From February 18 to May 15, 2025, the Musée Picasso unveils an exhibition of so-called "degenerate" art, entitled "Degenerate Art: The Trial of Modern Art under Nazism". A fascinating, dark dive into ...

Considered one of the fathers of modern art, he revolutionized the art world of the 20th century. Loved and hated alike, Pablo Picasso and his works leave no one indifferent. L' Atelier des Lumières ...

Two shows at the Hayward are visceral attacks on the male gaze and startling odes to the power of transformation ...

The artist’s museum in Málaga is showing for the first time eight sketchbooks made during his stay in the French seaside town ...

Free First Thursday at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is always a good deal, but this week it's also a great reminder that there's not much more time to catch the fun, family-friendly exhibit ...

On March 16, 1941 – with European cities ablaze and Jews being herded into ghettos – The New York Times Magazine featured an illustrated story on Adolf Hitler’s retreat in the Berchtesgaden Alps.

Instagram is now Pablo Picasso’s Guernica; destruction lingers in every corner, and I mourn, but being able to say I understand or relate is a lie. Why is laying on a bed of nails borderline painless?

An installation view of “Picasso and Paper” at the Cleveland Museum of Art. David A. Brichford, courtesy Cleveland Museum of Art Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer’s roving art critic ...

Reading Guernica as a comic positions the painting not as a lofty work of fine art, but as a public narrative of violence.

Guernica by Pablo Picasso is one of the most famous artworks of the 20th century. The painting is huge and violent, and when it was first displayed in 1937 it was considered absolutely groundbreaking.

But a lot of the most notable history here isn’t immediately obvious – survivors from the German and Italian bombings of Guernica, captured so disturbingly by Picasso in 1937, sought refuge ...