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75 years of Picasso's Guernica: An Inconvenient Masterpiece

Alejandro Escalona | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Pablo Picasso, Hispanic Heritage, Guernica, Guernica Anniversary, Picasso, Latino Voices News
Alejandro Escalona

Guernica is to painting what Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is to music: a cultural icon that speaks to mankind not only against war but also of hope and peace. It is a reference when speaking about genocide from El Salvador to Bosnia.

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Huge Art Collection Completes Controversial Move

AP | By JOANN LOVIGLIO | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Barnes Collection, Cezanne, Controversy, Barnes Foundation, Ashcan School, Art Collection, Philadelphia, Picasso, Art Collector, Gaugin, Arts News

PHILADELPHIA -- The Barnes Foundation is no longer the greatest art collection you'll never see. Art aficionados and academics might never stop debat...

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Barcelona, One More Time (PHOTOS)

Sivan Askayo | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Barcelona Travel, Casa Mila, La Segrada Familia, International Destinations, Barcelona, Slidepollajax, Casa Batilo, Spain, Joan Miro, Picasso, Destinations, Spain Travel, Gaudi, Travel News
Sivan Askayo

It is not a hard thing to fall in love with Barcelona. In fact, it is quite easy.

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Man Gets Lucky, Finds Picasso Print Worth Thousands

AP | BARBARA RODRIGUEZ | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Video, Pablo Picasso, Thrift Shopping, Thrift Shop Find, Zach Bodish, Art Sales, Picasso, Money News

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- An unemployed Ohio man was browsing at his local thrift store for items he could restore and resell when he spotted a Picasso poster...

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Art Investments Beat Stocks, Real Estate Over Last Decade (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: 1 Percent, The Scream, Video, Art Investment, artvest.com, Stock Market Volatility, Edvard Munch, Art Market, World War II, Picasso, Sotheby's, Cnnmoney, Business News

Sick of losing your money in a volatile stock market? Start buying art instead. That’s been the strategy of the world’s wealthiest investor...

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Giddy Up! My Little Pony Rides Into Los Angeles

Susan Michals | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Hasbro, My Little Pony, Mark Mothersbaugh, Art News, Perez Hilton, Hello Kitty, Picasso, Give Kids the World, Los Angeles Art Exhibits, Los Angeles Art, Los Angeles Art Show, Arts News
Susan Michals

My Little Pony, the doe-eyed, sweet little pinnacle of sexually ambiguous innocence, will be the center of attention at Hasbro's MY LITTLE PONY Project 2012, a charity art exhibition.

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Palais de Tokyo: Building Toxic Art in Paris

Frank Browning | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Harlequin, Picasso, Manga, Palais De Tokyo Opens, Contemporary Art, Paris Art, Cincinnati Art, Palais De Tokyo, Arts News
Frank Browning

Contemporary art is no longer and can no longer be the special terrain of the aesthetic courtesans to remote powerful elites: it is the collective carnival gathering in which we are inundated by the sounds, sights and symbols of our current collective madness.

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A Spotify Playlist For Art Stars

Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Andy Warhol, Art Brut, Art, Art Playlist, Art Stars, Rene Magritte, Spotify Playlists, Songs About Art, Painting, Picasso, Spotify, Arts News

We had a very hard time making this playlist, dear readers, because there are innumerable songs about art in the world that merit your attention. Wher...

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Garage Sale Find Could Cost Coca-Cola Huge

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Andy Warhol, Coca-Cola, Garage Sale, Video, The Daily Mail, Palmer Union Oil Co., Tony Marohn, Treasure Hunting, ABC News, Picasso, Business News

One man's trash is another man's $130 million Coca-Cola stock certificate. In 2008, the now-deceased Tony Marohn bought a number of documents at a...

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Picasso And The 'The Eternal Feminine'

Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Guernica, Madrid, Fundación Canal, Guernica Magazine, Jaqueline Roque, Pablo Picasso, Lucy McKeon, Picasso, Pablo Picasso Prints, Female Nudes, Arts News

Madrid, March 2012: Entering the exhibit at the Fundación Canal, the prostitutes were still on my mind. I'd reached for my camera to take a pictur...

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The Week In Art

Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Mad Men, Video, Thrift-Store Picasso, Week in Art, Cezanne, Taschen, Weekend-Art-Roundup, Art-Roundup, Picasso, Gifs, Dain Fagerholm, Arts News

Greetings, readers! This week HuffPost Arts had a thrilling week complete with monsters, Mad Men and the best thrift store buy of all time. Scroll dow...

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Lucky Shopper Finds Picasso In Thrift Store

Posted 03.29.2012

Read More: US Economy, Thrift-Store-Finds, Luck, Video, Art, Picasso-Prints, Laid-Off-Workers, Exhibition Poster, US Economy Recession, Pablo Picasso, Picasso Thrift Store, Contemporary Art, Picasso, Linocut Print, Slidepollajax, Arts News

Zach Bodish had been up and down the aisles of the Volunteers of America thrift store many times before, but wasn't finding anything of interest... un...

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George Lois's Innovation Bible 'Damn Good Advice'

Andrea Chalupa | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Creativity, Artist Guide, Start-Ups, Design, Artist Advice, George Lois, Ad, Entrepreneurs, Innovation, Guernica, Picasso, Banksy, George Orwell, Mtv, Esquire, Andrea Chalupa, Satire, Designers, Branding, Artist, Innovation Advice, Innovation Guide, Slidepollajax, Damn Good Advice for People With Talent, Books News
Andrea Chalupa

Long considered a legend for giving Esquire's covers in the sixties the force of Picasso's "Guernica," Lois shares his 120 commandments for creativity in Damn Good Advice (for people with talent!).

