In January 2022, the Paris art market landscape was suddenly upended, when the FIAC was replaced by Art Basel, under the aegis of the MCH group. An initial assessment of the eagerly awaited first edition of Paris+ in late October.
Lee Ufan Arles has just opened in the Hôtel Vernon, a hôtel particulier (private mansion) where his minimalist works are in their element. A look back at this sumptuous collection that embodies the essence of his philosophy.
There has recently been renewed interest in the sculptor and ceramist, who died last year at 96. The price of her works is rising steadily, as witnessed by the sale of her studio contents—with a world record to boot.
Jeffrey Sturges is the Director of Exhibitions at the Estate of Tom Wesselmann. In conjunction with the exhibition “Tom Wesselmann: After Matisse” at the Almine Rech Gallery, we spoke with him about Wesselmann’s practice and the artist’s life-long admiration for Matisse.
The success of this printed landscape created on a tablet computer by the British artist, now living in Normandy, attests to changing artistic mentalities.
A champion of abstract art, Florent Paumelle has been running the Oniris gallery in Rennes, which was founded by his mother when he was a teenager, since 2012.
2021 marked the German painter’s recovery in the market, when he was crowned the world’s best-performing living artist at auction, according to Artprice.
With MoMA and the Art Institute of Chicago recently acquiring some of her works, Nigerian-born artist Toyin Ojih Odutola is enjoying a meteoric rise in the auction house at age 36.
There is nothing quite like the Arles cultural center, an offshoot of the Zurich-based foundation created by philanthropist Maja Hoffmann. Its emblem is the tower designed by Frank Gehry, which acts as both an exhibition venue and a space for artistic and scientific work.
At the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, the American artist Laura Owens has created an immersive environment that showcases seven works by Vincent van Gogh made at the end of his life in and around Arles.
Scottish superstar Peter Doig placed 75th in Art Price 2020’s overall rankings. His prices have remained stable despite Covid.
Originally set for April 30 to May 3, Monaco Art Week (MAW) is taking place from July 13 to 18, overlapping with artmonte-carlo, which will be at the Grimaldi Forum from July 15 to 17.
Leading Goodman Gallery’s first US venture in East Hampton, New York, Denis Gardarin gives us an insight into his rich career, passion for working with artists, and creating gender parity in the commercial art world.
Several works from a therapist’s collection in Angers, France, trace French artist François Morellet’s development.
In his studio in Sète the 79-year-old French artist, a founding member of the Supports/Surfaces group, looks back on his complex career and a philosophy that endlessly questions painting and its future.
Two artists and prophets of their time, one was collected by Louis-Charles Libaude (1896-1922), the other appeared with an unexpected bronze, an alliance formed and took flight.
Initially scheduled for January 23, the opening of the Pinault collection’s new flagship museum in the former Paris Bourse de Commerce building had been delayed by the lockdown. We examined the architecture of this structure rooted in history.
Martine and Léon Cligman have donated their 900-work collection to the Royal Abbey of Our Lady of Fontevraud (Anjou), creating a unique modern art museum. How the works are displayed will determine sensitive formal, chromatic and intuitive harmonies.
In 1970, when the contemporary art scene was obsessed with the “death of painting”, a dozen of young artists declared their love for the venerable medium and formed the group Supports/Surfaces. Stripped from the non-essential, painting was to be rejuvenated, not sentenced to death.
The 19th-century German scientist, who coined the word “ecology,” is one of the heroes of Laura Bossi’s exhibition “Origins of the World” at the Musée D’Orsay in Paris, awaiting its reopening since December. We look at the role his Art Forms in Nature plays in the decorative arts, from Art Nouveau to design today.
The 19th-century German scientist, who coined the word “ecology,” is one of the heroes of Laura Bossi’s exhibition “Origins of the World” at the Musée D’Orsay in Paris, awaiting its reopening since December. We look at the role his Art Forms in Nature plays in the decorative arts, from Art Nouveau to design today.
The founder of the Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation, collector Durjoy Rahman puts all his energy into promoting artists from his country and South Asia
Conor Harrington is fortunate to be able to express himself on walls around the world, but his work seldom goes under the hammer on this side of the Channel.
The Emirates are hosting one of the first physical fairs of the year.
This spring, Emmanuel Perrotin will open his ninth space in the heart of Paris’s Golden Triangle focusing on the purchase and resale of works on the secondary market. Contemporary art galleries are increasingly taking on this double role.
The squabble between the Louvre and the Cy Twombly Foundation over the renovation of the Salle des Bronzes, whose ceiling the artist frescoed in 2010, might be a run-in whose full flavor is only relished by Parisians and New Yorkers.
