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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: A €25-million Picasso painting is seized aboard a superyacht, the designer of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games logo is accused of plagiarism, and a hitchhiking robot is destroyed.
Pablo Picasso
Opinion
From Birthday to Funeral, Rare Footage of Picasso Surfaces in AP Archives
How did Pablo Picasso celebrate his 80th birthday?
Art
Staring Back: 400 Years of Portraits at the Morgan
Life Lines: Portrait Drawings from Dürer to Picasso at the Morgan Library & Museum may not venture very far beyond canonical European artists, but it uncovers richness and diversity within a circumscribed field, especially in the work of its two anchors, Albrecht Dürer and Pablo Picasso.
Art
Mapping the Most Expensive Artworks Sold by Country
A new series of maps created by howmuch.net attempts to look at art valuation based on country of origin.
Art
Modern and Somber Paintings by a Veteran of the First World War
BEAUVAIS, FRANCE — This spring the Musée de l’Oise (MUDO) in Beauvais has helped an artist make his way toward the light, only after eight decades of dark oblivion.
In Brief
Fox News Bizarrely Censors $179M Picasso Painting
Apparently the price paid for Picasso's "Women of Algiers" (1955) on Monday is not the most obscene thing about it.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: Jonathan Meese acquitted in Nazi salute dispute, Picasso works disappear in transit, and Charles Saatchi sues Saatchi Art for Saatchi name.
Art
A Universe of Drawing, Rolled into a Single Room
Ten years ago, the Morgan Library & Museum decided it was time to bring its collection up to speed on the art of drawing in the 20th and 21st centuries — a daunting task in itself, and even more improbable in the face of a superheated, late-capitalist art market: at the feast of the trophy-eaters, w
Art
The Private Language of Painting, Revealed in Artists’ Images of Their Studios
Gagosian has done it again: produced another museum-quality show, this one devoted to images of artists’ studios, as recorded in photographs (on view at its uptown gallery) and in paintings (installed at West 21st Street).
Art
The Picassos of ...
As an increasingly globalized monoculture takes hold, people often resort to using celebrities and innovators as their barometers of success.
News
Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: college art thief fails, Romanian minister gets Picasso bribes, and Versace rips off a designer's shirt.
Art
Ephemera, Wives, Paint: Cézanne & Picasso
Masters of painting are occupying major venues in New York this winter. Egon Schiele at the Neue Galerie, Matisse cutouts at MoMA. In addition, the rival Picasso exhibitions at Gagosian and Pace are noteworthy, as is Madame Cézanne at the emblazoned, tarnished Met.