The 90s at Tate Britain: Edward Enninful Restages the Decade That Rewired British Culture
Tate Britain’s new exhibition, guest-curated by Edward Enninful, brings nearly 70 artists, photographers and designers into one room-by-room argument: that in 1990s Britain, art and fashion became a single cultural force.
Sculpting Colour at the Louvre: Spain’s Painted Saints Step Out of Zurbarán’s Shadow
Twenty-three polychrome wood sculptures from Valladolid’s national museum, among them a complete life-size processional paso by Gregorio Fernández, open in the Hall Napoléon beside the Zurbarán retrospective. The pairing is the point.
Mary Cassatt at Orsay: A Centenary Tribute France Owed Her
The Musée d’Orsay opens the first major exhibition the French national museums have devoted to Mary Cassatt, a century after her death — and reads her career through the one word she claimed for herself: independent.
Zurbarán at the Louvre: The Painter of Silence Takes the Hall Napoléon
From 7 October the Louvre, with the National Gallery and the Art Institute of Chicago, stages a retrospective of Francisco de Zurbarán — and ends it, tellingly, with Manet, Picasso and Gris.
André Teymouri on Painting Men Who Don’t Exist
André Teymouri paints from a small set of fragments — a jawline glimpsed on the subway, a beard seen on the street, a stranger’s photo on Instagram — and lets them settle into a face that belongs to no one in particular. The men in his paintings are bearded, broad-shouldered, often shirtless, and almost always […]
Nicole Meeuws on Painting After a Near-Death Experience
Nicole Meeuws had never painted. In 2015, a medical emergency in an Austrian hospital brought her close to death, and she returned with what she describes as vivid memories of somewhere else. Painting followed. It was not a plan. Ten years on, she works from northern Greece, near Drama. The canvases are built dot by […]
Nicolas Lebedel on Publishing Ferdowsi’s Shâhnâmeh as Pop-Up Art
A conversation with the founder of Les Rêveurs, the small French publishing house that has spent nine years turning the Persian national epic into hand-built paper engineering — with a third and final volume launching this October. In the spring of 2016, Nicolas Lebedel was flipping through a foreign-rights catalogue from Fantagraphics — the American […]
France’s €792 Million Investment in Culture: How Tax Incentives Are Reshaping the Creative Economy
France has long been recognized as one of the world’s leading cultural powers, and France’s cultural tax credits are an increasingly important part of that story. From internationally acclaimed museums and historic monuments to its globally influential film industry, the country’s commitment to culture has become a defining part of its national identity. Behind this […]
In conversation with Arnaud Pagnier, Partner at Magna Gallery Paris
At the intersection of contemporary Korean art, ceramics, and the historic atmosphere of Paris’s Carré Rive Gauche, this interview explores the curatorial vision behind Magna Gallery Paris — a space where East and West, tradition and contemporary creation, quietly enter into dialogue.
Discovering the Artistic Universe of Louis-Ange Maucarré
Between Heritage and Creation: A Conversation with Louis-Ange Maucarré In contemporary art, innovation is often associated with breaking away from tradition. Yet for some artists, true originality does not emerge from rejecting the past. Instead, it comes from entering into a meaningful dialogue with it. Among them is Louis-Ange Maucarré, a French painter. His work […]