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Tag Archives: Pablo Picasso
Dead Blogging ‘Picasso to Warhol’ at Lowell Textile Museum
Well the Missus and I trundled up to Lowell over the weekend to catch Artist Textiles: Picasso to Warhol at the American Textile History Museum and, say, it was swell. From their website: The American Textile History Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts … Continue reading
Correction o’ the Day (Pablo Picasso Edition)
From Tuesday’s New York Times: (Roger Fessaguet obit here.) But what if Picasso had visited the United States? What would have happened to his newspaper collages that featured French dailies Le Figaro and Le Journal? Representative samples: … Continue reading
Why The WSJ Is A Great Newspaper (Picasso Sculpture Edition)
The Weekend Wall Street Journal devotes three full pages to a piece chronicling the quest by one of Pablo Picasso’s granddaughters to catalogue the more than 2000 sculptures created by the 20th Century’s greatest artist. A PICASSO HEIR’S EPIC HUNT … Continue reading
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Dead Blogging ‘Portrait Photographs of Artists’ At WAM
Well the Missus and I trundled out to Worcester to catch Portrait Photographs of Artists at the Worcester Art Museum and say, it’s a corker. From WAM’s website: “Almost 110 years ago, WAM became one of the first institutions to … Continue reading
Arts Seen In The Big Town (Lonely, I’m Not Edition)
So the Missus and I trundled Uptown to do some Met/gallery-hopping, and here’s some of what we saw (sorry, no visuals or links – we’re iPadlicked): THE MET ALMOST ALWAYS MEETS EXPECTATIONS The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian … Continue reading
WSJ Left Hand, Meet WSJ Right Hand
Apparently, Wall Street Journal editors don’t read their own paper. Last week the Journal ran an op-ed piece about ripoff artist Richard Prince getting busted for appropriating other people’s work (specifically “[the] book ‘Yes, Rasta,’ by French photographer Patrick Cariou, … Continue reading