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...
View ArticleTate 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...
View ArticleAt 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...
View ArticleWhen 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...
View ArticleRaiders 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....
View ArticlePicasso 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...
View ArticleGagosian, 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...
View ArticlePicasso’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...
View ArticlePicasso 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...
View ArticlePicasso’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.”. . .
View ArticleFive 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...
View ArticleWatch 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...
View ArticleRequired 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...
View ArticleMystery 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...
View ArticleAn 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...
View ArticleNot 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...
View ArticleRequired 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?...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleRequired 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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