Farah Atassi is not entirely comfortable with you feeling comfortable about her artwork. But when walking into the first room of her current exhibition at the Musée Picasso, the urge to take a deep, ...
When the boundless imagination of Pablo Picasso meets the vibrant creativity of Sir Paul Smith, fireworks follow. Picasso ...
Françoise Gilot at the Trophée des Arts Gala in New York City in 2012 (photo by Fernando Leon/Getty Images) The late French artist Françoise Gilot, widely recognized for her painting practice and for ...
When Sophie Calle was 6 years old, her father framed a drawing she made. Her grandmother responded enthusiastically, declaring that there appeared to be “a Picasso in the family.” Sophie Calle covers ...
When Catalan artist Oriol Vilanova exhibited a jacket filled with postcards visitors could remove and examine at the Musée Picasso in Paris, little did he imagine that one person would take the ...
This museum, which hangs nearly 250 of Picasso's works, is actually a former castle, the Château Grimaldi. The artist ventured upon it in 1946 and started using it as his studio – but he also employed ...
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Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Most importantly, the Musée Picasso’s collection, the world’s largest assembly of works by the artist, was ...
It’s one thing to touch art that you’re not supposed to. It’s an entirely different matter when you take that art home and alter its dimensions to your liking. That’s essentially what happened last ...
On “Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso: The Invention of Language,” at Musée du Luxembourg, Paris. Though Stein’s contemporaries may not have always appreciated her in the way she wished, the Musée du ...
‘Fillette au Bateau’ (Girl on a Boat), a portrait by Pablo Picasso of his daughter Maya, sold for more than £18m at auction in March 2023 (Musée National ...