If you remember from the last time I talked about him, I’m not overly fond of Picasso as a man. I can’t get over his attitude towards women and I think it’s high time to rethink his appropriation of African art. The Picasso Museum itself agrees with me. That being said, this recent exhibition at […]
We’re taking the run-up to prepare for April 15th, when Impressionism will celebrate 150 years from its conventional birth. It was April 15th 1874 in fact, at the studio of photographer Félix Nadar in 35 Boulevard des Capucines, Paris, when the group of rascals later known as the Impressionists held their first structured exhibition. It […]
The Capital City of Warsaw in Polonia sits on the River Vistula, and it’s perhaps unsurprising to see a mermaid on its coat of arms. What catches the attention is that this mermaid is brandishing a blade and carrying a shield, and her story is indeed worth telling. You can read her story, and a […]
I can bear a little Picasso if I could stand Rodin last season, but it might be irksome to some of us, attending an exhibition on Picasso that’s particularly related to his “primitivism” period: the man was an asshole to women, and his fetishized approach to the female body extended to a consistent exploitation of […]
Articolo dal Manifesto del 28 marzo, in cui si parla di una mostra sul sottile filo che ha legato Picasso e il circo. Peccato che ancora non è sicuro se arriverà in Italia oppure no. Fra Arlecchini, cavallerizze e saltimbanchi l’attrazione fatale di Picasso per il circo –Arianna Di Genova Dopo la tappa di Barcellona, […]