Given the countless exhibitions and the vast literature dedicated to Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), is there anything more to say? “Picasso: Painting the Blue Period,” at the Phillips Collection, affirms ...
What’s in a name? Let’s start off with a clear contention. Street Art, as I see it, is a period. Period. It is today just one of the many sub-groups housed within the larger category of Art, a period ...
Pablo Picasso's “The Soup,” 1903. (Art Gallery of Ontario/Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York) Review by Philip Kennicott “Picasso: Painting the Blue Period” sprawls out ...
An international partnership of the Northwestern University/Art Institute of Chicago Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts (NU-ACCESS), the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) and the National Gallery of ...
As the 50th anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s death approaches in 2023, news has poured in about conservation research into three Blue Period works. The fruits of this research are now being shared with ...
A captivating secret has emerged from one of Pablo Picasso’s most famous Blue Period paintings. Hidden beneath 'Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto' (1901) is an earlier painting of an enigmatic woman ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Cleveland Museum of Art enriched its collection of Korean art in its latest round of acquisitions by buying an exceedingly rare Buddhist painting from the Goryeo period (918–1392 ...
Spring, 1917. World War I ground grimly on. All the same, the famed impresario of the Ballet Russe, Sergei Diaghilev, commissioned a young poet, Jean Cocteau, to conceive a new ballet. At the time ...
In Kreuzlingen Switzerland, peasants have grown accustomed to a tall hollow-eyed man who takes long walks in the country with a watchful companion, never smiles, never speaks. A quietly dressed ...