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3 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Contemporary art, the last bastion of insider trading
Harry Bellet and Emmanuel de Roux note the arrival of speculators in the burgeoning contemporary art market. "Insider trading, which will land a trader in jail, is considered a virtue here. Knowing which artists will be in fashion next summer before everyone else can have a big payoff. Completely legally. Without going as far as imitating François Pinault who bought Christie's, one of the major operators on the planet, as well as an unparalleled source of information, many businessmen invest in galleries in order to be the first on the list. 'The business of art is the last great unregulated market', Peter R. Stern, a Manhattan prosecutor, told Artnewspaper magazine in 2005. This is not intended to scare, but quite to the contrary, for all those investors who feel constricted by the rules of the stock market."
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Basel gives a new perspective to Munch's work.
"Without 'The Scream' but roaring" enthuses the art critic Harry Bellet about the Edvard Munch retrospective at the Beyeler Foundation (Basel). "Paradoxically, [This exhibition] has benefited from an event that might have made its existence impossible. The stealing of 'The Scream', the most famous of Munch's paintings on August 22nd 2004, from the Oslo Museum which holds the majority of his works, put the organisers in a challenging situation. The masterpiece was recovered but, anticipating the difficulties of obtaining loans from a museum under stress, they sought out other sources which proved to be very rich and show Munch as we've never seen him before. Often reduced to "The Scream", becoming the very archetype of anxiety, he is revealed as a much more lively than we ever thought. ... Dieter Buchhart the young Viennese curator of the exhibition has succeeded in a tour de force which makes previous shows of the Norwegian's work pale by comparison ... ."
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New Realism exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris
The cultural commentator Harry Bellet reviews the exhibition on New Realism, the 1960s artistic movement in France, which opened on Wednesday 28th March at the Grand Palais in Paris. "'New Realism is the shortest movement in the history of art: twenty minutes after its invention everyone fell out with one another.' The joke is Arman's but the Grand Palais exhibition makes sense of the group which the critic Pierre Restany brought together at Yves Klein's home on 27th October 1960. With about 160 works it is dense, sometimes confused, but the exhibition reveals the inventivity of a generation which we are just coming to terms with. A generation which grew up happily gobbling up its elders. While looking at lacerated monochrome posters, the visitor must remember what painting was like in Paris at the end of the 1950s : abstract work ruled, either lyrical or informal."
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