Should Great Artists Be Cancelled For Bad Or Inappropriate Behaviour
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
Picasso
Pablo Picasso: Top Ten Seminal Paintings – The Critical Eye – Artlyst
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
Sir Paul Smith’s Sublime Homage To Picasso – Musée National Picasso – Paris
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
More Restitution Problems For Picasso, Van Gogh And British Museum Antiquities
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
Colour And Art History On A Paris Road Trip – James Payne
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 Permanently Removes Sackler Name From Buildings – Picasso Guernica Tapestry Returns To UN – Henry Darger Estate Rights Dispute
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
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 And The Birth Of Modernism Explored At Nahmad Projects
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
Picasso Exhibition Triumphs With Rarely Seen Works On Paper – Edward Lucie-Smith
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 Painting Vandalised At Tate Modern
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
Picasso and Paper
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
Dora Maar: Shedding The Muse Label – Sue Hubbard
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
School of Paris Rendez-Vous at Louvre Abu Dhabi – Paul Carter Robinson
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
Louvre Abu Dhabi To Exhibit French 20th Century Avant-Garde Emigrant Artists
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
Cut And Paste: NGS Launches First-Ever Collage Survey Exhibition – Clare Henry
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
Rockefeller Sale Misses Billion Dollar Mark Despite Monet And Matisse Records
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
Picasso To Souza: The Crucifixion Imagery Rarely Exhibited – Revd Jonathan Evens
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
Lee Miller: Private Photographs Of Picasso On Display At Lightbox
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
Tate’s Big Faux-Pas: Picasso Exhibition Opens On International Women’s Day
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
Pablo Picasso: Genius Or Just Another Misogynistic Pig – Edward Lucie-Smith
With Pablo Picasso 1932 – Tate Modern’s major exhibition for the first half of this year – ready to open (March 8th), the drumbeats are already beginning.
6 March 2018
Picasso Portrait Painted The Same Year As Guernica To Be Auctioned
Pablo Picasso’s Femme au béret et à la robe quadrillée (Marie-Thérèse Walter), goes under the hammer at Sotheby’s after an… Read More
14 January 2018
Picasso 1932 – Love, Fame, Tragedy
This is the first ever solo Pablo Picasso exhibition at Tate Modern. It will bring you face-to-face with more than 100 paintings, sculptures and drawings, mixed with family photographs and rare glimpses into his personal life.
Sunday to Thursday 10.00–18.00 Friday to Saturday 10.00–22.00
Peggy and David Rockefeller Auction Revealed In Hong Kong Exhibition
Highlights from what many have dubbed the sale to watch in 2018, the collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller has been revealed by Christie’s.
22 November 2017
Picasso As Minotaur: Gagosian London By Edward Lucie-Smith
The Picasso: Minotaurs and Matadors show now on view at Gagosian Grosvenor Hill neatly pips Tate Modern to the post. On 8th May Tate Modern unveils Picasso 1932 – Love, Fame Tragedy, its first ever solo show devoted to this most celebrated of all Modern Movement artists.
4 May 2017
Picasso: Minotaurs and Matadors
The exhibition examines the intersection of Picasso’s bullfighting imagery with his mythological and biographical compositions of the 1930s. Including works dating from 1889 to 1971, this career-long survey traces Picasso’s engagement with the ancient rituals and narratives of his native Mediterranean.
Hours: Tue–Sat 10-6
Important Picasso Muse Dora Maar Portrait To Be Sold At Christie’s
Femme assise, robe bleue by Pablo Picasso will go under the hammer at Christie’s NY as a highlight of its Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale (Estimate: $35,000,000-50,000,000).
31 March 2017
Paris Art Thieves Receive 21 Years Collectively For Hundred Million Heist
The trial of the 2010 ‘Spider-Man’ burglary at the Musee d’Art Moderne in Paris has concluded securing an eight year sentence for 49-year-old Serbian mastermind Vjeran Tomic.
21 February 2017
Stolen Modigliani – Spider Man Thief Vjeran Tomic Goes On Trial
The trial of the art thief known as ‘Spider-Man’ has begun in Paris. The 2010 burglary at the Musee d’Art Moderne included masterpieces by Modigliani, Picasso, Braque and Matisse.
30 January 2017
Picasso Portraits – master of transformations at National Portrait Gallery by Edward Lucie-Smith
The Picasso portrait show now at the National Portrait Gallery and the big Abstract Expressionist exhibition on offer at the Royal Academy are both worth a visit.
25 October 2016
Picasso Portraits – master of transformations at National Portrait Gallery by Edward Lucie-Smith
London is unusually rich in important exhibitions at the moment, and sometimes these events seem to enter into a dialogue… Read More
15 October 2016
Picasso Blue Period Painting Achieves Record Price At Sotheby’s
A record price has been achieved for a blue period Picasso at Sotheby’s in New York. La Gommeuse, painted in Paris in… Read More
8 November 2015
Sexism In Art: And What We Perceive As Acceptable Body Depictions
So, I was about to launch into thoughtful musings on that inexplicable relationship between artist and muse and how the… Read More
24 July 2015