Viva Venice 🎭
One week in May 2017: 40 country pavilions; six collateral events and other pavilions; seven temporary exhibitions, 120km walked, and 10 ice creams (various flavours). A bank holiday weekend in […]
Walker Evans, la beauté de l’américanité banale
Evans, le photographe du vernaculaire américain Présenté actuellement au Centre Pompidou, Walker Evans (1903-75) est le photographe du vernaculaire. Il est difficile de s’accorder sur une seule définition du vernaculaire. […]
Hockney’s Hotel California in Paris
Decades of Hockney’s paintings, drawings, prints, photography and video at the Centre Pompidou Perhaps not surprisingly, I am fonder of David Hockney’s paintings in California, to which he was drawn […]
Giacometti at Tate: a significant sculptor in the universe
Works stem from Existentialism; looking at man’s significance in a meaningless universe Giacometti had a revelation as he was leaving a cinema in Montparnasse in December 1945. As the screen […]
Robert Rauschenberg six-decade experiments
First posthumous retrospective covering six decades of Rauschenberg The Museum of Modern Art, New York, is holding the first posthumous retrospective of Robert Rauschenberg (October 22, 1925, Port Arthur, […]
Elton John’s Radical Eye
“The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as the pen”, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. For a few days in London, we […]
Les Roses de Fantin Latour
Roses (détail), 1889, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon Hommage au Musée du Luxembourg en > 150 oeuvres Sur Les Roses de Fantin-Latour, le poète Paul Claudel a écrit : “Chaque tableau […]
Ceci n’est pas un article sur Magritte
Mystère, représentation et philosophie, un angle inédit J’ai vu l’expo la plus attendue de la rentrée : Magritte au Centre Pompidou. L’exposition offre une approche inédite du peintre surréaliste belge, […]
The Greatest Hits of AbEx
Abstract Expressionism was a phenomenon “Wow… wow…” said my art husband ‘J’, as we moved from room to room, “the Royal Academy exhibition is the “greatest hits” of Abstract Expressionism”. […]
Flowers & skulls
Flowers = symbol of eroticism? This year, I learnt that flowers are a symbol of eroticism (Georgia O’Keeffe at Tate, Dorothea Tanning at Alison Jacques, Araki at Musée Guimet). Critics, […]
