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the mixed future of museums around the world
By Harry Bellet Posted today at 00h17 Reserved for our subscribers FactualClosures, layoffs, budget cuts… Institutions are comparing their solutions to avoid shipwreck and think about the post-pandemic. “When the…
talented narcissus and charismatic artist
The artist and director Julian Schnabel alongside Lou Reed, during a screening of "Before the Night" (2000), in Frankfurt (Germany), January 29, 2004. ARNE DEDERT / DPA / AFP Netflix On demand Documentary…
Photographer Sacha Goldberger fights to control the fate of his photos
Sacha Goldberger and "Mamika", in the role of the empress of great balance, during the making of the futuristic series "Louis CXIV", in September 2019, at La Plateform studios in Paris. ILANIT COHEN Sacha…
Daniel Cordier, an iconoclastic art lover
Daniel Cordier in New York in 1960. Daniel Cordier / Order of the Liberation At the origin of Daniel Cordier's love for painting, there is an artist named Romanin. It was the pseudonym chosen by Jean…
Picasso as conductor at the Philharmonie de Paris
“Harlequin with the Guitar” (1918), by Pablo Picasso. BPK / NATIONALGALERIE, SMB, MUSEUM BERGGRUEN / JENS ZIEHE / SUCCESSION PICASSO 2020 In a book published in 1966, the critic Hélène Parmelin attributes…
Gérard Fromanger deploys a “Painting-World” at the Bouffes du Nord
On the ceiling of the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, “Peinture-Monde” (2020), by Gérard Fromanger. Marc Domage Against a black background crossed by colored discs, two rows of colored silhouettes advance on…
At the Center Pompidou, Matisse open book
“Self-portrait” (1906), by Henri Matisse, oil on canvas, 55 x 46 cm, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen. ESTATE H. MATISSE / PHOTO: SMK PHOTO / JAKOB SKOU-HANSEN There are already some who are choosy:…
At auction, pre-Columbian art exerts a mysterious power of attraction …
Olmec mask in sage green jade with lustrous patina, approx. 900-300 BC J.-C. Christie's More than three millennia of history, a mosaic of cultures and very varied styles… Despite a vast temporal and…
Some works from the charity auction of contemporary African art
portfolio From October 28 to November 5, on the Maison Drouot website, 73 works offered free of charge by more than thirty artists from the continent will be on sale to support contemporary African art, battered by the Covid…
a charity auction to support artists from the continent
“In The Foret I”, by Soly Cissé. Acrylic and pastels on canvas, 2018 (150 cm x 150 cm). Estimate: from 12,000 euros to 15,000 euros. DR Support contemporary African artists in these times of the…