Tag: Arts
The exhibition to see: Warhol and Basquiat, from a Polaroid to paintings with four hands
“A successful collaboration is always the result of a successful relationship”, noted Keith Haring, in the fall of 1988, about the joint works of Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, two…
“African Masks”: Basquiat, Warhol and Africa
This is one of the most astonishing and disturbing aspects of the 160 canvases painted together in a record time of two years by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol: the…
Simcoe Lions donate to Starr Gallery at Lynnwood Arts
The Simcoe Lions have donated $5,000 to the Starr Gallery at Lynnwood Arts, dedicated to a champion of the arts community. Kim Shippey, executive director of Lynnwood Arts, said Starr…
Isamu Noguchi, the moving body sculptor
Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) comes from a double culture, born of the liaison between the American journalist-author Léonie Gilmour and the Japanese poet Yonejiro Noguchi. The relationship ends in a phantom…
between Pablo Picasso and African art, a story of inspiration
On April 8, 1973, Pablo Picasso put down his brush for the last time. 50 years later, the Spanish painter leaves behind him an abundant work, rich in tens of…
an “incredible exhibition”, according to Egyptologist Bénédicte Lhoyer
The largest exhibition ever organized on the greatest of the pharaohs takes place until September 6, 2023 at the Grande Halle de La Villette, in Paris. “Ramses and the Gold…
“that other artist who would be Basquiatwarhol”
When the shooting star Jean-Michel Basquiat, who came from street art, the first black painter recognized by critics, who died at the age of 27 following an overdose, meets the…
Rediscovering the sculptor Antoine Bourdelle in his restored workshop
/ Podcasts / Cultural meeting The shadow cast by Auguste Rodin would almost make us forget that Antoine Bourdelle was also a renowned sculptor at the turn of the 19th…
Beya Gille Gacha, a Bamileke pearl
It’s a pearl. An artist who, in her work, combines African and European refinement. Moreover, the pearl speaks. She speaks of mixed-race art, not false, since we owe it to…
The exhibition to see: Matisse and “Les Cahiers d’art”, the turn of the 1930s
“In front of the canvas, I have no idea”, wrote Henri Matisse on November 21, 1929, a few weeks before his sixtieth birthday. His paintings then translate his difficulty and…