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Archives: Jackie Wullschlager

6th June 2015

‘Keys to a Passion’: the Foundation Louis Vuitton debut show

Bernard Arnault, a French businessman and major art collector, has established the Foundation Louis Vuitton in a purpose-built Frank Gehry gallery in Paris. The first exhibition overflows with masterpieces from across the globe and announces lofty curatorial intentions. This review seems unsure whether to gush more over the art, the building or the institution’s ambition. “Billionaire collectors are not all equal. Any of them can buy, but who can borrow?

Three Era’s in the art of Richard Diebenkorn

Richard Diebenkorn was a figurative painter in mid-career who, on moving to Los Angeles, abruptly shifted to (less fashionable) abstract painting. The result was his Ocean Park series, described by Robert Hughes as “surely one of the most distinguished meditations on landscape in painting since Monet’s Water Lillies”. A “revelatory” London exhibition contrasts his two very different styles. An RA podcast starts slow but is excellent

5th June 2015