Born in Malaga, in 1881, the son of an artist, Picasso revolutionized Modern art and become perhaps the most influential painter of the 20th-century. His works, despite their modernity, were a ...

THE caretaker peers through the peephole in the front gate of the walled villa overlooking Cannes, disappears, then returns to admit the visitor. A dark-haired, handsome woman in blue pants emerges ...

The Museum of Modern Art in New York City is a citadel of art and money, and sometimes taste, too. An understanding of both aesthetics and finance rarely exists in a single person, and so museums and ...

Pablo Picasso rampaged like a minotaur through modern art’s china shop. He almost single-handedly invented Cubism, and he imposed his protean creativity on painting, drawing, sculpture, collage, ...

When Pablo Picasso was asked to paint the centerpiece for Spain's pavilion at the 1937 World's Fair, no one expected him to create what remains one of art's most disquieting depictions of war. But ...

Forget Hefner and his Girls Next Door – Picasso is the playboy of modern celebrity culture. And his ghost, along with the jumbo “Picasso and American Art” exhibition at Walker Art Center, will oblige ...

It is not often that artists surprise us long after they die, but there are some notable exceptions. Think: Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt, Van Gogh and Picasso. Underneath Pablo Picasso's famous Blue ...

When Sophie Calle was 6 years old, her father framed a drawing she made. Her grandmother responded enthusiastically, declaring that there appeared to be “a Picasso in the family.” Sophie Calle covers ...

A French charity is raffling Picasso’s 1941 portrait “Tête de femme,” valued at more than 1 million euros, for €100 a ticket ...

Pablo Picasso’s “Night Fishing at Antibes” (1939) at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (all photos Hakim Bishara/Hyperallergic) A quick perusal of the headlines these days is enough for one to ...

I’ve heard the words, “but a child can do it,” uttered many times in museums. It’s the immediate response for many people when they view a work of abstract art, particularly work by Picasso. In fact, ...

Given the variety of sizes and genres of the many works on display in it, the name of the Cleveland Museum of Art’s long-awaited new ticketed exhibition, “Picasso and Paper,” would seem to be ...