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December 2021

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Giving a contemporary work for Christmas

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The festive season is approaching and no matter what happens in the news, it is always important to celebrate this special time...
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Give a contemporary painting for Christmas: an original gift idea!

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What if you dared to give a work of art to a loved one? For birthdays, weddings, retirements and especially for the...
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Maurice Denis raises the debate

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About the exhibition Maurice Denis - Bonheur rêvé Until 29 May 2022 Why stop at this painting by Maurice Denis entitled Eve...
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Serge Youriévitch sculpts the tastes of networks

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About the 1933 Sacha Lyo Dancer sculpture that is a hit on Instagram Who said that sculpture was no longer in the...
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The 5 senses of art according to Pierre Huyghe

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About the exhibition Afuer Uumwelt - Gande Halle of the LUMA Foundation in Arles Until 31 October 2021 The words with which...
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Botticelli Neoplatonic

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About the Botticelli Artist and Designer exhibition at the Musée Jacquemart-André   Until January 24th 2022 Everyone knows the Birth of Venus. And...
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Did Christo make art?

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About the Arc de Triomphe packaging Since 12 September It was easy to be artistically embraced by Christo in the 1980s.  It...
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The Kid's black eye

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About the exhibition that the Templon gallery is currently devoting to the artist It starts badly. To introduce us to the Kid,...
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Dhewadi Habjab as a self-aware Hopper

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About a painting by the artist placed in majesty in the church of Saint-Eustache Until 12/12/2021 There is undoubtedly something special about...
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Fiac well over?

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About the largest contemporary art exhibition in Paris - October 21-24 Chic la Fiac is back! Beaux-arts will be able to tell...
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Bernard Aubertin nailed in the red

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About the exhibition Bertrand Aubertin - À feu et à sang at the Bonisson Art Center in Rognes - Until 3/02/2022 Making...
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Trevor Paglen opens your eyes

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How does our time invite us to see the world? about an interview with the artist by Richard Leydier How does our...
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The pictorial design of Fabien Cappello

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About the invitation to the Chevalier gallery from the most Mexican of French designers. Who says we don't like design? It is...
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Johan Papaconstantino and the Eros of selfies

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About the exhibition at Confort Moderne in Poitiers Until 19/12/2021 What is the point of considering the execution of a painting in...
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How to use social networks to promote yourself?

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Art should normally be situated outside any marketing logic. Nevertheless, artists need to share their work in order to make a living...

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VUpourVous Septembre 2021

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L’Arc de triomphe empaqueté par Jeanne-Claude et Christo Œuvre éphémère, visible jusqu’au 3 octobre sur la place de l’Etoile piétonnisée 25 000...
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How to estimate the value of a work and set a fair price?

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A work of art has no real practical use; it cannot be compared to everyday utilitarian objects such as a car or...
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Eye to eye with Oursler

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The poster for the exhibition devoted to him by the Nantes Museum of Art might lead us to believe that Tony Oursler...
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Flat sculpture?

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What is the state of sculpture today? Very little is said about today's sculptural works on trendy rooftops and in social salons....
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The end of the social in art?

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Very nice article by Catherine Francblin in Art Press for all those who wish to understand the issues underlying the current discourse...
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Corpet says fuck you

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Which way will you hang this painting? If this question does not arise with the Mona Lisa or the Lacemaker, it does...
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How to love Beuys in 2021

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" Profession: artist. Mentality: activist".  ARTactif could not remain indifferent to this title of an article devoted by Connaissance des Arts to...
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Bickerton surfer prov

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A true artist sometimes surprises us even more with his words than with his works. We may not have grasped the deeper...
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From face to face

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We have all seen a painting by Alexej von Jawlensky. But we don't necessarily remember his name. Even if we immediately think...
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La cosa mentale* of Moninot

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Not everyone likes to consider a work of art as a work of the mind. Connaissance des Arts is aware of this,...
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What's new in Arles?

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Is photography doomed to be spoken of so often in the past tense? Obviously, every photograph is, in essence, a past moment,...
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