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Duchamp and the creative act
Marcel Duchamp made a presentation in Houston (Texas) in 1957 in front of the Conference of the American Federation of the Arts. This presentation was published in the magazine Art News (volume 56, n 4, summer 1957), and we are going to present what was his theory on the creative […]
Artists’ have structurally different brains’?
Brain scans revealed artists have more grey matter in parts of their brains Artists have structurally different brains compared with non-artists, a study has found: participants’ brain scans revealed that artists had increased neural matter in areas relating to fine motor movements and visual imagery. The research, published in NeuroImage, […]
Paris, Paris, Paris
The first article publied in this blog, on May 28th 2011, has this title:’Paris will always stay in us…’And I wrote that: “For decades the Europeans, and we Catalans do not make an exception to it, considered Paris as the lighthouse for art, transgression and creativity … It is true […]
An Introduction to the American Art
The vitality and the international presence of a big country can also be measured in the field of culture. This is why Statesmen, and more generally the leaders, always have the objective and concern to leave for posterity or to strengthen big cultural institutions. As proof of this we can […]
Obama’s art army
The most political exhibition in the most political city in America currently occupies the circular galleries of the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC. As the US was preparing to vote, the Hirshhorn has been showing work by Chinese artist and agitator Ai Weiwei, an exhibition that includes a load of […]
Art / Money
To the question ‘what is there in common to artists, gallery owners and collectors?’ some people will answer ’art’, others say ‘money’ and everybody will be right. Both books of Anne Martin-Fugier ‘Collectors’ (Actes Sud, 2012) and of Judith Benhamou-Huet, ‘Artists always loved money ‘ ( Grasset) have a common […]
The artist as collector
Not all artists are collectors per se -many are simply gifted works by other artists in their circle, but some, like Tom Phillips (with an encyclopedic collection of African goldweights), are accomplished at both pursuits. At last year’s ‘Paris Tableau’ we saw a special exhibition of works from the collection […]
Towards Asia
The annual turnover of auctions sales of art’s works in the world jumped by 21 % in 2011 (a crisis? what crisis?), reaching an unprecedented 11.54 billion dollar level (8.7 billion euro). And China is leading with a market share above 41 % (!), according to data published by the […]
To help the artists
When I meet someone in charge in the culture field or a cultural manager, especially in the field of the visual arts, he says to me invariably and immediately two things: that does not have money and that it is necessary to help the artists, who, he adds, have a […]
The art can show everything?
It seems already well established that art does not have to show everything, but CAN it show everything? Nowadays, as for all periods in our history, there are controversies, debates, and divergent positions; this is why I would like to express here my opinion. Let us ask one question beforehand: […]