Yet he said his pieces were never directly about the Holocaust, but rather were informed by it. And, he said, although he was often seen as being preoccupied with death, he saw optimism and even humor in some of his works. It makes them happy, because they can try on all the clothes.”One of Mr. Boltanski’s odder projects was “The Life of C.B.,” a work not by him but featuring him. In 2009 he struck an unusual arrangement with a collector named David Walsh in which Mr. Walsh agreed to pay him for the right to livestream Mr. Boltanski’s studio perpetually until one of them died. The stream was still running at Mr. Walsh’s Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania, Australia, at Mr. Boltanski’s death.

Source: New York Times July 15, 2021 22:18 UTC