Tag: Blogposts
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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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Live it up: the celebrity homes that anyone can rent
Fancy a holiday in Jimi Hendrix’s ‘gingerbread house’ or Kurt Cobain’s graffiti-riddled Los Angeles flat – and willing to pay a premium for the pleasure?
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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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Does wearing red really make you dominant, charismatic and sexy?
A new study claims it does. Stuart Heritage puts the theory to the test in his local town centre
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Splurging £102.6m on Picasso’s Women of Algiers is simply insane
The record-breaking price paid for a late, ungreat work shows the foolishness of collectors infected by a dumb new buzz around the artist
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Ask the real experts about ocean acidification, not climate science deniers
Scientists review column on ocean acidification in The Australian newspaper and find it was ‘misleading’, ‘very wrong’ and ‘ill informed’.