Yasmina Reza’s Art is a sharp, hilarious, and surprisingly moving play about friendship, taste, and the value of art.
It begins when Serge buys a very expensive modern painting: a completely white canvas. His friend Marc is horrified. “You paid all that… for this?” Their third friend, Yvan, is caught in the middle, trying to keep the peace.
What follows is ninety minutes of escalating debate. Is the painting genius or nonsense? But the real question is deeper: what holds their friendship together? Can it survive judgment, jealousy, and honesty?
Since its premiere in 1994, Art has been performed worldwide, winning awards in London, New York, and beyond. On the surface, it’s about one painting, but underneath, it’s about how we see each other, and what we choose to value.
Funny, biting, and brutally honest, Art proves that sometimes the biggest arguments begin with the smallest things.