All posts tagged "Picasso"
Art
The Barnes Foundation: Beauty Surrounded by Controversy
April 8, 2025And what a treasure trove! By the time of his death in 1951, Barnes had purchased...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa by R.A. Scotti
March 29, 2025Not quite a century ago, on August 29, 1911, thousands of people began flocking to the...
Art
Art Review: Picasso Black and White
October 17, 2024The Guggenheim Museum in New York City is the perfect venue for hosting great chronological exhibitions...
Art
Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde
August 15, 2024The overall sensation evoked by examining the works on display in “Cezanne to Picasso,” however, is...
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Art & Design
The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
July 8, 2024Explaining the daring additions of paintings by Matisse and Picasso to the Stein collection, Leo wrote...
Books
Book Review: Some of My Lives: A Scrapbook Memoir by Rosamond Bernier
June 26, 2024Rosamond’s very early experiences with the great and famous were connected with her father’s love for...
Art
Art Review: Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O’Keeffe, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
May 27, 2024Beginning with paintings, drawings and a limited number of sculptures by such “wild men” as Matisse,...
Art
Art Review: Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore
April 15, 2024While Robinson’s depiction of a pensive young woman in a sylvan setting hardly seems revolutionary today,...
Art
Art Review: Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918-1936
March 4, 2024Chaos and Classicism tells the story of good intentions that went terribly wrong. After the carnage...
Art
Larry Rivers, NYU, and Child Pornography
February 18, 2024How should we respond, however, when sexual abuse is the subject of a piece and a...
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