Expectations have run high - yet not nearly high enough, as it turns out - since the de Young Museum first announced "Picasso: Masterpieces From the Musée National Picasso, Paris," which opens today.

[caption id="" align="alignleft” width="272" caption="Picasso’s “Ma Jolie.” (Click to get to image’s host site, MoMA.)”] [/caption] A couple of weeks ago ...

THE DAILY PIC (#1402, Picasso Edition): Our week’s penultimate Picasso Pic is all about his unlikely ambitions in realism. But none of that is what makes this piece worthy of being Pic’d.

A London coffee house, c. 1700 - CPA Media Pte Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo A man once came up to Pablo Picasso in a railway compartment. Why, he asked, did the Spaniard not paint people as they really are ...

The guitar is incidental, said Holland Cotter in The New York Times. Disguised as a thematic romp, MoMA’s “subtly buzzing manifesto of an exhibition” in fact proposes that some of “the most ...

To have your portrait painted is to become immortalized. Think of the farm couple in The American Gothic, or Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. It’s a symbolic practice that has spanned centuries, yet its purpose ...