Tag: Picasso

Theatre Picasso

A playful exhibition of Picasso’s work at Tate Modern highlights the performative nature of the artist and his world
Dora Maar

This fascinating exhibition explores the long and varied career of the surrealist photographer and shows that her work went far beyond her links to Picasso
Jackson Pollock’s Mural: Energy Made Visible

Mural, Pollock’s largest-ever painting, has been credited with breaking the ice for abstract expressionism. This exhibition explores the context in which it was produced and its effect on the contemporary art world
‘Oswaldo Vigas said he found the root of his work in ancient culture’

At an exhibition of Oswaldo Vigas’s work in Bogotá, his son Lorenzo talked about his father’s love of people, how mythology and witchcraft shaped his output, and his friendship with Picasso
Chris Martin: ‘When you’re outside, you can have a truly gigantic studio’

New York City-based artist Chris Martin, whose works were recently on show at the Anton Kern Gallery, talks about painting outside in the woods in Walton, how he gets his inspiration, and why he loves glitter so much
Bruegel to Freud: Prints from the Courtauld Gallery

Courtauld Gallery, London 19 June – 21 September 2014
For Art’s Own Sake

Bohemia may be a state of mind, but it found its most attractive enactment in fin de siècle Paris, inspired by Henry Murger’s 1851 classic Scènes de la Vie de Bohème
David Smith: Personage

Gagosian Gallery, London 2 November-9 December 2006
The Steins Collect. Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avant-Garde

When Leo Stein settled in Paris in late 1902 it was with the same romantic intention, as so many before him, to become an artist. Dutifully he spent hours at the Louvre and Musée du Luxembourg, enrolled in art classes…
Picasso: the Mediterranean Years (1945-62)

Gagosian Gallery, Britannia St, London 4 June–28 August 2010