Real Life

OUBEYs works were uncharted territory at the time of his death. Neither an art expert nor another artist nor anybody else had ever commented on them – not even OUBEY himself. He never offered any explanations of his work. 

One hundred years ago, the architect Walter Gropius, working together with other architects and artists, founded the Bauhaus in Weimar as a State Art Academy. World-famous today, back in the 1920s its members sought a radical break with the past, a fundamental reform of the ways we build our houses and live in them - and even the ways we cohabit together in society.

Art and music therapy for the treatment of a range of disorders are now well established in Europe. Yet since 1st November the Canadian city of Montreal has gone one step further: in association with the city’s Museum of Fine Arts, doctors can now write their patients a prescription for a visit to the museum. The next visit to a museum – prescribed by your own doctor. How wonderful!