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What to See at Art Basel 2013

MutualArt | Posted 06.14.2013 | Arts
MutualArt

Art Basel, the world's most important contemporary art fair, returns this week for its 43rd edition (June 13-16) with over 300 galleries exhibiting the works of 4,000 Artists while 60,000 art lovers take the city by storm.

Happy Birthday, Henri Rousseau!

Posted 05.21.2013 | Arts

Today is the birthday of French painter and Post-Impressionist mastermind, Henri Rousseau. Known for his fanciful jungle landscapes and primitivist wo...

National Gallery's "Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes" Exhibit Also Reveals the Vision of Robert Joffrey

Susan Dormady Eisenberg | Posted 05.20.2013 | Arts
Susan Dormady Eisenberg

Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev assembled the finest dancers, choreographers, scenic artists, and composers of the early twentieth century to launch the iconic ballet company whose legacy is now on display at the National Gallery of Art.

The Phoenix Rises

Lin Evola | Posted 05.21.2013 | Arts
Lin Evola

In 1969 I came to visit a place that would become my home. My whole generation fell in love with this city by the sea. We pushed every limit, made many mistakes, opened Pandora's Box never to have it closed again -- for good and for bad.

Why Those Without Kids Should Never Give Parenting Advice

John Blumenthal | Posted 04.30.2013 | Fifty
John Blumenthal

My daughters are grown up now -- both of them in their mid-twenties, both well-adjusted and successful -- but I remember receiving a lot of unsolicited (and mostly misguided) advice and criticism from childless people regarding the way my wife and I were raising them.

8 Impressive Hotel Art Collections Worth A Visit

Oyster | Posted 04.19.2013 | Travel
Oyster

When traveling around the world, tourists often have famed art museums on their lists of must-see attractions. But what if the hotel they're staying i...

Inventing Abstraction at MOMA

Francis Levy | Posted 06.01.2013 | Arts
Francis Levy

Inventing Abstraction is only on view until April 15, and even if an objectionable premise has been the occasion to bring these seminal works together, they are well worth seeing.

The Picassos Are Here!

VernissageTV | Posted 05.17.2013 | Arts
VernissageTV

The exhibition The Picassos Are Here! at Kunstmuseum Basel is not just another Picasso retrospective. The singular exhibition tells the story of the l...

New Picasso Piece Discovered!

theolivepress.es | Posted 02.27.2013 | Arts
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STAFF restoring one of Picasso's oldest works have discovered an even earlier portrait hidden on its backing card. Workers at Barcelona's Picasso M...

In Search of Picasso's Corpse

Carole Mallory | Posted 04.23.2013 | Books
Carole Mallory

I thought about my days as an art teacher in Lower Merion, Pennsylvania, and how my students would have loved to have been here with us.

Picasso And Chicago

AP | By CARYN ROUSSEAU | Posted 02.19.2013 | Arts

CHICAGO -- A century after the Art Institute of Chicago became the first American museum to show work by Pablo Picasso, the institution is celebrating...

Scientists Use X-Rays To Solve Longstanding Picasso Mystery

The Huffington Post | Meredith Bennett-Smith | Posted 02.10.2013 | Science

Scientists and art experts have teamed up to help solve a longstanding debate about Picasso's methods and materials. The team, nicknamed "Picasso C...

Inside Information With a Twist

Bruce Helander | Posted 04.10.2013 | Arts
Bruce Helander

Homage to the Creative Spirit, the new book on the extraordinary paintings of Jenness Cortez, which was just published and accompanies her current exhibit at DeBruyne Fine Art in Naples, Florida, has to rank as one of the most beautiful art books of the year.

The Day They Focus Grouped Picasso

Michael Rosenblum | Posted 03.27.2013 | TV
Michael Rosenblum

Why do we, despite the billions of dollars spent on TV and the billions of hours devoted to it, continue to produce garbage? Because creativity requires a personal vision.

It's About to Get Surreal

Schuyler Brown | Posted 03.22.2013 | Business
Schuyler Brown

The gift of Surrealism is its power to suggest alternate realities, realities that defy explanation, that are intensely personal and communal at the same time, realities that are as porous and fluid as our reality actually is.

Five CafƩs in Paris That Would Make Picasso Proud

Party Earth | Posted 02.25.2013 | Home
Party Earth

In the age of the Internet cafƩ and free WiFi at Starbucks, we at Party Earth were wondering, where can you get that old school "I'll take three hours to drink this artisan lattƩ" experience?

Lady Gaga: An Avatar for Our Times?

Gillian Schutte | Posted 02.06.2013 | Arts
Gillian Schutte

Gaga is an icon that is not meant to be understood or defined. Certainly, she has done more to engage the world in a speculative debate about what she is than any of her predecessors who, though complex, were much easier to pigeonhole. Gaga, it seems, is indefinable.

Strolling the Gallery

Lisa K. Friedman | Posted 01.20.2013 | Fifty
Lisa K. Friedman

At a recent exhibition of 'the masters,' I strolled past the paintings of landscapes and bowls of fruit and found myself in a Botticelli.

Finding Your Muse in Provence

J. Michael Welton | Posted 01.01.2013 | Arts
J. Michael Welton

High atop a hill in the tiny town of Lacoste, overlooking the Luberon Valley in the south of France, the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) has restored 33 precious stone buildings dating from the 16th to the 18th centuries.

PHOTOS: Who Is The Man In Painting HIdden Under This Early Picasso?

Posted 10.25.2012 | Arts

Under the faint grays, blues and yellows of 'Woman Ironing,' a 1904 piece painted during Picasso's Blue period modeled after a Degas painting of the ...

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso: "EU rescued people's savings"

Elisabeth Braw | Posted 11.25.2012 | World
Elisabeth Braw

European federation, Greek bailout - and artists. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso remains in the center of the European storm. And, he says, the solution to the current crisis is more integration.

Yer Cheatin' Art, Part II: Conversation With an Art Forger

Janice Harper | Posted 11.24.2012 | Arts
Janice Harper

Like a method actor who lives the role he plays with such intensity and focus that he begins to instinctively move and think like the character he is playing, an art forger needs to channel his ancestral muse so that he can envision a convincing -- and compelling -- fabrication.

Hamptons Journal: The History of Art and the Big Apple Circus

Regina Weinreich | Posted 11.03.2012 | Entertainment
Regina Weinreich

Audrey Flack and the History of Art String Band offers a crash course in such giant art figures as Caravaggio, Camille Claudel, Lee Krasner, Van Gogh, Picasso, Mary Cassat, and Jackson Pollock.

If Historical Figures Had Posted on Facebook...

John Blumenthal | Posted 10.30.2012 | Comedy
John Blumenthal

Napoleon: Hey guys, has anyone ever been to Elba?

No Picasso For You, Says UK

AP | Posted 08.20.2012 | Arts

LONDON -- Britain has temporarily barred the export of an early painting by Pablo Picasso valued at 50 million pounds ($78 million) in a bid to keep i...