Pablo Picasso

"Bust of a smiling woman," 1901, by Pablo Picasso, at the Reina Sofía Museum. 

The Picasso paradox: Museums grapple with how to remember the artist’s complicated legacy

Arts, Culture & Media

Fifty years after his death, some organizers have insisted on revisiting the artist Pablo Picasso in a new light, with exhibits and conversations focused on his problematic relationship with women.

Mira T. Lee, author of “Everything Here is Beautiful.”

Girl before ‘Girl Before a Mirror’

Books
People fly into the air as a vehicle is driven into a group of protesters demonstrating against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017.

Is Ryan Kelly’s Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph an American ‘Guernica’?

Arts

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Expert says Rotterdam art heist likely an inside job, linked to drug trade

Arts, Culture & Media

Tens of millions of dollars worth of art was stolen from a Rotterdam art museum last week and now signs are emerging that the entire thing may have been connected to illegal drugs. But a security expert says it also likely was done by someone with inside knowledge.

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Leave It to Beaver

The American Beaver is an agile engineer, and writer Mark Seth Lender applauds its skill.

Picasso Portrait in Palestinian Territory

Arts, Culture & Media

A cubist portrait called “Buste de Femme” is creating buzz in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

Leave it to Beaver

Writer Mark Lender reflects on the American Beaver as a skilled and agile engineer.

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Picasso sold for record price

Arts, Culture & Media

Pablo Picasso’s 1932 painting “Nude, Green Leaves and Bust,” was sold to an anonymous phone bidder for $106.5 million in New York on Tuesday, the most expensive piece of artwork sold at auction.

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