See Picasso collection art directed by Sir Paul Smith
It is fifty years since Pablo Picasso died, on 8th April 1973 at Notre-Dame-de-Vie, his home in Mougins.
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Plates
Plates are a rather convenient way to display art, somewhere between ceramic – for the most part, though metals are possible – and painting. Ceramics are in vogue anyway, and as functional objects go, plates are easy to display. In ascending order of price, here are three recent initiatives which have stepped up to the plate:
Review: Picasso and Paper at the Royal Academy of Arts
Despite the wealth of museums and galleries worldwide exhibiting Picasso, the Royal Academy of Arts has managed to create an exhibition which looks at the maestro’s work with fresh eyes. Picasso and Paper features over 300 works
Opening this Saturday Picasso and Paper at the Royal Academy of Arts
This month the Royal Academy of Arts to present Picasso and Paper, the most comprehensive exhibition devoted to Picasso’s imaginative and original uses of paper ever to be held.
Picasso Through the Lens of David Douglas Duncan’ gives a remarkable insight into the work and life of Picasso.
Pablo Picasso Through the Lens of David Douglas Duncan’ gives a remarkable insight into the work and life of Picasso.
“Picasso: Birth of a Genius” will be the largest exhibition of his work in China ever
“Picasso – Birth of a Genius”—the most significant exhibition of work by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) ever to take place in China—will be presented at UCCA
Picasso’s Visual Puns
Picasso isn’t strongly associated with setting up ambiguity in his paintings in the same systematic way as Dali is through his ‘paranoiac critical’ method in which elephants become swans etc. However, a couple of motifs from the tremendous show at the Tate may change your mind..
MoMA heads to Paris this Autumn touching down at Fondation Louis Vuitton
The Museum of Modern Art is heading to the Frank Gehry-designed Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris this October. For an exceptional exhibition devoted to the unrivaled collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
REVIEW: Picasso: Minotaurs and Matadors – sex and death in the bullring
Gagosian, London
The macho man of Spanish painting was obsessed with bulls. For him they were symbols of mythic power, but also impotence and mortality
Art Revolutionaries an exhibition featuring Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Alexander Calder and Julio González comes to London.
Art Revolutionaries is an exhibition inspired by the Spanish Pavilion at the 1937 Paris Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne, commemorating 80 years since its inauguration
Jeffrey Deitch and Larry Gagosian hook up for Art Basel Miami Beach
For Art Basel Miami Beach, Jeffrey Deitch and Larry Gagosian are hooking up to present “Desire,” an exhibition curated by Diana Widmaier-Picasso, at the Moore Building in the Miami Design District.
Francis Bacon’s painting gloves are going to auction
The paint-splattered gloves are proof that we worship artists’ relics – from Turner’s paintbox to Pollock’s brushes – as traces of genius in their own right
How 2015 may have marked the end of the art market’s boom years
New records were set at auction, but overall the art market cooled as the frenzy around young artists subsided and collectors in Russia and Brazil felt the pinch
Saturday FUN: New Book Iconic Artists and Their Cats
Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Frida Kahlo, so many great artists have one very furry thing in common: cats.
Paul’s ART STUFF ON A TRAIN #143: ‘What Is and Is Not Present’
Armin Boehm: ‘Gravity’, 2015 – oil and fabrics on wood: 110 x 70 cm Assessment of a curation has two… Read More
ART OPENING: Shapero Modern inaugural exhibition opens Tuesday 25th November 2014
Shapero Modern is to present as its inaugural exhibition, Natural Selection, a group show highlighting the importance of the study of nature from the Seventeenth Century to the present day.
ART NEWS: Legendary Magnum Photographer René Burri Dies at 81
Leaving behind a significant body of work, FAD takes a moment to remember legendary photographer René Burri
PLAY :The Art Game: Artists’ Trump Cards
You can now pit your favourite artists against each other,
ART STUFF on a plane # 19: ‘Where is the Picasso Museum?’
Most days art Critic Paul Carey-Kent spends hours on the train – though this week it was a plane to the South of France. Could he, we asked, jot down whatever came into his head?
Picasso in Paris: raw works of genius from the artist as a young man
A scintillating new show at London’s Courtauld Gallery follows a coming-of-age Picasso as he dips his paintbrush into the colourful underworld of Montmartre
Dutch art heist suspects arrested
three men suspected of the theft of seven paintings by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Gaugin
WIN: Freedom not Genius – Works from Damien Hirst’s Murderme Collection we have TEN copies for you to WIN.
WIN: About Freedom Not Genius a book about Damien Hirst’s Murderme Collection.
A Monet for £27m? The real price of the art boom is its sleaziness
As a Christie’s sale is criticised for not offering enough ‘trophy property’, it’s clear to see what the art world has become