I’ve heard the words, “but a child can do it,” uttered many times in museums. It’s the immediate response for many people when they view a work of abstract art, particularly work by Picasso. In fact, ...

The littlest art critics -- a bunch of 9-month-olds in Switzerland -- preferred the works of Picasso over Monet in a recent study. Paintings by the Spanish artist appealed more to the diaper-clad set ...

'The images could be much older': Analysis of rocks shows Neanderthals made art at least 64,000 years ago Ancient rock art along US-Mexico border persisted for more than 4,000 years — and it depicts ...

Two distinct Pablo Picasso paintings, one from his Rose Period and the other a Cubism work, threw the intrigue of stolen art and of antiquities with disputed ownership into the spotlight this week.

The Harvard Art Museums’ “Picasso: War, Combat, and Revolution,” which debuted on Jan. 20 centers around the themes and concepts highlighted in one of the Spanish painter’s most famous works: ...

In the early 20th century, as avant-garde painters broke with tradition by making their pictures abstract, Alvin Langdon Coburn set his sights on creating abstract photographs. At first he approached ...

Pablo Picasso rampaged like a minotaur through modern art’s china shop. He almost single-handedly invented Cubism, and he imposed his protean creativity on painting, drawing, sculpture, collage, ...