Pablo Picasso

Free Will Astrology: August 17-23, 2011

Mark Lugo, Who Stole a Picasso, Had Another Stolen Picasso Hanging on His Wall

Saddest mugshot ever?​Mark Lugo, the Hoboken man recently busted in a hotel in Napa for the theft of Picasso's 1965 "Tete de Femme" drawing, which he had snatched from San Francisco's Weinstein Gallery and then fled by taxi, is really more of a Thomas Crown than we had originally hoped for. Th ... More >>

What Does Bloomberg Think of Picasso?

New York Observer politics reporter Azi Paybarah brings us all this video of Mayor Bloomberg at a press conference this morning at New York City's Armory Art Show. "To change the topic, any thoughts on Picasso's Blue Period?" asks a reporter from the Paris Review. There's laughter and Bloomberg says ... More >>

Pablo Picasso's Electrician Was Either Very Lucky or Very Sneaky

​Pierre Le Guennec, a 71-year-old retired French electrician who installed burglar alarm systems in Pablo Picasso's various houses, has revealed that he has 271 previously unknown works from the artist, including "lithographs, cubist paintings, notebooks, and a watercolour" reports the BBC. Th ... More >>

"Girl Without a Face" Was a Hoax!

​I love the Discovery Channel/TLC lineup of half-ton teens, mermaid girls, and other human oddities trying to beat the odds while inspiring you through the chunk blowing. It makes me feel so thrilled to be me! But their "Born Without a Face" show was a complete joke. Bitch had a face!

Rineke Dijkstra's Kids Kid You Not

At Marian Goodman Gallery, the Dutch artist aims her lens on the faces and ways of youth

Morning Links: Obama State Dinner Free from Crashers, Stores Invade Cobble Hill, Shahzad Bewildered Over His Bomb

​• There were no party crashers at the second Obama state dinner last night. But Eva Longoria Parker and Whoopi Goldberg were there, as well as "bold shades of fuchsia, tangerine and crisp blue." Also, White House Chief of Protocol Capricia Penavic Marshall fell on the steps, and Michelle go ... More >>

Chinese Winemakers Go High-End; Anheuser-Busch to Make More Beer with Less Water

​After years of producing cheap, bad wine, Chinese winemakers are creating high-end offerings, catering to a an increasingly affluent and sophisticated Chinese consumer. [Wall Street Journal] Christie's has announced it will auction Pablo Picasso's portrait, "The Absinthe Drinker," for betwee ... More >>

'The Visible Vagina' at Francis M. Naumann and David Nolan; Ryan Wallace's 'Glean'; 'Hotwire Comics #3'

​After years of producing cheap, bad wine, Chinese winemakers are creating high-end offerings, catering to a an increasingly affluent and sophisticated Chinese consumer. [Wall Street Journal] Christie's has announced it will auction Pablo Picasso's portrait, "The Absinthe Drinker," for betwee ... More >>

I Will Not Read Your Fucking Script

We know you've been working very hard on your screenplay, but before you go looking for some professional feedback, you might keep in mind the following piece by A History of Violence screenwriter Josh Olson. ​I will not read your fucking script. That's simple enough, isn't it? "I will not ... More >>

Vik Muniz's 'Verso'; Tom Schmitt at Howard Scott; Johnston Forster at Rare

We know you've been working very hard on your screenplay, but before you go looking for some professional feedback, you might keep in mind the following piece by A History of Violence screenwriter Josh Olson. ​I will not read your fucking script. That's simple enough, isn't it? "I will not ... More >>

Nathan Carter

We know you've been working very hard on your screenplay, but before you go looking for some professional feedback, you might keep in mind the following piece by A History of Violence screenwriter Josh Olson. ​I will not read your fucking script. That's simple enough, isn't it? "I will not ... More >>

Vik Muniz's 'Verso'

We know you've been working very hard on your screenplay, but before you go looking for some professional feedback, you might keep in mind the following piece by A History of Violence screenwriter Josh Olson. ​I will not read your fucking script. That's simple enough, isn't it? "I will not ... More >>

Hugs and Kisses 52: Mick Turner

We know you've been working very hard on your screenplay, but before you go looking for some professional feedback, you might keep in mind the following piece by A History of Violence screenwriter Josh Olson. ​I will not read your fucking script. That's simple enough, isn't it? "I will not ... More >>

Digital Vandalism at Shafrazi Gallery

Too bad you missed the Guernica cake

Digital Vandalism at Shafrazi Gallery

Too bad you missed the Guernica cake

CARTOON CENTRAL

So many comic books, only three days

Free Will Astrology

So many comic books, only three days

Happiness Is Existential Ennui

Recommendations by R.C. Baker

The Spanish Artmada

Barcelona and the birth of the modern at the Met

I Lost It at the Guggenheim

Barcelona and the birth of the modern at the Met

Pablum Picasso

Moving beyond its current Picasso exhibit, a new vision for the Whitney

Black on Blonde

Moving beyond its current Picasso exhibit, a new vision for the Whitney

States of Flux

Moving beyond its current Picasso exhibit, a new vision for the Whitney

Requiescat in Pace

Moving beyond its current Picasso exhibit, a new vision for the Whitney

Playing It Straight

Alas, the Whitney now looks almost as conservative and canonical as the Modern

Morning Report 9/24/05
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Horoscope

Alas, the Whitney now looks almost as conservative and canonical as the Modern

People Will Talk

From 18th-century Berlin to 1940s Santa Monica, a dazzling array of artists and intellectuals

Sketchy Conception

Recipe for drama: Take one celebrity bio, add wisecracks, sex, ethical debate. Slice thin.

Art

Recipe for drama: Take one celebrity bio, add wisecracks, sex, ethical debate. Slice thin.

Art Openings and Closings

Recipe for drama: Take one celebrity bio, add wisecracks, sex, ethical debate. Slice thin.

August in July

Lamb that tastes positively Welsh at Bleecker Street bistro

Modern Mannerist

Modigliani overturned convention, then settled comfortably into one of his own making

Art

An artist's dual preoccupation with race and corporeality

Art as Salvation

A big, voluptuous show at the Whitney by a tortured artist who drew his way to greatness

Horoscope

A big, voluptuous show at the Whitney by a tortured artist who drew his way to greatness

Horoscope

A big, voluptuous show at the Whitney by a tortured artist who drew his way to greatness

The Art of War

A Brief History of Protest Art

MOMA's Boys

Friendship + Rivalry = Great Radical Art

Horoscope

Friendship + Rivalry = Great Radical Art

I, Picasso

Friendship + Rivalry = Great Radical Art

Fables and Fibs

Friendship + Rivalry = Great Radical Art

Only Subvert

Friendship + Rivalry = Great Radical Art

Theater

Friendship + Rivalry = Great Radical Art

Bad Art Has Never Looked So Good

Friendship + Rivalry = Great Radical Art

Finders and Keepers

Friendship + Rivalry = Great Radical Art

NY Mirror

Notes from an opening: 'Manhandled by security guard. Kept running into whiny B-list types— or maybe that was a mirror.'

Pot Stash

Notes from an opening: 'Manhandled by security guard. Kept running into whiny B-list types— or maybe that was a mirror.'

About a Boy

An Interview With Matthew Stadler