Tag: Arts
Electronic Arts licenses at Codemasters
These salary cuts can be explained by the very mixed launch of F1 23, whose European sales are almost 50% lower than the scores of F1 22 in the first…
From Palestine to Paris, Chana Orloff, an artist of the century
A great tumult reigns at Villa Seurat this November morning. And not only because not far from this dead end in the south of Paris, the acacia trees on rue…
The Israel-Hamas war is tearing the art world apart
OLIVIER BONHOMME Philippe Cohen, a Franco-Israeli collector, from the cerebral family, has never given up buying works that tickle his political convictions. He says he acquired a neon sign from…
A video game character who speaks with your voice? Electronic Arts is thinking about it
Electronic Arts has filed a patent to integrate player voices into video games. The idea is to be able to create an avatar speaking like you, or even to lend…
China rediscovers the painter Zao Wou-ki
View of the Zao Wou-Ki exhibition at the Hangzhou Academy of Arts, September 2023. HANGZHOU ACADEMY OF ARTS Ten years after the death of Zao Wou-ki, China – finally –…
Why fake Brancusi thrive in the art market
OLIVIER BALEZ It’s a funny piaf, a firecracker blue, swollen like a wineskin, with its beak straightened. For a year, this plaster bird has been sitting in Gilles Perrault’s office,…
Timisoara celebrates Brancusi, native son and precursor of modern sculpture
View of the exhibition “Brancusi. Romanian sources and universal perspectives”, in Timisoara, Romania, in 2023. CATALIN GEORGESCU After the success of the Victor Brauner exhibition in the spring (26,000 visitors),…
MMA event with a German record: Octagon on the way to becoming the “Formula 1 of martial arts”
The Czech organizer Oktagon wants to achieve in Cologne what even the MMA industry leader UFC was unable to do. 20,000 spectators are expected to experience an MMA spectacle and…
The Rothko Chapel, in Houston, the ultimate masterpiece of an artist with ardent spirituality
The entrance to the Rothko Chapel, facing the broken obelisk by artist Barnett Newman, in Houston (Texas), November 2, 2023. MAX BURKHALTER FOR “M LE MAGAZINE DU MONDE” Mark Rothko…
Fashion and sport team up at the Museum of Decorative Arts
View of the exhibition “Fashion and sport, from one podium to another” at the Museum of Decorative Arts, in Paris. DECORATIVE ARTS/CHRISTOPHE DELLIÈRE There is a lot of activity in…
In New York, a storm of record auctions, including a Monet sold for $74 million
Christie’s, owned by the Artémis holding of French billionaire François Pinault, and its competitor Sotheby’s, which belongs to Franco-Israeli billionaire Patrick Drahi, are in the middle of the fall auction…
Eiji Aonuma, producer of Zelda, becomes Knight of Arts and Letters
By referring to the site culture.gouv.fr, we discover the following definition: “this order is intended to reward people who have distinguished themselves by their creations in the artistic or literary…