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Who Owns the Color Red?
Louboutin shoes (via christianlouboutinsau.com)Can a person own a color? Yves Klein may say yes, but Yves Saint Laurent begs to differ. Over the course of the past year the luxury goods company has...
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Minotaurs and Mistresses: Picasso at the British Museum
"Faun uncovering a sleeping nude figure reclining on a bed," plate 27 of the Vollard Suite (VS 27). June 12, 1936, Etching and aquatint. Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973). (copyright of Succession...
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Picasso’s 1929 painting “Femme au fauteuil rouge (Woman in a Red Armchair)” was vandalized last week at Houston’s Menil Collection by a man with a can of spray paint. According to the city’s Local 2...
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The Evolving and Bizarre Story of Houston’s Vandalized Picasso
Poor Picasso. His “Femme au fauteuil rouge (Woman in a Red Armchair)” (1929) was vandalized last week at Houston’s Menil Collection and the artist claiming responsibility for the action, Uriel...
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Artist Is Charged in Picasso Vandalism Case
The first rule of social networking is that it’s very hard to make things private. It’s a decent bet that almost everything you post online is in some way accessible by people you don’t necessarily...
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Picasso the Playwright
Photograph by Brassaï showing artists gathered in 1944 in Paris after the first private production of Picasso’s “Desire Caught by the Tail” (photo courtesy the Guggenheim Museum)Picasso is renowned and...
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Picasso at His Most Surreal
A view of last night’s reading of “Desire Caught by the Tail” at the Guggenheim. (photo by the author for Hyperallergic)Last night and tonight, the Guggenheim is staging two special, performance-like...
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Vote Picasso for Minister of Art!
The Chicago ballot, with artist choices (Photo by author)CHICAGO — When my wife was completing her mail-in voter ballot for the upcoming US elections, something on the instruction leaflet caught my...
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Picasso and Chicago
Maquette of Picasso’s iconic Chicago head sculpture (Image courtesy Art Institute of Chicago)CHICAGO — Sometimes it almost seems that at any time of the year, at some place in the world, there is...
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Donation Promises to Transform Metropolitan Museum into Major Cubist Art Center
Pablo Picasso, “Femme assise dans un fauteuil (Eva) (Woman in an Armchair)” (1913), oil on canvas, 59 x 39 1/8 in. (148 x 99 cm), Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection; 2013 Estate of Pablo...
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10 Painters’ Lives Chronicled as Infographics
Detail of “Visualising Painter’s” Lives by Accurat (all images courtesy Accurat)At about the same time Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock was losing himself to depression, Matisse’s...
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Five Stories of Art Saved from War’s Annihilation
Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives (MFAA) division and American soldiers recovering looted paintings from Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany during World War II (via National Archives)The greatest...
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Destroy the Brutalism, Leave the Picasso: A Debate Over What’s Worth Saving...
Detail of “The Fisherman” mural by Picasso and Carl Nesjar (photograph by Statsministerens kontor/Flickr user)After being damaged by a 2011 car bomb, some Brutalist architecture in Oslo is up for...
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Reexamining Picasso’s Politics
Legend has it that Pablo Picasso was a lifelong Communist. The man who painted “Guernica” (1937) is known for having been anti-Franco, anti-fascist, and possibly even something of a political activist....
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One of Picasso’s Favorite African Masks Goes to Auction
Baule mask Ivory Coast wood height: 43 in. (109 cm.) base by wood artist Kichizô Inagaki (1876–1951) (image courtesy Christie’s)Popularly known as the “Krugier-Picasso mask,” a 19th century West...
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Corralling the 20th-Century Rampage of Modernism in Texas
Henri Matisse, “Bathers by a River” (March 1909–10, May–November 1913, and early spring 1916–October [?] 1917), oil on canvas (all photographs by the author for Hyperallergic)As the 100th anniversary...
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Picasso Raffle, Baby
Olivier Picasso speaks about his grandfather’s work of art, which is on sale for $135 a ticket. (screenshot via YouTube)“I just want a Picasso in my casa, no, my castle,” raps Jay Z in his...
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Drawing Across Five Centuries
Otto Dix, “Old Woman” (c. 1923), Art Institute of Chicago, gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection (© 2014 Artists Rights Society [ARS], New York / VG...
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Phillips Collection Finds Unknown Portrait Beneath a Picasso Painting
Pablo Picasso, “The Blue Room” (1901), oil on canvas, 19 7/8 x 24 1/4 in (acquired 1927, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC) (© Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society [ARS], New York)The...
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Behold, Picasso’s “Guernica” Remade in Legos
An all-Lego brick recreation of Picasso’s Guernica created by Legoland Discovery Center Westchester’s Master Model Builder Veronica Watson (photo by Legoland Discovery Center Westchester) Tomorrow...
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