https://youtu.be/KwssqQpCJEU The “weaker” sex One good thing about trends is that they can lead us to rediscover certain major artists who have spent too long under the radar. This is true of Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) who, within the official narrative of the early 20th century avant-garde, displays several handicaps: she was a woman, she […]
https://youtu.be/hbhprpFeE_0 Large scale and large number It must be the sensation of the season in Paris. At the Fondation Cartier, Damien Hirst (born in 1965), the superstar from the 1990s and former leader of the Young British Artists, is displaying his new work in his usual fashion – on a very large scale and […]
Art history and 21st century How does one invent a new way of painting in the 21st century? There are few artists who belong to this small group who have managed to come up with new alternatives, to sidestep or – better yet – to take a step forward in this unfolding […]
https://youtu.be/nVEw7ivxy_g A star in New York With enough experience, if not years, in the art world, one will inevitably have heard of Francesco Clemente since the late 1970s. He is a famous exponent of the Italian art movement known as the Transavangardia, which took up painting at a time when the practice was being […]
City of migration Palermo is a fascinating city, and one that’s sparked a lot of conversation in recent years. Firstly, this is due to its current international relevance as it’s one of the major sites of migration from Africa to Italy, where its mayor Leoluca Orlando, contrary to the nationalist discourse proliferating around the […]
American inferiority complex For a long time the United States suffered from an inferiority complex with regards to its painting. This was because despite America’s status as an economic powerhouse, up until the Second World War it was Paris – the global epicentre of artistic creation – that attracted all the talent. National art […]
( From Velvet Buzzsaw: “A bad review is better than sinking into the great glut of anonymity.) Art and entertainment industry Los Angeles may be a city rich in art, but it is first and foremost the city of what Americans refer to as the entertainment industry. Here everything begins and ends with cinema and […]
Francis Bacon Francis Bacon Francis Bacon Francis Bacon Francis Bacon Francis Bacon Francis Bacon Crucial days There are crucial days that can change your life forever. Take the British painter Francis Bacon. On 26 October 1971 he was the subject of a major exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris. Not only was it a […]
Gerhard Richter A Jeff Koons in front of the Guggenheim Bilbao The Guggenheim Bilbao The Gerhard Richter room at the Guggenheim Bilbao Gerhard Richter Gerhard Richter Gerhard Richter Gerhard Richter Gerhard Richter Gerhard Richter Gerhard Richter Gerhard Richter On minute in front of a masterpiece How long does one spend in front of a […]
Studio of Leonardo (detail) Studio of Leonardo Piero di Cosimo Sandro Botticelli Bartolomeo Veneto Studio of Leonardo? Studio of Leonardo? Carlo Antonio Procaccini? Anonymous painter after Leonardo François Clouet Anonymous painter around 1560 Endless speculation There’s been endless speculation in the media surrounding the nature and whereabouts of the Salvator Mundi, a heavily […]
Luc Tuymans Luc Tuymans Luc Tuymans Luc Tuymans Luc Tuymans Luc Tuymans Luc Tuymans Luc Tuymans Luc Tuymans Don’t stop at the subject When Cézanne painted his wife or a still life of some apples he didn’t just stop at the subject: a portrait of an unprepossessing woman or fruit arranged on a table… […]
MIchelangelo MIchelangelo MIchelangelo Bill Viola – Michelangelo Bill Viola Bill Viola Bill Viola Bill Viola Bill Viola Bill Viola Bill Viola Bill Viola Bill Viola Bill Viola and video art A single exhibition is not enough to form a definitive opinion of an artist. The American artist Bill Viola (born in 1951) is known […]
Pieter Bruegel the Elder Pieter Bruegel the Elder Pieter Bruegel the Elder Pieter Bruegel the Elder Pieter Bruegel the Elder Pieter Bruegel the Elder Pieter Bruegel the Elder Pieter Bruegel the Elder Pieter Bruegel the Elder Pieter Bruegel the Elder Certain figures take their place in the art history pantheon because they’ve invented something new. […]
Julian Schnabel Julian Schnabel, H de Toulouse Lautrec Claude Monet, Julian Schnabel Vincent Van Gogh Van Gogh, Julian Schnabel Julian Schnabel Julian Schnabel Henri de Toulouse Lautrec Edouard Manet Paul Cézanne Paul Gauguin Julian Schnabel Julian Schnabel Julian Schnabel Julian Schnabel At Eternity’s gate At Eternity’s gate At Eternity’s gate At Eternity’s gate I met […]
Donna Huanca Donna Huanca Donna Huanca Donna Huanca Donna Huanca Donna Huanca Donna Huanca Donna Huanca Donna Huanca There are names that circulate in the contemporary art world which resemble little refrains that get stuck in your head. You hear them here and there at art fairs and museums on the other side of the […]
Andy Warhol at the Whitney Andy Warhol Andy Warhol Andy Warhol Andy Warhol Andy Warhol Andy Warhol Andy Warhol Andy Warhol Andy Warhol Andy Warhol Andy Warhol Andy Warhol Andy Warhol Andy Warhol Even though Andy Warhol may not have had the museum namesake he deserved in New York – only Pittsburgh […]
Sean Scully Oisin Scully Sean Scully Sean Scully Sean Scully ‘s studio Sean Scully @Blain/ Southern Sean Scully Sean Scully Sean Scully (detail) Sean Scully @ Hirshhorn At Sean Scully’s home Art Sean Scully’s home Art Sean Scully’s home Sean Scully (born in 1945) cuts an imposing figure. Tall in stature, he moves slowly. His […]
Giovanni Bellini Giovanni Bellini Andrea Mantegna Andrea Mantegna Giovanni Bellini Giovanni Bellini The museums with the richest collections of paintings always stage the most beautiful temporary exhibitions of Old Masters art. This is, quite simply, because these collections constitute a great currency of exchange. But it’s also because they naturally attract the most knowledgeable curators […]
