Picasso Museum Is Showing Françoise Gilot’s Work, Finally
The prolific painter who died last June at the age of 101 forged a path of success despite Picasso's attempts to destroy her career.
View ArticleWhat Would a Truly Critical Picasso Exhibition Look Like?
A 21st-century institution cannot center Picasso’s legacy without also foregrounding the global forms, artists, and practices that remain omitted from the Euro-American canon of Cubist and Abstract art.
View ArticleWhy You Should Go See Hannah Gadsby’s It’s Pablo-matic
The male-dominated art establishment has always used Pablo Picasso's "genius" to marginalize women. On the 50th anniversary of his death, this is the only show to challenge that.
View ArticleHannah Gadsby’s Picasso Show Is a Victim of Its Hype
It's Pablo-matic is not a great exhibition, but it’s also not the catastrophe that some people have described.
View ArticleNew York Thrifter Finds $8 Picassos at Salvation Army
Nancy Cavaliere, who resold the original Picasso ceramics at auction for $40K, now shares her tips for thrifting on TikTok.
View ArticleAdorable Pup Found Hidden in Picasso Painting
X-ray fluorescence of the artist’s “Le Moulin de la Galette” (1900) has revealed a little brown dog with a red bow under layers of paint.
View ArticlePicasso and Ingres Face Off in London
Can two paintings an entire exhibition make? Yes. Especially when it is a Spaniard called Pablo Picasso squaring up to a Frenchman called Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres.
View ArticleMissing Picasso Resurfaces at Home of Former Philippines First Lady
Imelda Marcos and her husband were accused of plundering billions of dollars from the country.
View Article“OK, I like it, Picasso” Takes Off on TikTok
How an encounter between a pedestrian and a group of art students produced one of TikTok’s latest viral hits.
View Article“It Means Nothing To Me”: Picasso Unimpressed by Moon Landing
The artist's underwhelmed response to the historic 1969 event is the "meh" energy we all need right now as billionaires race to space.
View ArticleMarie Cuttoli, the Entrepreneur Who Brought Modern Art to the Textile Industry
Joan Miró, “Rhythmic Figures” (Personnages rythmiques) or “Woman and Birds, Woven in Aubusson” (1934), cotton and wool with silk. 77 × 69 inches, the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (© Successió Miró /...
View ArticleA Son Gifted His Mother a Raffle Ticket, Winning Her a $1.1M Picasso Painting
Pablo Picasso, “Nature Morte” (1921) (© Succession Picasso, Paris, 2019) One fortunate woman in Italy won a $1.1 million Pablo Picasso painting in a raffle on Wednesday, May 20, without spending a...
View ArticleLucas Cranach’s Gothic Carnality
Lucas Cranach the Elder, “Portrait of Electress and Her Son” (1510-40), oil on panel (Royal Collection Trust, © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2019, all images courtesy Compton Verney, Warwickshire,...
View ArticleFilms About Bosch and Hockney Among OVID’s New Additions in April 2020
From Picasso and Sima, Antibes 1946 (courtesy OVID) OVID, one of the premier streaming sites for independent and arthouse film, has added a terrific slate of new titles for April, including a number of...
View ArticlePicasso, Paper Monster
Pablo Picasso, “Femmes à leur toilette” (Paris, winter 1937–38), collage of cut-out wallpapers with gouache on paper pasted onto canvas, 299 x 448 cm (Musée national Picasso-Paris; Pablo Picasso Gift...
View ArticleA Spanish Billionaire Was Fined $58M for Attempting to Smuggle His Picasso...
A man looks at a (not smuggled) Picasso painting, “Family of Saltimbanques,” at the National Gallery of Art in DC. (via Phil Roeder/Flickr) While history is rife with art crime, it’s less common for...
View ArticleMan Vandalized a Picasso Portrait of Dora Maar at Tate Modern
Pablo Picasso, “Bust of a Woman” (1944) (Photo by and courtesy of Paul O’Garra via flickrstream) Pablo Picasso’s painting “Bust of a Woman” (1944) was removed from public display at Tate Modern in...
View ArticleA Tantalizing, If Flawed Reinterpretation of Picasso’s “Demoiselles d’Avignon”
Installation view of “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” (1907) at the Museum of Modern Art (via Phil Roeder/Flickr) Pablo Picasso’s “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” (1907) made serious news this October at the...
View ArticleFor $111, You Can Enter a Charity Raffle to Win a $1M Picasso
Pablo Picasso, “Nature Morte” (1921) (© Succession Picasso, Paris, 2019) For the average person, owning an original Picasso is a dream beyond reach. But for one lucky person, this dream will come true...
View ArticleCourt Rules That Picasso’s Electrician Stole 271 of the Artist’s Works
A 1909 portrait of Fernande Olivier by Pablo Picasso — not a part of the Le Guennecs’s hoard (via Yann Caradec’s Flickrstream) It’s lights-out for Picasso’s electrician! In the end to a shocking tale...
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