For a brief moment, the puzzle of what had happened to Pablo Picasso’s “Still Life With Guitar” infected Deifontes with caper fever.
Tag: Picasso, Pablo
It Turns Out the Picassos Anchoring a Gallery’s Exhibit Were Not by Picasso
The Museum of Old and New Art in Australia claimed to have placed several Picassos inside a women’s restroom to protest a court ruling against the women-only exhibit. The curator now says they were fake.
A Court Ruled an Exhibit Discriminated Against Men. Now It’s in the Women’s Restroom.
The Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania hung several paintings in a women’s restroom after a court ruled that its installation could not be exclusive to women.
What I’m Reading: Wives and Muses Edition
A look at women who inspired great art and literature and what might have been.
What I’m Reading: Wives and Muses Edition
A look at women who inspired great art and literature and what might have been.
Your Friday Briefing: U.S. Admits Flaws in Afghanistan Withdrawal
Plus China and France call for peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, and India scrubs its textbooks.
‘Guernica’ Antiwar Tapestry Is Rehung at U.N.
The canvas replica of Picasso’s painting, symbolizing war’s horrors, had been a photogenic fixture at the United Nations for decades before its owner, the Rockefeller family, removed it last year.
Stolen Picasso and Mondrian Paintings Found Stashed in a Ravine in Greece
Ending a long-running mystery, a construction worker guided the police to the hiding place after admitting he had taken the works in a daring one-man raid on the National Gallery in Athens in 2012.
‘Guernica’ Tapestry Is Taken Back From U.N. by a Rockefeller
The replica of Picasso’s famed painting depicting the horrors of war had hung outside the Security Council chamber since 1985, on loan from the Rockefeller family.
Bored Russians Posted Silly Art Parodies. The World Has Joined In.
Frozen dumplings as skulls and A/C ducts as fashion accessories. A Facebook group for art re-enactors has gained 540,000 followers across the locked-down globe.