Catherine Bennett

Journalist for @ArteEN, @LeMonde_EN. Writing in @BBC, @washingtonpost, @citylab, @wired, @techreview etc. Travel and translation, too. 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇬🇧

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

Jeff Bezos wealth in 2024: $194 billion

Jeff Bezos wealth in 2025: $215 billion

Jeff Bezos wealth today: $249.4 billion

Net increase in Bezos wealth since 2024: $55.4 billion

Cost of Bezos’s 417-foot superyacht: $500 million

Amazon investment in "Melania": $75 million

Original Bezos purchase price of the Washington Post in 2013: $250 million

Bezos net worth in 2013: $25.2 billion

Net increase in Bezos wealth since buying the Post: $224.2 billion

Last reported annual losses of Post: $100 million

Number of years Bezos could absorb those losses with what he makes in a single week: 5

@JeffBezos

[Catherine Bennett @cfbennett2]

My latest piece for @ArtBasel took me 6 metres underground, to the legendary nightclub designed by David Lynch. It is just as jarring an experience as one of his films, with spooky floor lighting, weird sculptures and endless mirrors. Have a peek inside ⤵️ https://t.co/nmqttU3UrL

[Catherine Bennett @cfbennett2]

Forget Othello - Venice had a connection to Africa long before Shakespeare. I went to explore African Venice, and meet the people reviving the city’s Black history. In @washingtonpost now! https://t.co/AgPsJNhNHD

[Catherine Bennett @cfbennett2]

Walk through the Marais with me in this guide I wrote for @ArtBasel. I used to live in this neighbourhood, and loved revisiting old haunts and discovering new favourites! https://t.co/AoqVt2WemC

[Catherine Bennett @cfbennett2]

I spoke to collector Nicoletta Fiorucci in her magnificent palazzo overlooking the Grand Canal about what collecting means to her, why she champions young artists, and what she hopes to do with her foundation's new art space in Venice. https://t.co/BduVAjWtla

[Catherine Bennett @cfbennett2]

@jeandeloisy Bonjour, je cherche à vous joindre pour un article sur la Fondation Cartier. Pourriez-vous me suivre pour qu'on discute par MP? Merci !

[Catherine Bennett @cfbennett2]

Venice's first kunsthalle-style art centre has opened in a historic building in the heart of the city. I went to SMAC's opening in May for @TravelLeisure. https://t.co/5N6wx0o7GU

[Apollo Magazine @Apollo_magazine]

In ‘Paris Noir’, the Pompidou presents African, Caribbean and American artists who could be free in the French capital in ways denied to them at home

[Catherine Bennett @cfbennett2]

I reviewed the Pinault Collection’s monographic show at Punta della Dogana for @Apollo_magazine and loved it: his economy of gesture or his grotesque sculptures and fairytale creatures. Schütte can do it all, it seems. If you’re in Venice, go!
https://t.co/M5CecxrBce

[Catherine Bennett @cfbennett2]

Paris Noir is huge (and in some ways, too ambitious) - but the show's strength is introducing the public to artists they may never have seen before. What a treat to discover Harold Cousins, Iba N'Diaye, Luce Turnier. My review in @Apollo_magazine.
https://t.co/kql2K4oqRX

[Catherine Bennett @cfbennett2]

What's coming up in the art world internationally? I wrote about some of this year's must-see spring shows for @artsy - obviously it was very hard to whittle it down! https://t.co/VfWThsJzFh

[Catherine Bennett @cfbennett2]

Features, in no particular order, smuggling, Levi’s jeans, Playboy magazine, roses, orange wine and Rudyard Kipling.

[Catherine Bennett @cfbennett2]

Europe's former smuggling capital lies on the border between Slovenia and Italy. I went to Gorizia and Nova Gorica to learn about how these two communities are starting to put a darker part of their past behind them. Out in @thetimes now! https://t.co/gQKDGgvkDw

[Catherine Bennett @cfbennett2]

Uzbekistan's main draw is, of course, the history of the Silk Road. But the Uzbek government's hunger for visitors risks damaging the heritage that is bringing travellers there in the first place. Read my latest for @BBC_Travel. https://t.co/wBGiWMCuz0

[Catherine Bennett @cfbennett2]

Obviously I had to post this week's episode of ARTE Europe Weekly on X...
It's all about how X is rapidly becoming a den of conspiracy theories and far right content and how @elonmusk is meddling in EU affairs.

So what can Europe do to stop him?

https://t.co/YxhkcyqqFb

[Catherine Bennett @cfbennett2]

A few weeks before Christmas, I wrote this piece for @ArtBasel about Notre-Dame's reopening - and some of the secrets inside its walls. https://t.co/IzJuYFqqpH

[Apollo Magazine @Apollo_magazine]

A show of photographs and Pop art-inspired prints by the Catholic nun Corita Kent displays the artist’s fun side but plays down her political fervour, writes @cfbennett2

[Catherine Bennett @cfbennett2]

Wrote about a new show of 'pop art nun' Corita Kent for @Apollo_magazine. For all of its preamble about her political activism, the show was almost empty of the revolution promised in the show's title.
https://t.co/icVhyT4v85

[Catherine Bennett @cfbennett2]

@greenarteries @ObserverUK @CharterhouseSq I didn't write this - look at our photos

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

🇮🇱 to Lebanese people: When we’re done, you can come back safely to your homes

Their homes: