https://youtu.be/7qy3KJRXkS0 Strange and glorious The American artist David Hammons (born in 1943) is a strange and glorious figure, frequently absent, yet always seeming to appear where he’s least expected. He isn’t affiliated with any one...
Tacita Dean at the Pinault collection: a new milestone in the history of art and film
https://youtu.be/lcQghJQVwRw The extraordinary new production of Video art Video art, like painting or sculpture, is an extraordinary mode of expression and one that is widely explored in the contemporary period. Two great artists have created...
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...
NFTs: understanding the very promising marriage of blockchain and the conventional art market
Technological progress and art history https://youtu.be/TejoBQ71Sv4 Contrary to all commonly held assumptions, art history is closely linked to the history of technological progress. It is said, for example, that Vermeer made use of the...
Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza has created a new frontier for art: the Ocean
https://youtu.be/XPCRNcp-bh4 Seal levels One of the barrage of threats to contemporary mankind is the threat of rising sea levels. Threat in Venice They say this will be such that by the end of the century it is due to trigger the...
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...
Jonas Mekas: A tribute. 9 answers in 90 seconds from the extraordinary inventor of the diary film
The legendary counterculture figure Jonas Mekas died on 22 January 2019. We are republishing a tribute to this magnificent underground filmmaker, whom I interviewed in 2018 and who inspired Andy Warhol, among others, during the 1960s. Ever curious about new filming...
Peter Campus: When America fails to recognise one of its own geniuses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tpuBstGmFs In art, even contemporary art, chronology matters. In other words, who did what before whom. To give you an example, in 1915 the entire world from Russia to Germany, passing through Montevideo, was doing...
Hadjithomas and Joreige: on being Lebanese and artists today
What does it mean to be a political artist in this day and age? I can already see readers deliberating whether to close their screens… But don’t go anywhere, this won’t be boring. The most high profile political artist working today is Ai Weiwei. He posts, tweets, and...
Yang Fudong: the Chinese masterpiece of the 2000s at Fondation Louis Vuitton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4INLxy-ztgI Once upon a time, a country the size of a continent was slowly throwing off the shackles of authoritarianism. Citizens were beginning to travel abroad, accumulate possessions, launch new enterprises, and come...