News
Paris Metro Bans David Hockney Exhibition Ad Over a Cigarette
The famed British artist called the transit network's decision “complete madness” ahead of his major retrospective at the Fondation Louis Vuitton.
Fondation Louis Vuitton
Comics
Mark Rothko’s Emotional Self-Portraits
An exhibition at Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris shows a lesser-known side of the American artist.
Art
The Dark Clouds Closing In on Mark Rothko
A retrospective exhibition in Paris holds so much beauty that visitors may miss how the artist, exhausted, painted himself into a corner.
News
Louis Vuitton in Trouble Over Joan Mitchell Works in New Ad
The artist's estate sent a cease and desist order to the fashion company for its inclusion of paintings by the artist in a recent ad campaign.
Art
Charlotte Perriand's Prescient Designs for Modern Living
While working with Le Corbusier and his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret, for 10 years, Perriand advanced her vision of modern living.
Art
How Daniel Buren's Institutional Critique Became Institutional Chic
PARIS — Lacking any discernible content outside of context, the translucent, cheery façade of Daniel Buren’s "Observatory of Light” (2016) at the Foundation Louis Vuitton is another example of how once-radical conceptual artists have become co-opted and turned into spiffy designer-decorators.
Art
Modernist Male Art Is Timeless, but Not Timely
PARIS — According to Sigmund Freud, a key that opens a room in a dream is unmistakably phallic.
Art
Pushing Back Against Scale and Brand in Frank Gehry's Latest Luxury Art Hangar
PARIS — The essence of branding is the insistent repetition of a recognizable commodity image, so we should not be surprised when Bernard Arnault’s global luxury brand Louis Vuitton applies the same formula to art.