Art Of The Day Weekly

#165 - from 11 March 2010 to 17 March 2010


Théodore Géricault, L'enlèvement de Fualdès, ca., 1818 brown ink on pencil, 20,9x26,6cm, Paris, musée du Louvre © RMN / Jean-Gilles Berizzi (exhibition at musée d'Orsay, Paris)

IN THE AIR

Art and politics

LONDON – The Tate Modern has announced the next installation in the Turbine Hall, as of 10 October 2010, will be entrusted to Ai Weiwei, one of the most famous Chinese artists (born in 1957), whose creations are generally iconoclastic. In 1995, he broke a thousand-year-old Han urn (the photograph that shows the event, printed in eight copies, is negotiated at more [Read]

EXHIBITIONS

Blood on the canvas

PARIS – One of the initiators of this exhibition is former French Minister of Justice Robert Badinter, a detail that in itself is not very [Read]

Freud, in camera

PARIS – One thing is sure: Lucian Freud is not the painter of open spaces (unless you consider our psyche as an open space, which it certainly [Read]

Artoftheday also recommends…

FAIRS

Tefaf dabbles in paper

MAASTRICHT – It is difficult to ignore Tefaf. It has positioned itself as the major fair in antique and modern art, and in furniture, [Read]

AUCTIONS

Almasy, a humanist photographer

PARIS – His portrait of the god of Surrealism broke a record during the Breton sale in 2003 (3800 €). Maybe it was a question of fetishism… [Read]

ARTIST OF THE WEEK

Gerald Roberts: from advertising to art

It is not rare to go from advertising or fashion to painting. But well-known artistic directors do not necessarily repeat their past [Read]

BOOKS

Cardin in pictures

He is at the head of an empire which he checks on constantly. At 88, Pierre Cardin is in his office every day, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, [Read]

See all previous issues

Every Thursday