“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
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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..
Continue Reading...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.
Continue Reading...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
Continue Reading...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.
Continue Reading...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
Continue Reading...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
Continue Reading...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.
Continue Reading...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 halves: what is there, and what isn’t? On the one hand, one could criticise S|2’s ‘The Nude in the XX & XXI Century’ (to 15 Jan) as little more than an excuse to sell a […]
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