[2] Since her earliest projects as a scholar, Annie has been borrowing techniques from ethnography and anthropology, combining them with traditional historical archival research – mostly in intercultural contexts.

[5] In June 2009, at the French Consulate in New York, she was presented with the title of Chevalier dans l'ordre national de la Légion d'Honneur, the highest decoration in France, by Ambassador Pierre Vimont.

By adopting the historical perspective of the longue durée and developing a multiscalar analysis of configurations, Cohen-Solal highlighted the various networks of agents who made possible the empowerment of the artist in the US as well as the shift of the art world to the US.

As part of her research on art, artists, intellectual and social circulations, she was commissioned by Leon Black (Jewish Lives series at Yale University Press) to write Mark Rothko: toward the Light in the Chapel, translated into six languages.

Following the social and geographical trajectory of the painter, her book reveals how this Jewish child who immigrated to the United States at age ten, became a true agent of transformation of the country, managing to integrate the different cultural areas to which he belonged, notably in the Rothko Chapel (Houston, Texas) commissioned by the de Menil family and inaugurated in 1971.

Following her global vision of artistic flows, the Maeght Foundation in Saint Paul de Vence entrusted her with the essay for Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Barrels (2016).

A version of this exhibition A Foreigner Called Picasso is currently being presented in New York at Gagosian West 21st Street (10 November to 22 December 2023; it is co-curated with Vérane Tasseau).