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An infectious culture, whacky festivals and wonderful natural sites – Spain is much more than just a beach holiday destination

The Independent UK

David Ellis On the Sauce at Velvet: Is this London's maddest bar menu?

Electric cars, Picassos, drinks with ketchup in them — Velvet's enchanting eccentricity makes it far from the normal bar, says David Ellis

Evening Standard

Even Picasso had to practice, practice. Artist's sketchbooks show whimsy, humor, determination

He was a giant of 20th-century art, but that doesn’t mean Pablo Picasso needed a big canvas

The Independent UK

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Images of friends, family, colleagues intersect in ‘Picasso: Drawing from Life’

The exhibit at the Art Institute offers a compact yet impressively thorough overview of the main phases of the Spanish artist’s career, one that should appeal to those familiar or unfamiliar with his work.

Chicago Sun-Times

Pornography or art? Outrage master Georg Baselitz’s sex prints are sublimely carnal

These huge upside-down linocuts showing clothed couples having sex, with a white circle at the pivotal point, are ‘like Picasso on schnapps’

The Guardian - UK

Picasso’s portrait of secret lover sells for $139.4 million at auction

Spanish patiner’s ‘Femme à la montre’, which told the world he was having an affair with his ‘golden muse’, is the most valuable piece of art sold this year

The Independent UK

Picasso painting of his ‘golden muse’ sells for $139.4m in New York

Femme à la montre, painted in 1932, becomes artist’s second most expensive work sold at auction

The Guardian - UK

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Pablo Picasso painting sells for more than $139 million in New York

The 1932 painting 'Femme à la montre' becomes most valuable work of art sold globally at an auction this year

Evening Standard

Picasso masterpiece kicks off auction season forecast to sell $2.5bn in art

The 1932 painting of secret ‘golden muse’ heralds first big lot of autumn with Warhol and Rothko works also up for sale

The Guardian - UK

David Hockney gets personal: National Portrait exhibition stars friends, family and Harry Styles

Hockney’s Drawing from Life exhibition puts visitors up close and personal with some of the beloved artist’s most important sitters

The Independent UK

David Hockney review – a dazzling victory parade from a boundless lover of life

Whether channelling Picasso, depicting Celia Birtwell or capturing Harry Styles, the artist communicates profound joy – and his most recent paintings really boom with energy and hope

The Guardian - UK

David Hockney: Drawing from Life at the National Portrait Gallery review: at his best, he can match Rembrandt

Hockney is at his best when in front of his sitter, with the simplest, time-honoured tools, expertly coordinating his hand and his eye

Evening Standard

Klimt & The Kiss review – deep dive into the celebrated erotic masterpiece

There is plenty to discover about the iconic ,poster-friendly image as well as the artist’s influences and obsessions

The Guardian - UK

Creepy AI blooms, Raphael’s crafty treasures and a neglected pop star – the week in art

Plus Picasso’s enduring influence on modernism, brand new work from Derek Boshier and Venus dries her hair

The Guardian - UK

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Picasso in Fontainebleau: what happened in the summer of 1921?

A new exhibition at MoMA in New York offers a strange selection of differently styled masterworks from the artist

The Conversation

This engineering course has students use their brainwaves to create performing art

Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.

Evening Standard

20 years of Frieze art fair: the big tent that put London at the centre of the art world

At the first one, it rained and they thought it wouldn’t make a second year. Two decades later, the dual fair is at the heart of London’s art scene

Chicago Sun-Times

Graffiti artist Zwon says of his high-wire tagging, ‘It makes me feel alive’

This week’s Murals and Mosaics newsletter features work by “adrenaline junky” graffiti artist Zwon, plus how an Avondale artist is moving Picasso forward and more.

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Pablo Picasso painting estimated to fetch $120m goes on display in London

The oil on canvas painting from 1932 forms part of the exhibition, The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined

The Independent UK

Pablo Picasso painting estimated to fetch 120m dollars goes on display in London

The oil on canvas painting from 1932 forms part of the exhibition, The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined.

The Guardian - UK

Picasso portrait of Marie-Thérèse Walter expected to reach $120m at auction

Femme à la Montre, one of artist’s few major works featuring a wristwatch, to be sold by Sotheby’s in New York

Evening Standard

Le Meurice in Paris — the ultimate luxury stay for art lovers

For art lovers pursuing an unforgettable experience, Le Meurice’s trails exploring pieces from three prominent Parisian artists are just the ticket

The Independent UK

Brits admit they’re ‘clueless’ about art including paintings by Pablo Picasso

A poll of 2,000 adults found that 46 per cent know next to nothing about legendary painters or their notable works

The Guardian - UK

Claudette Johnson: Presence review – subtle swipes at the exploitative modern masters

The artist brilliantly questions depictions of non-white figures by such revered painters as Gauguin and Picasso – but there’s a quiet power to her new work that leaves theory behind

The Guardian - UK

The week in TV: Sex Education; Chris Packham: Is It Time to Break the Law?; Picasso: The Beauty and the Beast; Juice – review

The game-changing school drama comes of age in its final season; a despairing Chris Packham considers abandoning peaceful protest. Plus, Picasso in the round and the comedy surrealism of Mawaan Rizwan

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