A Cubist Commission in Brooklyn at The Met is a compact, simple display, but the work and research it contains is diminished by being so cut off from its historical and personal contexts.
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Museum Lifts Ban on Photographing Picasso’s “Guernica”
You can now take a picture of the famous work at Madrid’s Museo Reina Sofía, but don’t even think about using a selfie stick.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Personal Art Collection Is Up for Auction
A Josef Albers screenprint, ceramics by Picasso, and contemporary Indigenous artworks are all going under the hammer
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Norway Will Demolish Building Famous for Its Picasso Murals
While the government promises to preserve the Picasso murals to be utilized in a new building, preservationists are unmoved.
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Facebook Censors Montreal Museum of Fine Art’s Ad Featuring Nude Picasso Painting
Picasso’s subjects are often nude, but it’s not like they’re trying to meddle in the U.S. presidential elections. Why censor them, Facebook?
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Explore “Guernica” with a Sprawling Visual Timeline
Two years of comprehensive research by the Reina Sofia have yielded a huge amount of material related to the legendary painting and the cultural responses it’s generated over time.
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Canada’s Newest Contemporary Art Museum Opens in Saskatoon
A new museum hopes to connect this small Canadian city to the world through a rich program that will include indigenous and international contemporary art.
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Chicago Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Its Picasso Sculpture, a Gift Many Residents Didn’t Want
When it was unveiled, people protested the Chicago Picasso and called it a “colossal booboo.” Now it’s become a beloved icon.
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A London Gallery Threw Me Out Over a Picasso
LONDON — In case you were in any doubt as to the true source of authority in the art world today, we now have an answer.
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From Birthday to Funeral, Rare Footage of Picasso Surfaces in AP Archives
How did Pablo Picasso celebrate his 80th birthday?
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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.
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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.
