Judith Benhamou-Huet

Judith Benhamou-Huet
Born Judith Benhamou-Huet
France
Occupation Journalist, independent curator, author
Language French, English
Nationality French
Genre Art history, art

Judith Benhamou-Huet is a French journalist, independent curator and author specialized in art and the art market. She is a weekly columnist for the French newspaper Les Echos[1] and the magazine Le Point.[2] Benhamou-Huet is also the author of a number of books as well as an independent curator.

Career

Writing

In the early 1990s, Benhamou-Huet began her career as a weekly columnist for the French daily Les Échos Benhamou-Huet collaborated with Interview Magazine, Vogue Paris, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Art & Auction, Artinfo, ArtPress, Beaux-Arts and Connaissance des Arts. In early 2000's she began her weekly column for the French Magazine Le Point. She is now also involved in Les Echos TV and BFM TV where she presents, on a weekly basis, her views on current art exhibitions of the French and international art scene.

Alongside to her journalistic achievements, Benhamou-Huet wrote several books. Among them are Art Business[3] (2001) and Art Business (2)[4] (2007), published in English with the title The Worth of Art and The Worth of Art (2). In these publications, Benhamou-Huet analyzes the principles of valuation in the contemporary art market. Thus far, the two volumes have been translated from French to English, Mandarin Chinese and Russian.

In 2008, Benhamou-Huet authored Global Collectors,[5] written in both French and English and published by Phébus in which she profiled 120 international art collectors.

In 2012, Benhamou-Huet wrote Les Artistes ont Toujours Aimé L'Argent. D'Albrecht Durer à Damien Hirst,[6] a study of notable artists throughout history and their – sometimes unexpected - relationship to money. The book was published by Grasset in France and by World Publishing Beijing in China.

In 2014, Benhamou-Huet authored a biographical account of the life of the artist, Robert Mapplethorpe, published in France by Grasset. Titled Dans la vie noire et blanche de Robert Mapplethorpe,[7] the book was followed closely by Mapplethorpe, Vivant – Réponse à des Questions[8] in which Benhamou-Huet presented a series of exclusive interviews of relatives, friends, curators and former boyfriends of Mapplethorpe, each relating singular details of the artist’s life and art. The book was published by Presses du Réel. Both works emanate from researches Benhamou-Huet did on the occasion of her curating and co-curating two shows on Mapplethorpe at the Musée Rodin[9] and at the Grand Palais[10] in Paris.

Curatorial Practice

As an independent curator, Benhamou-Huet curated an exhibition titled Warhol TV[11] (2009) in which she explored Andy Warhol's connection to television and for which she also wrote the exhibition catalogue.[12] Warhol TV toured in Paris at La Maison Rouge, the Berardo Museum[13] in Lisbon, and in several other institutions in Brazil including Oi Futuro Flamengo[14] in Rio de Janeiro, Oi Futoro[14] in Belo Horizonte and Sesc Pinheiros[15] in São Paulo.

In 2014, Benhamou-Huet co-curated the exhibition "Mapplethorpe-Rodin"[9] at the Musée Rodin in Paris and was an associate-curator of the Robert Mapplethorpe retrospective[10] at the Grand Palais.

Publishing history

Releases by Judith Benhamou-Huet
Year Title Publisher ISBN
2001 Art business : Le marché de l'art ou l'art du marché[16] (French) (Chinese) Assouline ISBN 978-2-84323-305-0
2001 The Worth of Art: Pricing the Priceless[17] (English) Assouline ISBN 978-2-84323-284-8
2006 Femme Cuillière (French) Cinq Sens ISBN 978-2-95262-390-2
2008 Art Business (2)[18] (French) (Russian) Assouline ISBN 978-2-7594-0146-8
2008 The Worth of Art (2) (English) Assouline ISBN 978-2-7594-0147-5
2008 Global Collectors[19] (English) (French) Phoebus / Senses ISBN 978-2-7529-0328-0
2009 21st-Century Embroidery in India: In Their Hands (English) Prestel Publishing ISBN 978-3-7913-4229-0
2010 Les œuvres d'Art les plus chères du monde (French) Éditions du Chêne ISBN 978-2-8123-0263-3
2012 Les artistes ont toujours aimé l'argent (French) Grasset ISBN 978-2-2467-6981-1
2014 Mapplethorpe, vivant - réponse à des questions (French) Les Presses du réel ISBN 978-2-84066-655-4
2014 Dans la vie noire et blanche de Robert Mapplethorpe (French) Grasset ISBN 978-2-24680-506-9
2015 Les artistes ont toujours aimé l'argent[20] (Chinese) World Publishing Beijing ISBN 978-7-5100-8806-3

References

  1. ↑ fr:Les Échos
  2. ↑ fr:Le Point
  3. ↑ http://www.amazon.fr/Art-business-Le-marché-lart/dp/2843233054
  4. ↑ http://www.amazon.fr/Art-business-2-Judith-Benhamou-Huet/dp/2759401464
  5. ↑ http://www.amazon.fr/Global-Collectors-Collectionneurs-du-monde/dp/2752903286
  6. ↑ http://www.amazon.fr/Les-artistes-toujours-aimé-largent/dp/2246769817
  7. ↑ http://www.amazon.fr/Dans-noire-blanche-Robert-Mapplethorpe/dp/2246805066
  8. ↑ http://www.amazon.fr/Mapplethorpe-vivant-réponses-à-questions/dp/2840666553/ref=pd_sxp_redirect
  9. 1 2 http://www.musee-rodin.fr/fr/exposition/exposition/mapplethorpe-rodin
  10. 1 2 http://www.grandpalais.fr/fr/evenement/robert-mapplethorpe
  11. ↑ http://archives.lamaisonrouge.org/spip.php?article62&date=archives
  12. ↑ http://www.lespressesdureel.com/ouvrage.php?id=1473
  13. ↑ http://pt.museuberardo.pt/
  14. 1 2 http://www.oi.com.br/oi/sobre-a-oi/sala-de-imprensa/opcoes/press-releases/detalhe?imprensa=9d084c121fe613104c121fe613104ea1140a____
  15. ↑ http://www.sesc.com.br/
  16. ↑ "Art business. The art market and the art market". Paris Art (in French). Retrieved 2013-09-25.
  17. ↑ Judith, Benhamou (November 2001). The Worth of Art: Pricing the Priceless. Assouline. ISBN 978-2-84323-284-8.
  18. ↑ Benhamou-Huet, Judith (October 2007). "Art business: the bottom of the art market". France Culture (in French). Retrieved 2013-09-25.
  19. ↑ Bellet, Harry (December 12, 2008). ""Special Collections", under the direction of Nadia Candet and "Global Collector Collectors World." Judith Benhamou-Huet: private passions". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 2013-09-25.
  20. ↑ "Beijing World Publishing".

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External links

  1. ↑ Benhamou-Huet, Judith. "Art Business: The art market and art market" (in French). Retrieved 2013-09-25.
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