DUBAI: When Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath began planning their curation of the Lyon Biennale, in March 2020, the world was just waking up to the dangers of COVID-19. Naturally, the disruption and damage of the pandemic ended up having a major influence not just logistically (it was delayed for a year), but thematically. Bardaouil tells Arab News that the conversations he
Mimosa Echard has been named the winner of this year’s Prix Marcel Duchamp, the most prestigious art prize in France. The honor comes with €35,000 ($41,000) and funding to produce an exhibition at Paris’s Centre Pompidou, which co-organizes the prize. Previous recipients of the award include Kader Attia, Latifa Echakhch, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Thomas Hirschhorn, and Kapwani Kiwanga. In an effort to increase awareness of contemporary French art abroad, the prize this year also comes with a 2023 residency with the Villa Albertine in a US city of the artist’s choice. Echard, who grew up in
/PRNewswire/ The international Art Basel organization (owned by MCH Group) is about to open its first Paris+ art fair (20-23 October), which replaces the.