Words with Friends: Artist-Poet Pairings
Picasso, Ashbery, Rivers, Johns, Motherwell, Alberti and more in “The Artist and the Poet” at the Art Institute of Chicago Read More
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Tag Archives: Pablo Picasso
Suite Memories: Art for JFK and Jackie
An exhibition in Texas reassembles the art that decorated the Kennedys’ hotel suite on the night before the president was assassinated Read More
Gilty Pleasures: The Guggenheim Reframes Its Classics
A team of experts at the Guggenheim is reframing modernist works from the Thannhauser collection in period frames dating back to the 17th century Read More
Botero: ‘You Can’t Be Liked By Everybody’
Fernando Botero sold one of his watercolors at the age of 14 for two dollars and despite some ‘opposition’ has since become one of the world’s wealthiest artists Read More
Authenticating Picasso
Forty years after Picasso’s death, while his paintings are among the most expensive ever sold, the problem of how
to authenticate his work remains a challenge. To avoid mistakes, four of his five surviving heirs have clarified the process but have not included his elder daughter Read More
Uncovering Picasso’s Secrets
As he prepares his fourth and final volume of his Picasso biography, John Richardson is still making discoveries
about the artist Read More
‘Dear Picasso’
Revisiting and recasting the master’s work, from Cubism through Guernica to the Mosqueteros of his old age, new generations of artists are discovering Picasso all over again. Read More
A Crime Waiting to Happen
Two of the world's top art-theft sleuths discuss the heist from the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. Read More
Dancing with Degas
An exhibition explores Picasso's seven-decade obsession with a man he saw as not only an artistic predecessor but also a father figure. Read More
Say It with Flowers—or Gourds, Goats, Fur Cups, or Fried Eggs
The interpretation of sexual symbols in art is everywhere. But what we view as erotic often tells us less about the artists than it does about our own sensibilities. Read More
Underrated/Overrated
Which artists have been overlooked? And which have we been looking at too much?. Read More
Sign Here!
Some artists’ signatures are self-expression, some are design elements, and some are just fun. Read More
