Tate’s new Picasso exhibition is not, we are told in the catalogue, “an exhibition that explores the relationship between Picasso and theatre”. It is a ‘gesture’ to “bring out new relationships [between his works] and audiences”.
17 September 2025
Four major artworks once entangled in the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) corruption scandal have been sold by the US Marshals… Read More
9 September 2025
For over half a century, Patricia G. Ross Weis and Robert F. Weis built a collection of 20th-century art not… Read More
31 August 2025
A trove of blue-chip artworks—once owned by fugitive financier Jho Low and Wolf of Wall Street producer Joey McFarland—has surfaced in an unlikely venue: an online auction run by the U.S. Marshals Service.
31 July 2025
The National Gallery of Ireland throws open the doors to Picasso’s private creative realms this autumn, presenting sixty works that chart the artist’s reinvention across studios from Montmartre to Mougins…
24 July 2025
Richard Calvocoressi’s prologue to this well-researched biography states that if Douglas Cooper and Roland Penrose had been able to “bury their differences….
16 July 2025
A previously unknown painting by Pablo Picasso has emerged from the shadows of history, hidden for over a century beneath one of the artist’s earliest Blue Period masterpieces….
14 February 2025
This exhibition offers insights into Picasso’s life through his art, including his complex relationships with women and his partnerships with printers, publishers and other artists.
Daily: 10.00–17.00 (Fridays 20.30) See full opening hours
The revolutionary ideas of these three giants reshaped art in the 20th century.
Monday - Friday: 10am - 6pm
A Picasso painting at London’s National Gallery became the focus of a protest by pro-Palestinian activists….
10 October 2024
For decades, a Cubist-style painting hung on the wall of Luigi Lo Rosso’s home in Capri. The artwork had a signature scrawled “Picasso”…
2 October 2024
This autumn, Christie’s will present the art collection of actor, director and film producer Ivan Reitman & his wife, Genevieve… Read More
4 October 2023
The Guggenheim Bilbao is hosting Picasso Sculptor: Matter and Body, an exhibition focusing exclusively on Picasso’s sculpture
2 October 2023
Should an artist’s behaviour and beliefs be considered separate from their art? This complex and controversial issue has been debated in the art world for many years.
10 May 2023
After visiting the excellent Paul Smith-curated Pablo Picasso exhibition at the Musée Picasso in Paris, I was inspired to choose ten paintings, writing a paragraph on each.
3 May 2023
The English fashion designer Sir Paul Smith has created one of the most engaging Picasso exhibitions ever mounted to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the artist’s death on April 8 1973.
9 March 2023
Restitution is proving to be a complex and challenging problem for many museums and private collections. This week alone, several cases have been filed. Reputations that were once beyond question have now been brought into question.
25 January 2023
Paris is always good for an Artlyst road trip, as James Payne discovers as he visits Fondation Louis Vuitton, Cluny Museum and goes on a Picasso walking tour.
6 June 2022
Tate has backtracked under public pressure and will now remove the existing Sackler names from two of its London museums…. Read More
8 February 2022
Bellagio To Sell Eleven Picassos Valued At $100m – Stefan Kalmár Steps Down From London’s ICA- Helsinki Biennial Blends Art With Environment
13 August 2021
Gertrude Stein: a rose is a rose is a rose, a homage to the iconic author’s role as patron, critic, and friend to the creative pioneers who paved the way to Modernism
3 June 2021
Wow! This show is a real blockbuster! Spread out in the main exhibition galleries of the Royal Academy. It gives an excellent idea of who Picasso was, what he did, and why he is so centrally important to the story of Modern and Contemporary art.
22 January 2020
Pablo Picasso’s Bust of a Woman (1944) on view at the Tate Modern has been removed from display and is undergoing conservation after a member of the public damaged the work.
1 January 2020
Reopening
Picasso didn’t just draw on paper – he tore it, burnt it, and made it three-dimensional. From studies for ‘Guernica’ to a 4.8-metre-wide collage, this exhibition brings together more than 300 works on paper spanning the artist’s 80-year career.
Thursday to Sunday 11am-4pm
In 1998 the first sales of the Dora Maar collection were put on sale in Paris. They revealed a life dedicated to photography, painting and poetry, executed in the city’s avant-garde milieu of the 1930s.
20 November 2019
The influx of immigrants into any vernacular urban culture has always been a gamechanger, and there is no better example than Paris at the turn of the 20th century.
22 September 2019
A newly curated exhibition brings together some of the most notable names of the 20th century’s Avant-Garde scene, for the first time, at the spectacular Louvre Abu Dhabi.
14 August 2019
Billed as the first-ever COLLAGE survey exhibition in the world, this Edinburgh Festival fun extravaganza of 400 years of cut and paste art encompasses Picasso to Monty Python, Victorian valentines to Andy Warhol, Max Ernst to Peter Blake, Cindy Sherman, Robert Rauschenberg – and of course today’s Photoshop.
1 August 2019
It wasn’t the billion dollar sale that Christie’s optimistically predicted but it was an evening of fierce bidding and record prices for both Matisse and the stalwart of Impressionism Monet.
9 May 2018
Overshadowed by iconic images from Picasso 1932 and Bacon/Freud two of the Tate’s current exhibitions feature powerfully expressive crucifixion images.
15 April 2018
A new photography exhibition of work by Lee Miller at The Lightbox gallery and museum in Woking will display a rarely-seen, carefree side to the iconic artist, Pablo Picasso.
4 April 2018
Today (8th March) is International Women’s Day, it’s also the public opening of the new Picasso exhibition at Tate Modern. For those of you familiar with Picasso and his self-mythologized monster; you may need to read that sentence again.
8 March 2018
