https://youtu.be/dYxajiWeE1E?si=Vlo8CQrkLFyll6Es The artmarket The art market can sometimes have a decisive influence on the way we perceive artists. That could well have happened with the American painter George Condo (born 1957), a star of...
Maja Hoffmann, founder of LUMA Arles: “A feeling of accomplishment? No!”
https://youtu.be/bKHToaaECbs?si=i93jaTWjeoMbxI6z 10th anniversary To celebrate the of Judith Benhamou Reports, I asked five leading figures in the art world to speak to us in public: Hans Ulrich Obrist, Maja Hoffmann, Glenn Lowry, Rirkrit...
Glenn Lowry, President of MoMA for 30 years: “I never felt completely American”
https://youtu.be/hHgVqbSemng?si=KnuNcWtDrnn9-6n2 10th anniversary To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Judith Benhamou Reports, not only did I have our website logo redesigned and brought back to life by the highly talented graphic designer Yorgo Tloupas, founder of...
The Fondation Cartier returns to the heart of things — to the Palais Royal — with an architectural tour de force by Jean Nouvel
https://youtu.be/YlIWVJ8Ul7c Multidirectional vision Something remarkable happens when you arrive at this museum. Our gaze embraces everything — or almost everything — across three levels. The visitor is astonished by this multidirectional and...
Fondation Louis Vuitton: The Genius of Gerhard Richter on a Grand Scale
https://youtu.be/zxItYejrUOI Magic There is a certain magic that exceptional artists possess — the ability to renew their vocabulary endlessly while remaining unmistakably themselves. It is not so much that they crave novelty; rather,...
Bourse de Commerce in Paris: Minimal, But Not Quite
https://youtu.be/oiqjrU6ZFY8 François Pinault Season after season in Paris — and in Venice at the Punta della Dogana and the Palazzo Grassi — the Pinault Collection’s program continues to reveal different facets of the vast ensemble amassed by...
Irving Penn: A Historic Sale
https://youtu.be/k71kMCpGtt0?si=RZafvMibrTPPueHn Stylist of the female image Among the pantheon of modern fashion photographers stand two American talents turned legends: Richard Avedon (1923–2009) and Irving Penn (1917–2009). Among their many...
The Return of Madame X: John Singer Sargent’s Radical Icon at the Musée d’Orsay
https://youtu.be/S1NHvbciBFY?si=3FSAGe-7heUC0dcX Madame X and Princess X The title of the work is Madame X. Imagine a fashionable artist pretending to anonymize, in this way, the portrait of a well-known woman. The effect is guaranteed. In...
Bando, the Forgotten Franco-Japanese Modern Master, Is Rediscovered at Auction in Paris
Like Van Gogh “It is not because I sell little that I am a bad painter.” On August 22, 1882, Vincent van Gogh closed a letter to his brother Theo with these words, complaining of the hurtful remarks of a shortsighted art dealer. As he...
Georges de La Tour and There Was Light: The Mystical Beauty of Chiaroscuro in Paris
https://youtu.be/0Y81nKHGEMA?si=7njVbwZrhaV82n9T Light obsession For painters, light is an obsession. It is what gives life to a picture, sometimes to the point of provoking a mystical response.(Take for instance the light in Cézanne paintings,...
When Giants Converse: The encounter of Lee Ufan and Michelangelo Pistoletto
https://youtu.be/9NV4pUxSQE4 In Lee Ufan Arles Through October 5, Lee Ufan Arles—the institution that the Korean artist opened in 2022 in the Camargue—presents “A Conversation Piece,” a dialogue between his own work and that of Michelangelo...
Frieze Seoul: in Seoul, the Soft Power Platform Faces the Art Market Crisis
Morning calm and soft power If there is one country that has mastered the art of soft power, it is South Korea. In just a few years, the “Land of Morning Calm” has become a global cultural reference point, especially for younger generations....