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The Steins' Avant-Garde Collection Shows At The Met

Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Juan Gris, Maurice Denis, Cubism, Tender Buttons, Jacques Lipchitz, Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Henri Manguin, Elie Nadelman, Francis Picabia, André Masson, Metropolitan Museum of Art Gertrude Stein, Picasso, Pierre Bonnard, UK Arts, Stein Salon, Matisse, Henri Matisse, Steins Collect, New York Art Exhibitions, Midnight in Paris, Met Steins Collect, Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein, Marie Laurencin, Female Artists, Arts News

Anyone who has seen "Midnight In Paris" knows that the Stein house was the place to be if you were an aspiring artist, writer, musician or socialite. ...

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Man Gets Prison For A Wild Art-theft Spree

AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Wine Steward, Art Thief, Crime, Prison, Carlyle Hotel, Art Theft, Jail, Mark Lugo, Picasso, Hotel Theft, Fernand Leger, New York, Arts News

NEW YORK — A wine steward who served time in California after going on a bicoastal binge of plucking pricey art off gallery walls and using it t...

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Who Is The Most Stolen Artist?

Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Video, Picasso Art Theft, Art Loss Register, Art Theft, Art Crimes, Picasso, International-Art-Theft, Arts News

In a recent list the Art Loss Register compiled, Picasso ranks as the current 'most stolen' artist. In total, 1,147 of his paintings have gone missing...

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New York Art Dealer Charged In $4M Fraud

AP | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Robert Scott Cook, Auguste Renoir, Art Heist, Fine Art, Art Crimes, Picasso, Matisse, Art Dealer Charged, Henri Matisse, Fraud, Video, Art Fraud, Art Controversy, Pablo Picasso, Llc., Renoir, Arts News

NEW YORK — A New York art dealer has been charged in a $4 million fraud for selling works by Picasso, Matisse and others without informing the o...

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Move Over Picasso: New Top Auction Earner

Posted 01.13.2012

Read More: Andy Warhol, Video, Zhang Daqian, Art Auctions, Chinese Artists, Pablo Picasso, Picasso Auctions, Qi Baishi, Xu Beihong, Chinese Art, Chinese Art Auctions, Picasso, Auctions, Arts News

Chinese artist Zhang Daqian has knocked Picasso from a very high pedestal. The artist generated $506.7 million from auctions in 2011 alone. Close ...

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How Thieves Stole Priceless Paintings And Got Away With It

Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Piet Mondrian, Mondrian, Guglielmo Caccia, Video, Art Black Market, Greek National Gallery, Piet Mondrian Theft, Pablo Picasso, Art Theft, Black Market, Picasso, Museum Theft, Greek National Gallery Theft, Picasso Theft, Arts News

Thieves broke into Greece's National gallery early Monday morning and stole three works of art, including a Picasso and a Mondrian. Picasso's 1939 ...

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PHOTOS: Haiku Reviews: Art Gone Wild!

Posted 01.06.2012

Read More: Bergamot Station, Cubism, Peter Frank, Braque, Linda Stark, Lawrence Vittes, Picasso, Haiku Reviews, Vivaldi, Arts News

HuffPost Arts' Haiku Reviews are biweekly features where we invite critics to review exhibitions and performances in short form. Some will be in the t...

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Four Famous Artists in Stunning Exhibit at Getty Villa

Jay Weston | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Picabia, Picasso, Getty Museum, Leger, La Art, Marie-Therese Walter, Getty Villa, La Around Town, Dechirico, Modern Art, Los Angeles News
Jay Weston

If you haven't been to the Getty Villa in awhile, now is the time to plan a quick trip there. The current show is an exhibition of four giants of the modern art world: Pablo Picasso, Fernand Leger, Giorgio de Chirico, and Francis Picabia.

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PHOTOS: Picasso's Drawings Travel The US

Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: National Gallery, Cubism, Picasso's Drawings, Modernism, Pablo Picasso Drawing, Art in America, Pablo Picasso, Picasso, Collage, The Frick Collection, Arts News

Picasso's iconic works are embedded permanently in our collective art memories, yet there are so many pieces just as mesmerizing and innovative which ...

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Madrid: Colorful and Cosmopolitan

Fern Siegel | Posted 02.24.2012

Read More: Prado, Travel, Madrid, Almodovar, Picasso, Arts, Flamenco, Spain, Entertainment, Museums, Travel News
Fern Siegel

The euro may be playing havoc with Spain's economy, but someone forgot to tell Madrid. A vibrant, beautiful city, it is one of the most exciting destinations in Europe.

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Hotel Wants You To Steal A Banksy... And Keep It

Posted 12.08.2011

Read More: Art Promotion, Stealing Art, Art Heist, Art Series Hotel, Street Art, Art Challenge, Picasso, Melbourne, Banksy, Arts News

Most hotels will charge you an arm and a leg if you slip off the premises with one of their cheap, fuzzy robes, so why are they offering a Banksy work...

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Political Art Timeline, 1945-1966: Postwar Art of the Left

G. Roger Denson | Posted 02.02.2012

Read More: Elizabeth Catlett, Gillo Pontecorvo, Stanley Kubrick, Pop Art, Picasso, Komar and Melamid, Guy Debord, Political Art, The Gulag Archipelago, Jacob Lawrence, Feliks Topolski, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Minimalism, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Existentialism, Theresienstadt Camp, Felix Nussbaum, Shu Ogawara, Situationists, Holocaust Art, House Committee on UnAmerican Activities, Concentration Camp Artists, Vienna-Actionists, Simone De Beauvoir, Abstract Expressionism, Political Art Timeline, Arts News
G. Roger Denson

2011-12-03-Screenshot20111203at10.01.48AM.pngMost demarcations of historical epochs are necessarily vague. Not this one.

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