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January 2023

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Artificial art: art or no art?

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With artificial intelligence (AI) software in the spotlight, and with the latter extending its scope to art, we turn to the question:...
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André Devambez knows how to take the high road

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About the exhibition "André Devambez - Vertiges de l'imagination", on view until 31 December 2022 at the Petit Palais, Paris. Of course,...
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Cristina Iglesias' new "bedroom".

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About the participation of Cristina Iglesias in the exhibition "De la nature" which is held at the museum of Grenoble until March...
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Terroir painting is popular

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About the increasing number of exhibitions devoted by museums to artists from their region. We are not only witnessing the revenge of...
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Still life is not dead

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About the exhibition "Les Choses" held at the Louvre Museum in Paris until 23 January 2023. Victor Hugo himself wrote as much...
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Serbian contemporary art without borders

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About the emerging art scene in Belgrade and Mrdan Bajic's exhibition at MoCaB. Did you know that Serbia is a booming scene...
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Proust's search for never-lost works of art

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Not one of Marcel Proust's (1871-1922) novels is without works of art! This art accompanied the entire life of the man who...
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Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp: after 11 years of closure, let there be light!

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About the reopening on 24 September 2022 of the renovated and expanded KMSKA, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp. Let's go...
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Paris + by Art Basel: back to the future

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About the works for sale on the stands of art galleries at the Paris + international contemporary art fair held from 20...

December 2022

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Bright and vibrant Sally Gabori

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About the exhibition "Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori" which runs until 6 November at the Fondation Cartier in Paris. She was a weaver...
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In the light of Joan Mitchell

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About the double exhibition devoted to Joan Mitchell by the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris until 27 February 2022: "Joan Mitchell Retrospective"...
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The AfriCOBRA spirit is still alive in Chicag

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About the Expo Chicago fair and the city's artistic buzz since AfriCOBRA. The contemporary art magazine Artpress looks back this month at...
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Was the painter Walter Sickert Jack the Ripper?

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About the exhibition "Walter Sickert. Peindre et transgresser", which is being held at the Petit Palais, Paris, until 29 January 2023. Let's...
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The subversive radicalism of Oskar Kokoschka

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About the exhibition "Oska Kokoschka, a Fauve in Vienna", which runs until 12 February 2023 at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris....
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Alice Neel's painting photographs humanity

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About the "Alice Neel" exhibition at the Centre Pompidou until 16 January 2023. At last, Alice Neel (1900-1984) is installed at the...
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Auction of the Century" announced for November

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About the sale at Christie's in New York of the collection of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, estimated at more than one billion...
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Swiss precision to revive the Paris International Contemporary Art Fair

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About the first edition of Paris + by Art Basel, held in Paris from 20 to 23 October. Last week made Paris...
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Art: White flag?

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Can art be considered simply as the expression of beauty, be entirely focused on beauty and express its quintessence? Can art do...

November 2022

October 2022

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The tragic power of Berlinde de Bruyckere

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About the monographic exhibition held at MO.CO in Montpellier (34) until 2 October. Vulnerable, ephemeral, alone, dying... The monumental beings seen by...
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Luxury hotels sow contemporary art in their gardens

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About the MITICO exhibition born from the partnership between the Galleria Continua and the Italian hotels of the Belmond group. Do you...
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Manifesta 14 veut laisser des traces au Kosovo

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About the European nomadic biennial Manifesta 14, which takes place in Pristina, the capital of Kosovo, until 30 October 2022. Manifesta 14,...
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Le musée de Cahors a doublé de volume !

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About the reopening last May of the Henri-Martin Museum in Cahors. As part of the Year of Denmark in Cahors (46), sixty...
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Soutine and others at the mythical Museum of Modern Art in Céret

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About the exhibition "The School of Paris (1900-1939). Chagall, Modigliani, Soutine & Cie, collections of the Centre Pompidou" at the Museum of...
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An estuary in the form of an artery gallery

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About the monumental sculptures sown from Nantes to Saint-Nazaire and the Voyage à Nantes, the summer edition of which runs until 11...
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Louis Gauffier: a short life but an eternal work

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About the exhibition "Louis Gauffier's Journey to Italy", on view until 4 September at the Musée Fabre in Montpellier (34) and then...
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"For me, Magritte is not a surrealist".

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About the Belgian painter Luc Tuymans, whose first solo exhibition in Paris took place this summer at the Zwirner Gallery. Obviously, Luc...
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