https://youtu.be/ViGaTcP8XPw Travel hopefully “To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.” This famous phrase from Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson can be perfectly applied to the new large-scale exhibition at the Centre...
Arthur Jafa. Inside the meandering mind of the Golden Lion award-winner, from Caravaggio to Kanye West
https://youtu.be/YFhT55y8xLs Love is the message... Let’s use the big words: Arthur Jafa (born in 1960) is probably one of the most relevant artists of our time thanks to his creation of three films headed by “Love is the message. The message...
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris: Cindy Sherman, artist of extremes
https://youtu.be/FE3wDrJqe5o 170 arworks Too much is never enough. The Fondation Louis Vuitton is dedicating a retrospective of 170 artworks to the American artist Cindy Sherman (born in 1954). Overdose There is a risk of it...
Arthur Jafa about the black experience in America : ” Love is the message. The message is death”
https://youtu.be/iRPVvzwfR68 Injustice to a black man While the United States reverberates with violence over the injustice done to a black man, George Floyd, who died as a result of the racism of a police officer in Minneapolis who believed...
Acute Art: augmented reality and virtual reality from Kaws to Ai Weiwei, how a new kind of art is invading our homes now
Seen by tens of millions of people The figure has been seen and shared on social media over the past few days by tens of millions of people. It’s what’s known as an “art toy”, a figurine now sold as a work of art – we can also see it as a...
Tefaf, Maastricht: a spectacular antiques fair through hell and high water
An air of bleakness The world is at a standstill and it seems as though the love of art is unable to change anything. China aside, the announcement of the temporary closure of museums in Italy, the cancellation of the Art Basel Hong Kong fair and the fair in Dubai at...
Hans Ulrich Obrist goes green: resolutions and warnings. A video interview
https://youtu.be/ot4aupt4VkY History of contemporary art Swiss-born Hans Ulrich Obrist (born in 1968) is now part of the history of contemporary art. The artistic director of the Serpentine Gallery in London has become a phenomenon in his own right thanks to...
Arco Madrid: the whisper of a new “Movida” in the art market?
Troubled times Coronavirus, various regions in quarantine, political upheaval and economic uncertainty… Do people still want to buy art in these troubled times? And yet it’s against this backdrop that the first large-scale fair of the year, Arco Madrid, has opened...
William Kentridge talks about the absurdity of the world, historical bias, and the beauty of marching bands.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rprylIsrdUg South Africa William Kentridge was born in South Africa in 1955. Apartheid He therefore spent 40 years living under the notorious apartheid regime. He describes how at the time the only way of understanding society...
Marseille: Why it is important to exhibit Ai Weiwei
I am the curator of an exhibition dedicated to Ai Weiwei in Marseille, Ai Weiwei.Fan Tan at the spectacular museum designed by Rudy Ricciotti on the shores of the Mediterranean, the Mucem, which opened this week. Since the purpose of this blog is to communicate my...
Arthur Jafa in London and Washington: you won’t have seen such an exceptional video in a very long time
He’s a genius in the recent history of the moving image, and his vision in the film“Love is the message, the message is death” (2016) leaves no viewer unscathed. The short extracts which could be available to watch online give nothing away compared to the powerful...
Douglas Gordon: 5 answers in 50 seconds on love, wolves and the revolution from British art’s enfant terrible
Douglas Gordon (born in 1966) is a Scottish artist who is hypersensitive, sentimental, receptive, and capable of creating very beautiful images as well as very trashy ones. He won the Turner Prize in 1996 and the Hugo Boss Prize in 1998. He is a truly unpredictable...