Revisiting a painting show that “changed the art world, for better or worse.”
Pablo Picasso
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Picasso’s Pivotal Year
A show at the Tate Modern in London hones in on the artist’s diaristic relationship to his own work
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When Photorealism Meets Delacroix
Robert Bechtle’s photorealist pictures of suburban California resist exoticism as much as Delacroix’s paintings of Algerian harems.
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Les Demoiselles de Duck Soup (with Recipe)
No doubt your university art history lectures were always after lunch.
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The Rediscovery of Picasso’s Designs for a 100-Foot-Tall Bust in Florida
Pablo Picasso’s “Bust of a Woman” was once slated to appear on the campus of a Tampa-area university, and it would’ve been the world’s tallest concrete sculpture.
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Six Famous Paintings that Were Given New Names
Non-artists have renamed famous paintings before, and they certainly will again.
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New Picasso Museum Will Boast World’s Largest Collection of His Works
The Jacqueline and Pablo Picasso Museum will feature a collection of more than 2,000 works inherited by the artist’s stepdaughter.
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Michelangelo’s Divine Magnitude and Picasso’s Parade of Power
The intimate drawings of Michelangelo Buonarroti and the largest painting Pablo Picasso ever made.
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A Year in the Life of Pablo Picasso
An exhibition at the Musée National Picasso in Paris tracks the artist’s life and work, month-to-month, in 1932.
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Perpetuating the Idea that Modernism Triumphed by Appropriating “Tribal” Art
For all the scholarly expertise employed, an exhibition at Almine Rech Gallery comes off as an exasperating magical negro narrative.
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Books, Wefts, and Black Lives Matter at the Baltimore Museum of Art
The rewards of what is in plain sight far outweigh what is tucked away.
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In Search of Olga, Picasso’s Muse and First Wife
An exhibition at Paris’s Picasso Museum sheds new light on the woman mostly known through her husband’s gaze.