The Mark Rothko abstract painting “Orange, Red, Yellow” has set a new auction record for contemporary art, fetching nearly $87 million in a sale that showed the strength of the art market despite global economic gloom.
The exhibition "Madame Fisscher", in Venice's Palazzo Grassi, offers a journey through Urs Fisscher’s artistic career from the 1990s to today. Fisscher is an up-and-coming Swiss artist born in 1973. This show inaugurates a new cycle of one-man exhibitions staged by businessman and art sponsor François Pinault. At the centre of it is a nude model who walks around, embodying time.
“Bomb”, “guns”, “jailed”, “killed”, “hell.” Over the past few years the iconic art duo Gilbert and George have collected more than 3,500 London newspaper sellers’ posters, cataloguing them according to the words which kept cropping up. France 24’s art critic Sean Rose looks at their latest exhibition which shows a society fixated on violence, sex and money.
Civilisations and contemporary art come together in a fascinating exhibition of mankind’s worldwide relationship with the world around him. France 24’s art critic Sean Rose takes us on a bewitching journey around "The Masters of Chaos" at the Quai Branly museum in Paris, where we come face to face with shamans and witchdoctors.
Born in Bristol in 1965, Damien Hirst is one of the most prominent artists of his generation. He was part of a group called Young British Artists, or YBAs, who graduated from Goldsmiths College in the late 80s and were supported by Charles Saatchi, co-founder of advertising agency Saatchi and Saatchi.
Michelle Williams talks about the challenges of playing one of the biggest icons of our times in "My Week With Marilyn". Also on the programme, the sons of The Beatles consider forming a band, and we head to Damien Hirst's new exhibition in London to see if his artwork is losing its bite.
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei draws attention to his constant surveillance by the state. 30 years on, the Falklands War debate continues on social networks.
And an interactive map looking at climate change, those responsible and those that suffer…
We’re heading for Paris' Museum of Modern Art to see Mexico’s emerging art scene. Mexico has become one of Latin America’s key players. The North American Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA, was signed in 1994 and helped to boost the economy of the United States’ southern neighbour. However, Mexico is not yet a stable democratic civil society - a reality reflected in the art shown in this exhibition.
Mexican artists Arturo Hernandez Alcazar et Ilan Lieberman reflect the mood of their country in a new Paris exhibition, "Resisting the present". This exhibition is about social and political pressures and the bloody drug wars.
The international artist David Hockney tells us why he's turned to the iPhone for his new exhibition. Also on the show, we meet Mexican heavy metal kids-turned-rock phenomenon, Rodrigo y Gabriela. We finish with what’s hot on the Paris catwalks.
