https://youtu.be/JNewZIS3RjU?si=uHz98K2vdQkVb176 The Nobel of Architecture Every year at the beginning of March, a piece of news makes waves across the globe: the announcement of that year’s recipient of the Pritzker Prize. In common parlance,...
Musée Picasso, Paris: What Was Once Called “Degenerate Art”
https://youtu.be/nQP6SzCMsGM?si=m-P4w3ULbJUfj1EB Worst enemies of humanity If you think that art is frivolous or that the concerns of the avant-garde are trivial, you should know that, before you, the worst enemies of humanity in the 20th...
Hamish Bowles in Marrakech: The Magical Charge of Yves Saint Laurent’s Couture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWBBr4LFLL0 Objects of memory When it comes to ancient African art, the idea of an immaculate object is meaningless. They are works that bear the traces of experience, of ritual, of hands passing over...
Centre Pompidou, Suzanne Valadon, Spiritual Mother of Alice Neel
https://youtu.be/pqnNVOd4QII Model for Toulouse-Lautrec Art history remembers her first and foremost as a model, who posed during several years for illustrious painters like Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Henri de...
Mark Bradford in Berlin: What You See is Not What You Think It Is
https://youtu.be/UBykyt766Js?si=uzKRGMcUMBR7jSOz The roots At the root of art, you’ll find the roots of the artist. Many artists hold fast to their roots and their early struggles, transforming these experiences into creative fuel. Mark...
Fondation Cartier: the Dazzling Olga de Amaral. When the Canvas becomes the Artwork
https://youtu.be/jNxVe4K8ttg Challenging the easel Here, what constitutes the very substance of the canvas becomes the artwork by itself. Since the 1920s and the advent of the Bauhaus movement, it has been officially agreed upon that a...
Marrakech, Gateway to the African Art Market
Arab World, focal point As the Chinese art market becomes increasingly insular, it is the Arab world which has become the new focal point, the new El Dorado of the contemporary art market. In Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the second iteration of the...
Nan Goldin in Berlin: A Great Artist Loses Steam
https://youtu.be/YD5pYQiT1D4?si=ILLi5ZhibqJP6aPN Great artist A “great artist.” When a painter, photographer or sculptor is associated with this label, it’s because they gained recognition by inventing their own universe. The American artist...
Paris :The Unexpected Union of Markus Lüpertz and Aristide Maillol
https://youtu.be/fhKLQQAXlN0?si=Vrsb39QNWStT0bb6 Markus Lüpertz Just as gifted artists push us to look differently at life itself, they also help us see the art of others in a new light. Such is the case of Markus Lüpertz (born in 1941), a...
Guggenheim New York: 1912 — When Paris Turned Painting into Magic Circles
https://youtu.be/-_9MYKJa9XM?si=uNFHeFS-xmGDFuM9 Paris: creative effervescence A nest teeming with artists: Paris was, for nearly a century up until the Second World War, the global epicenter of an unusually creative effervescence. From Camille...
Chiharu Shiota at the New Grand Palais: She Uses Kilometers of Thread For Healing
https://youtu.be/oh2poy5-aJw Healing Artists possess a precious ability: they can heal themselves through their work. Take Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota (born 1972). She explains that when she decided to settle in Berlin—where she still lives...
London:The Making of Bacon’s Portraits like Real Life Pictures of Dorian Gray
https://youtu.be/4w_LrhEf9IE?si=hWT73BQgiHIRM_-E National portrait gallery There’s no better institution than the National Portrait Gallery in London to host a Francis Bacon (1909–1992) exhibition. Firstly, because this extraordinary painter...