https://youtu.be/CSgG7HEBaAs An American Artist His name is Jordan Wolfson. You may not have heard of this American artist, born in 1980, but the New Yorker has just published an in-depth profile on him running to 28 pages. David Zwirner and...
Helena Rubinstein. In 1909 she was already buying the best in tribal art. The method behind a remarkable collection
From Krakow to New York Picture a Polish woman from Krakow born in 1872, daughter of a shopkeeper and granddaughter of a rabbi, who would go on to make her fortune in Australia by establishing a cosmetics brand, before travelling to Paris, New York and London. The...
Steve McQueen at the Tate Modern: the man with two brains
The filmaker There are certain rare people who seem to have two brains. This is the case of the English filmmaker and artist who lives in Amsterdam, Steve McQueen (born in 1969). Turner Prize In 1999 the video artist was awarded the Turner Prize, Britain’s highest...
Frieze LA: does art that appeals to the angels of entertainment run the risk of being too shallow?
( From Velvet Buzzsaw: "A bad review is better than sinking into the great glut of anonymity.) Art and entertainment industry Los Angeles may be a city rich in art, but it is first and foremost the city of what Americans refer to as the entertainment industry. Here...
Amid uncertainty in the art market from London to Hong Kong, Geneva is holding a small fair within a microclimate of thriving tranquillity
Quiet in January Usually in January the art market community is deemed to be quiet. New York in May This year it impatiently awaits the auctions that have received a lot of media coverage due to take place in May in New York, with works on sale by Rothko, Richter and...
Edward Hopper: Explore the American painter’s landscapes, like Barack Obama
In the Oval Office It was Barack Obama who, during his presidency, chose to hang two paintings in the Oval Office, one above the other. We recognized them as two views of Cape Cod, the coastal area which was a favourite of the Kennedys. More generally, they were two...
Ingres: a treasure trove of 4500 drawings that inspired the best of Picasso. Do you know Montauban?
Pilgrimage in Montauban Picasso didn’t wait for the invention of the high-speed train or the arrival of airliners when he specially embarked on the interminable journey three times to the little town of Montauban, situated 54 kilometres outside of Toulouse in the...
Francis Alÿs: video interview with the great nomadic artist on the occasion of his exhibition at Amsterdam’s Eye Museum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlbMXLQWvfg Walter Benjamin The visionary writer Walter Benjamin once said of Marcel Proust (1) that he admired “his astounding way of using the great poets’ method of taking their metaphors from everything that is close at hand...