Garbage, Things and Art
Put a matchbox on a pedestal in a museum and people will look at it as art. Throw the same matchbox away on the street, and it is rubbish. The museum context makes all the difference in how we look at things. We look from the fire extinguisher in the corner of the...
Poor Kabakovs!
If you were asked to name a well-known living Russian artist, the first you would probably mention is Ilya Kabakov (if any of course). As an artist, Ilya works with his wife Emilia, and together, as the Kabakovs, they are not only world-famous but as such, they are...
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Vlees en vis in vele kleuren
Dode hazen en fazanten, gevilde ossen ontdaan van ingewanden, onthoofde ganzen, opgehangen kippen en diverse soorten vis: je verwacht ze eerder op een grote en goed gesorteerde overdekte markt in Frankrijk dan op een kleine tentoonstelling in het Joods Museum in New...
it’s on
Today you can go from Frieze to Art New York, then visit TEFAF and go to Christie's, all in one day! In case you don't know what to buy, here's a rock-solid advice for free: buy Malevich! There are very few real ones on the market, but these two are real. For sure....
Back, but not in the USSR
Just before we got on the plane, a Dutch bank warned the passengers of the flight to Moscow for the shock they were to experience three hours later. And yes, this time, Russia turns out to be a very strange country indeed. It might be because I am on the wagon in a...
Вперёд, вперёд, без остановки !
The exhibition is not open yet, but here's a preview for those who want to know what the exhibition is about. Anyone interested in the society part of the preview this evening may be advised to visit the FB pages of Nic Iljine. Here I will quickly take you through the...
по-русски
Конечно, вы также можете прочитать его на русском языке.
The party goes on !
Marc Chagall, Paysage cubiste, 1919 Huile, tempera, mine graphite, enduit sur toile,100 × 59 cm Collection Centre Pompidou, musée national d’art moderne Photo : Ph. Migeat/Dist. RMN/GP © Adagp, Paris 2018 The Old Pembroke Library There is not only an exhibition on...
Et ça n’arrête pas ici !
Today I received the catalogue of our exhibition. Nicely done and well in time for distribution. That is: in the French speaking countries, because the book is in French only. Of course French as Lingua Franca will return to Europe once the United Kingdom has left us....