Anaël Pigeat Appointed Editor-in-Chief of artpress for Its 40th Anniversary

Anaël Pigeat has become the new editor-in-chief of artpress, a French art magazine approaching its 40th anniversary. Founded in 1972, the magazine has featured Barnett Newman on its first cover and hosted debates between Michael Snow and Laurie Anderson in its second issue. Pigeat outlines the magazine's role in a transformed art landscape dominated by market forces and superficial discourse. She identifies emerging trends: the return of figurative painting, increased narrative presence, blurring boundaries between visual arts and cinema, and the influence of internet and memory technologies. Despite changes, she asserts that the quality of an artwork is still measured by its depth and form. Pigeat commits to discerning the best art with the same rigor as the past, aiming to anticipate what history will remember.