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Following the wildfires that ravaged Brittany last summer, Ronan Bouroullec has reimagined the interior of the region's Chapelle Saint-Michel de Brasparts. ....
A Republican Party donor has damaged a £2.4 million sculpture by Damien Hirst after she crashed her Rolls-Royce into a beachfront property in Florida. Elizabeth Raese, 66, who once posed alongside Sarah Palin, drove through the garden of the art collectors Steven and Lisa Tananbaum and struck a “cor ....
The Guardian Evoking the classic dive books popularized by Jacques-Yves Cousteau, this limited-edition, leatherbound publication follows the underwater expedition that accompanied Damien Hirst s latest project, Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable. Shot in the Indian Ocean over a number of years, the extraordinary underwater images of the artworks recovery were photographed by Christoph Gerigk, who has twice been awarded the World Press Photo Foundation s prize for international photojournalism for his work on Egypt s sunken cities. Also featured are photographs of the above-water operation by Steve Russell Studios. Signed by the artist and numbered in an edition of 1,000, the publication includes 128 full-color images, 94 of which are double-page spreads. The book s pages feature a die-cut hole and gold-edged paper. ....
A Self-Styled âTroublemakerâ Creates a Different Paris Museum Contemporary art owned by the billionaire François Pinault is displayed beneath the rotunda of the Bourse de Commerce and frescoes of a colonialist past. The rotunda of the Bourse de Commerce, designed by Tadeo Ando, with the 19th-century work âTriumphal Franceâ above.Credit.Julien Mignot for The New York Times May 25, 2021, 12:40 p.m. ET PARIS â François Pinault, the French billionaire, has never had much time for convention. âAvoid the paths already trodden,â has been his motto. Bored with acquiring Impressionist or Cubist works with surefire credentials, he said to himself four decades ago: âItâs impossible that we have become so stupid today that there are no human beings alive capable of creating tomorrowâs masterpieces.â ....