The Art Newspaper

An expert’s guide to late Pablo Picasso: five must-read books on the second half of the Spanish artist’s career

The best publications about Picasso's later years, from an esteemed biography to a book about his animal drawings—selected by the curators Dieter Buchhart and Anna Karina Hofbauer ...
The Art Newspaper

Pablo Picasso: personal and political collide in lively fourth volume of detailed biography

“Of all the problems besetting Picasso in late 1932,” the fourth volume of John Richardson’s A Life of Picasso begins, “foremost was the misery of married life with his Russian wife Olga”. Unshielded ...
Moviefone

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential ...
Artnet

Art Historian John Richardson, Who Wrote the Definitive Four-Volume Biography on Picasso, Has Died at 95

British art historian John Richardson, known for his multi-volume biography of Pablo Picasso, died today at age 95. A representative from Knopf, Richardson’s publisher, confirmed the news. The ...
The Washington Post

The third volume of Picasso's biography is wickedly, even sinfully, entertaining.

Note the article: This is "a" life, not "the" life of Picasso (1881-1973). That refusal of the magisterial -- a word already used by critics to describe this ongoing biography -- is honest and ...
Artnet

How the Many Dilemmas of Hannah Gadsby’s Anti-Picasso Show Feed Our Contemporary Cultural Doom Loop

Pablo Picasso, The Sculptor (1931) in "It's Pablo-matic." Photo by Ben Davis. To read Part 1 of “It’s Hannah-matic,” click here. Art museums, incidentally, do have a problem with over-romanticizing ...