Everything is a blank canvas to a toddler with a thick felt tip When it comes to appreciating art, genius really is in the eye of the beholder The Guardian - UK · Mar 9, 2025
What links Pablo Picasso, William Bligh and CS Lewis? The Saturday Quiz From rambling rhetoric and ‘the weave’ to the proverbially feeble, test your knowledge with the Saturday Quiz The Guardian - UK · Mar 8, 2025
Jason Kidd Can’t Stop Talking About How Good Luka Doncic Is at Basketball Jason Kidd compared Luka Doncic to Picasso before his first game against the Mavericks. Sports Illustrated · Feb 26, 2025
Crystal Is Having a Moment — Meet the New Take on 'Old-Fashioned' Glassware Found on Every Cool-Kid Table Right Now Forget the club: dinner parties are the new nightlife, and a surge of subversive crystal is leading the charge Livingetc · Feb 24, 2025
Workshop producing fake Picassos and Rembrandts found in Rome Prosecutors seize 71 canvases and say evidence suggests an art restorer was behind frauds The Guardian - UK · Feb 19, 2025
Goya to Impressionism review – three salmon steaks blow the soppy jugs and flowers away Is there an ulterior motive to this drearily grand exhibition of paintings borrowed from a Swiss collection? Could it be to show how vastly superior the Courtauld’s own works are? The Guardian - UK · Feb 12, 2025
Jeff Koons meets Picasso: The king of kitsch takes on a modern master Reflections. Picasso / Koons, the Museo Picasso’s latest exhibition specially staged at the Alhambra, brings together two artistic giants in conversation The Independent UK · Feb 2, 2025
Reading Picasso’s Guernica like a comic strip offers a new way to understand the story it is telling Guernica by Pablo Picasso is one of the most famous artworks of the 20th century. The painting is huge and violent, and when it was first displayed in 1937 it was considered absolutely groundbreaking. The Conversation · Jan 21, 2025
‘Jean-Paul Sartre hid at her house!’ The forgotten brilliance of Hélène de Beauvoir, sister of Simone She was a painter ‘ahead of her time’, counting Picasso as a fan. But Hélène de Beauvoir was always overshadowed by her famous sister. Now, with a show opening in Britain, the artist is finally receiving her due The Guardian - UK · Jan 20, 2025
TV tonight: Joe Lycett and David O’Doherty’s dreamy Spanish holiday The comedians eat and drink their way around Málaga. Plus: Brie Larson talks to Graham Norton about her West End show. Here’s what to watch this evening The Guardian - UK · Jan 10, 2025
Aberdeen unveils programme of events for 2025 including Spectra and Tall Ship Race ABERDEEN has unveiled its cultural events programme for the new year. The National (Scotland) · Jan 4, 2025
Jeff Koons on why he has drawn a red line on AI in art: ‘I don’t want to be lazy’ World’s most expensive artist, who is exhibiting at the Alhambra in Granada, sees his work as embedded in biology The Guardian - UK · Jan 1, 2025
David Hockney plays with our perception of fine art in Palm Springs 'David Hockney: Perspective Should Be Reversed' is currently on show at the Palm Springs Art Museum Wallpaper · Dec 31, 2024
Nonfiction to look out for in 2025 From a river voyage with Robert Macfarlane to Helen Garner’s candid tale of a broken marriage, via Ian Leslie’s analysis of Lennon and McCartney’s complicated kinship, here are the titles you can’t afford to miss The Guardian - UK · Dec 29, 2024
The Guardian - UK · Dec 26, 2024 Sensual surrealism, Kiefer’s delights and Gehry’s Guggenheim: the best art and architecture shows to visit in 2025 Anselm Kiefer’s homage to Van Gogh, Ithell Colquhoun’s seaside of surrealism and Gilbert & George fill the galleries, while the V&A opens its archives at the illustrious new East Storehouse
The Guardian - UK · Dec 18, 2024 The best art and architecture of 2024 Our critics’ highlights include magnificently rough portraits by the late Frank Auerbach, Caravaggio’s final painting and a 1930s silo reborn as a museum of modern art
The Guardian - UK · Dec 18, 2024 ‘I am hitting a wall’: heir of Jewish art collector calls for restitution from Germany Great-nephew of Alfred Flechtheim, who was forced to flee the Nazis, is frustrated at slow progress in returning works by Picasso and Klee
Evening Standard · Dec 7, 2024 How to do Rome like Harry Styles: An insider's guide to the Eternal City Long languid dinner, perusing for vintage wares, drinking natural wine on cobbled streets — Juliana Piskorz has the inside track on how to have a Roman holiday the Styles way
The Guardian - UK · Nov 26, 2024 X marks the bitcoin: the treasure hunt book is back – and it’s bigger than ever Hidden in five chests across the US, the bounty includes everything from a Picasso pendant to Jackie O’s sapphires and a spot of crypto currency. We meet Jon Collins-Black, writer of the book behind the hunt – and a searcher himself
The Independent UK · Nov 24, 2024 Kanye West screamed ‘I’m like Picasso’ while strangling model, lawsuit alleges Latest legal complaint against the controversial rapper alleges that he choked a woman on the set of another musician’s video in 2010
TechRadar · Nov 24, 2024 Why you're wrong about AI art, according to the Ai-Da robot that just made a $1 million painting The Ai-Da robot recently made a painting that sold for over $1 million. Is that something to be celebrated or lambasted?
The Guardian - UK · Nov 22, 2024 Surreal landscapes, psychedelic techno visions and pop art fairground rides – the week in art Pre-internet computer creations get rebooted at Tate Modern, Graham MacIndoe documents his drug use, and a Keith Haring carousel is on show in New York
The Independent UK · Nov 22, 2024 Iran's vast collection of Western art, much long hidden, re-emerges despite high tensions with US As Iran faces increasing tensions with the West and turmoil at home, a new exhibition at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art is displaying Western artwork including pieces not seen by the public in at least a decade
The Guardian - UK · Nov 15, 2024 80s a-go-go, hanging with Calder and a Scots stitch-up – the week in art Plus: a magical Picasso print, a farewell to Frank Auerbach and polyamorous bohemian Dora Carrington gets her own show – all in your weekly dispatch
Wallpaper · Nov 14, 2024 The don’t-miss Swiss art museums for your next cultural flit Map these 11 Swiss art museums, worthy pitstops for the culturally curious, from Basel to Zürich and beyond