Category: Art
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A Qatari sheikh, Picasso’s censored breasts and the west’s confusion over Islam
The media were horrified that Picasso’s nudes might be locked away by a conservative Middle Eastern collector – but the unfounded story only serves to highlight our hypocrisy
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Was Picasso a misogynist?
The greatest artist of the 20th century has been characterised as a bully, a narcissist and a man who feared as well as desired women. But are the stories really true? Jonathan Jones tackles the six million euro question
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Go East review – Ai Weiwei’s overcoat and other ambiguities of Asian art
Art Gallery of NSW / Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney‘Everything is art,’ says Ai Weiwei, but this peek into one of Australia’s most significant private collections lacks a coherent geography or signposts
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The first BMW Art Journey winner
Art Basel and BMW announced Samson Young as the winner of the first BMW Art Journey, a prize created to recognize and support emerging artists worldwide. BMW and Art Basel will send Hong Kong artist on a journey of creative discovery across five continents. For 2015 BMW Art Journey, Samson Young turns his attention to bells, which…
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Why Peggy Guggenheim’s heirs should keep their hands off her collection
Despite what the great collector’s relatives are saying in a legal proceeding, her intimate museum in Venice is one of the wonders of the modern art world – and has in no way betrayed her joyous vision
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V&A conservators race to preserve art and design classics in plastic
Materials that reshaped design in the 20th century are now showing signs of degradation due to the instability of plastics