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BHARTI KHER’S IRRESISTIBLE WORLD

BHARTI KHER’S IRRESISTIBLE WORLD

Jean Sebastien Stehli
Photo: Claire Dorn. ©Bharti Kher/ADAGP, Paris, 2025. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin Weather Painting: Mother’s Fury. ©Bharti Kher / ADAGP, Paris, 2025 Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin Bharti...
THE MYSTERIOUS RUINS OF PARIS

THE MYSTERIOUS RUINS OF PARIS

Jean Sebastien Stehli
To enter the book of Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre is to step into a parallel universe, as if one could suddenly step into a video game or in a...
DREAM STONES AND STONES OF DREAMS

DREAM STONES AND STONES OF DREAMS

Jean Sebastien Stehli
We know how a single event can take our life in a completely unexpected direction. For writer, poet, literary critic Roger Caillois, his passion for stones started in 1942 in...
RUTH ASAWA’S BEAUTIFULLY WIRED LIFE

RUTH ASAWA’S BEAUTIFULLY WIRED LIFE

Jean Sebastien Stehli
Installation view of Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective. New York Museum of Modern Art. Photo Jonathan Dorado. Ruth Asawa, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1973. Photo Laurence Cuneo. It took...
THE SIMPLE MAGIC OF ANISH KAPOOR’S EARLY WORKS

THE SIMPLE MAGIC OF ANISH KAPOOR’S EARLY WORKS

Jean Sebastien Stehli
Anish Kapoor, Part of the Red, 1981. ©AnishKapoor AnishKapoor,WhiteSand,RedMillet,ManyFlowers,1982,mixedmedia,pigment ©AnishKapoor Anish Kapoor is one of contemporary arts’ super stars. Kapoor occupied the chateau de Versailles in 2015 with his Dirty...
THE AMAZING JOURNEY OF THE CARTIER FOUNDATION

THE AMAZING JOURNEY OF THE CARTIER FOUNDATION

Jean Sebastien Stehli
© Jean Nouvel / Adagp, Paris, 2025. Photo © Luc Boegly View from platform 1_Alessandro Mendini_Bodys Isek Kengelez_Alessandro Mendini and Peter Halley. Exhibition view. Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, 2025....
THE MANY LIVES OF EDWARD WESTON

THE MANY LIVES OF EDWARD WESTON

Jean Sebastien Stehli
Edward Weston, Shell and Rock Arrangement, 1931 © Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents / Edward Weston, Adagp, Paris, 2025. Courtesy Wilson Centre for Photography Edward Weston is...
BOURSE DE COMMERCE’S MAXIMAL MINIMAL

BOURSE DE COMMERCE’S MAXIMAL MINIMAL

Jean Sebastien Stehli
Dan Flavin, “Minimal” Agnes Martin, White Flower, 1960 In a world teetering on the edge of chaos, the exhibition at the Bourse de Commerce, Minimal, is a welcome respite, surprisingly....
ANDY GOLDSWORTHY’S MIRACLES WITH NATURE

ANDY GOLDSWORTHY’S MIRACLES WITH NATURE

Jean Sebastien Stehli
Andy Goldsworthy, Oak Passage and Ferns. Andy Goldsworthy, Elm leaves held with water to fractured bough of fallen elm. Dumfriesshire, Scotland. 29 October 2010, Land artists of the 1960s left...
THE VIRGIL ABLOH CODES. THE BRILLIANCE OF HIS IDEAS

THE VIRGIL ABLOH CODES. THE BRILLIANCE OF HIS IDEAS

Jean Sebastien Stehli
The monumental celebration of Virgil Abloh’s work, opening on his birth date, September 30, will remind everyone, if need be, of his enormous influence not only on fashion, but also...
GEORGES DE LA TOUR, MASTER OF LIGHT

GEORGES DE LA TOUR, MASTER OF LIGHT

Jean Sebastien Stehli
Georges de La Tour. Le nouveau né. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes. Fame can be slow. It can take years for an artist’s work to be rediscovered and appreciated. In...
PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE MYTH OF SAINT LAURENT

PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE MYTH OF SAINT LAURENT

Jean Sebastien Stehli
Peter Knapp/Elle September 1965. Haute couture autumn/winter 1965Evening dress worn by Violeta Sanchez, haute couture autumn/winter 1982. Yves saint Laurent. Yves Saint Laurent was the world’s most famous fashion designer...