Farah Atassi is not entirely comfortable with you feeling comfortable about her artwork. But when walking into the first room of her current exhibition at the Musée Picasso, the urge to take a deep, ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Most importantly, the Musée Picasso’s collection, the world’s largest assembly of works by the artist, was ...

When Sophie Calle was 6 years old, her father framed a drawing she made. Her grandmother responded enthusiastically, declaring that there appeared to be “a Picasso in the family.” Sophie Calle covers ...

Françoise Gilot at the Trophée des Arts Gala in New York City in 2012 (photo by Fernando Leon/Getty Images) The late French artist Françoise Gilot, widely recognized for her painting practice and for ...

Pablo Picasso, “Arlequin assis” (1901), oil on canvas, 83.2 x 61.3 cm , New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, inv. 60.87 (© The Metropolitan Museum of Art ...

This museum, which hangs nearly 250 of Picasso's works, is actually a former castle, the Château Grimaldi. The artist ventured upon it in 1946 and started using it as his studio – but he also employed ...

It is not an exaggeration to say that the Musée National Picasso in Paris changed my life. I first visited on a school trip when I was 17 and Modernism-curious. Until that day, I hadn’t “got” Picasso.

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