Fabienne Verdier (Née en 1962)

Drops of water shimmered alongside Fabienne Verdier’s work and brought the artist a world record. Around her, Asian art also blossomed.

A few days before her first exhibition in London, the artist welcomes us into her den. A place of light and shadow, sheltered from the tumult of the world. A visit.

The furniture of the 18th century and its style is in dialogue with that of the 21st-century chests and Japanese screens, while Pierre Auguste Renoir rubs shoulders with Jean Degottex and Fabienne Verdier.

Labeled an art center of national interest in 2020, the Espace de l'Art Concret, in Mouans-Sartoux, in Provence, is celebrating its 30th anniversary a year late. Its director looks back on a project born of the passion of two artists and collectors: Sybil Albers-Barrier and Gottfried Honegger.

The newly-opened Cité du Vitrail puts the spotlight on a heritage with a constantly developing expertise. Presenting medieval masterpieces and contemporary creations, this new institution sheds light on a thousand-year-old art form.

Le Havre's Port Center will be redeveloped into a contemporary art center by the summer of 2025. A sketch of the project was presented at the city council meeting on October 10, by the deputy for culture, Fabienne Delafosse. The 1600 m2 (17,222 ft2) space will be located near MuMa and the Unesco World Heritage site.

With rigorous standards and determination, the collector and philanthropist has built up one of Switzerland's most important private art collections in almost six decades: the envy of many of museum.

Nicknamed the Little Tate Modern: the Swiss institution that preserves nearly 800 works, created by local figures of Concrete Art, from Max Bill to Camille Graeser, risks being evicted. The old power plant that has housed the museum since 2001 is slated to be put back into operation. A petition opposes the project.

Don't forget the lavish decorations by Pizzi, Wilmotte, Graf and Grange, September’s warmth under the glass roof of the light-drenched Grand Palais and the head-spinning maze of huge aisles where one could easily lose one's way—for the Biennale Paris, formerly the Biennale des Antiquaires, is no more.

Despite the pandemic, the auction market has not collapsed, and the first quarter of 2021 even broke records: a euphoria now confirmed by the traditional May sales in New York. And a revolution is probably taking shape at the same time…