I am a global academic and writer. For ever, I have been tracking down the interactions between art, literature and society. I taught social and cultural history in various cities such as Paris, Jerusalem, Berlin, and New York. As a curator, I was in charge of the Nuit Sartre at the Ecole normale supérieure (2013), Magiciens de la terre 2014 at the Centre Pompidou and Picasso l’étranger at the Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration in partnership with the Musée national Picasso-Paris (2021). On this occasion, I also edited a 290 pages-catalog, with the contribution of 25 scholars, mainly from the social sciences. It represents a new paradigm that I have been developing during the last 3 decades on the field of visual arts, at the crossroads of disciplinary fields (social history, art history, political science, history of immigration), in times of crisis and migrations. Such is also the topic of my current projects which focus on issues of exile, rootlessness and expatriation: Revisiting the Rothko Chapel (with Aaron Rosen); Metics and Meteors: On the Condition of the Expatriate Artist from Antonello da Messina (15th c.) to Christo (21 th c.)
