Determining the 10 most famous Cubist paintings in an objective and scientific way is impossible, because there is no way of knowing how many people have heard of just one cubist painting, let alone ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cosmetics heir and art collector Leonard A. Lauder said on Tuesday the collection of 81 Cubist masterpieces he has donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art will update the museum ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. Of all the things a painter might depict, a mirror is one of ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The close and competitive working-relationship between Pablo Picasso and ...

Juan Gris, 1913: Pears and Grapes on a Table. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Promised Gift from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection. Source: Photo by the author. Since cubist art reduces ...

The opening of “Decenter” at Abrons Arts Center, with Douglas Melini’s “Favorable Transformations” (2012) in the foreground (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) I first learned about Cubism in ...

IN a warren of studios and flats known as “the wash house,” at No. 13 Rue Ravignan in Paris, Pablo Picasso in 1907 painted a canvas that was to become historic. Space was carved out in simple planes ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Art — “The expression of human creative skill and imagination.” Artists mix up varieties of colors to paint something unique. They sharpen fine lead to sketch the little things that come up in their ...

“When this painting was first shown at the 1911 Salon d’Automne in Paris, the prominent art critic André Salmon dubbed it The Mona Lisa of Cubism.” If you had noticed that we didn’t mention Jean ...