Héléna Villovitch

Jean-Marc Sylvestre

Pierre & Arnaud Cornette de Saint Cyr

15 September, 2008: the day that Lehman Brothers’s bankruptcy is announced, Damien Hirst puts his year’s production up for auction at Sotheby’s in New York. Lot n°13 is a piece called The Golden Calf. The bidding is astronomical! Tuesday, 29 October, 1929: Black Tuesday on Wall Street. A few days...

Yann Kerninon

The entire intellectual and political history of the 19th and 20th centuries can be defined as a struggle against the bourgeois spirit. Nietzsche, Artaud, Baudelaire, Marx, Heidegger, Freud, Rimbaud, Dada, surrealism, Situationism, punk… Each, in its own way, has demonstrated, written or screamed...

Jean Real

“It all started back in 1221, when the eels of Lake Geneva had to answer for several acts of evil-doing before an Episcopal court. Their lawyer defended them so well that they were granted part of the lake for their exclusive use,” writes Jean Réal. Flies, maybugs, caterpillars, mice and more were...