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An Extensive Roundup of Haitian Art in Jeopardy, London ICA’s Budget Crisis

As Haiti recovers from the horrific earthquake that has officially killed 150,000 — though some fear the number may be closer to 300,000 — we are only starting to recognize the event’s tragic impact...

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Tate Liverpool Offers Free Virtual Picasso With Visit

A Picasso momento on your mobile phone (via Fast Company)According to Fast Company, Britain’s Tate Liverpool Museum is offering visitors to its Picasso: Peace and Freedom exhibition a virtual gift:In...

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At Prague’s Veletrzni Palac

The entrance to the National Gallery (via flickr.com/lr)What makes a Czech person Czech? National identity is hard to define when a country is only 17 years old. It becomes an even harder question, a...

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When Modernism Ruled Europe

Pablo Picasso, “The Source” (1921). Oil on canvas, 64 x 90 cm. Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Donation 1970 from Grace and Philip Sandblom, © 2010 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New...

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Raiders of the Lost Art

US soldiers take a look, in 1945, at a painting by the French impressionist Edouard Manet. The new database will allow Holocaust survivors and their families to search for items stolen by the Nazis....

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Picasso Would Be 129 Today

Pablo Picasso (image from wikipedia.org)Picasso would have turned 129 today, if the polymath artist, sculptor and co-inventor of cubism hadn’t died in 1973 at the age of 92.Born in 1881, the artist...

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Gagosian, Basquiat…Get Shout Out From Kanye & Jay-Z

And art continues its march into mainstream pop culture … with the newly released/leaked (who can tell anymore) Kanye West track featuring Jay-Z, “That’s My Bitch,” includes the following artful...

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Picasso’s Electrician Claims to Own Hundreds of Works

On of the works that is in the Le Guennec stash. Click for a slideshow of images. (via Libération)France’s Libération newspaper is reporting that the former electrician of Pablo Picasso, Pierre Le...

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Picasso Biographer Weighs In On Le Guennec Picassos

John Richardson, the art historian who has written (and is still writing) the definitive Picasso biography, has published his thought on Vanity Fair‘s website on the recently discovered Picassos in the...

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Picasso’s eBay Period

The Bygone Bureau’s Jimmy Chen imagines what it would be like if Picasso had used eBay. Hilarity ensues. Great line, “bitch i’m trying to make a living. check out my new painting.”. . .

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Five Awesome Artist Studios

Until an artist version of Cribs is invented, the best way we can get inside an artist’s life and work is to get inside their studios. Photographs of artists in their studios are kind of like snapshots...

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Watch Picasso Paint

When I was 13, I got my entrance into modern art through a book that explored the development of modernism artist by artist and piece by piece. My favorite artist from that book? Pablo Picasso, of...

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Required Reading

Ai Weiwei as Easter egg … if only he was that easy to find. (via twitpic.com/4omni9)This week’s selection is a grab bag of links about Picasso, the camera obscura, wondrous product designs, museum...

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Mystery Donor Gifts Pica$$o to Fund Science

Pablo Picasso's ""Jeune fille endormie" (1935) (via AP/Christie's)A vibrant Picasso painting of his teenage lover Marie-Thérèse Walter is to be auctioned at Christie’s June 21st auction in London. The...

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An Appreciation of MoMA’s Miniature Picasso

“Nude Seated on a Rock” on view at the Museum of Modern Art (all photos by author)Walking through the Museum of Modern Art’s modern galleries the other day, I happened upon a small painting that’s...

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Not as Famous, or Lesser-known Relatives of Well-known Artists

Dik F. Liu is a Williamsburg-based artist who has compiled a fascinating list on his Facebook profile page of what he has termed the “Not as Famous – Lesser known relatives of well-known artists.“ He...

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Required Reading

Street artist Curly has a thought about American elections (via flickr.com/staycurly)This week’s edition of Required Reading comes a little later than usual, but aren’t all good things worth the wait?...

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The Best Matisse Room I’ve Ever Seen

The entrance to the National Gallery of Denmark (all photos by the author) (click to enlarge)The Statens Museum for Kunst, or the National Gallery of Denmark, is a stately building that is the treasure...

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The Precious Gems Art History Forgot

Left to right, Jeff Koons's "Rabbit Necklace" (2005-2009), Alexander Calder's "Necklace" (1935) and Roy Lichtenstein's "Pendant" (nd) (all photos by Sherry Griffin, courtesy MAD) (click to...

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Required Reading

Banksy's Monopoly-inspired art work for Occupy London (via ukstreetart.co.uk)This week, Occupy art, Picasso abodes, an artist on Iraq, UK art blogs, lo-fi pics and working as a culture industry serf....

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