"There are people who do not like machines," the avant-garde artist Francis Picabia admitted in a 1923 interview. "I propose Spanish women for them." Picabia wasn't kidding. His exhibitions included ...
The more serious you are about modern art, the more likely you are to be stupefied by “Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round so Our Thoughts Can Change Direction,” a retrospective at the Museum of ...
Francis Picabia, “Tableau Rastadada” (Rastadada Painting, 1920), cut‑and‑pasted printed paper on paper with ink, 7 1/2 × 6 3/4″ (19 × 17.1 cm), the Museum of Modern Art, New York, gift of Abby Aldrich ...
Despite his reputation as an artist's artist, demand for works by Francis Picabia trails that of his Surrealist peers. Francis Picavia, Pavonia (1929). Image courtesy of Sotheby's. On the market side, ...
The Museum of Modern Art’s retrospective of the radically unquantifiable, relentlessly original Francis Picabia is a blast of fresh air just when we need it. Picabia is a freedom machine. He tears ...
Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry and Christoph Becker -- Acknowledgments / Anne Umland and Cathérine Hug -- Francis Picabia: an introduction / Anne Umland -- Francis Picabia, once removed / Gordon Hughes -- ...
"Art is the field for those who want to know what’s going on, whether they like it or not." This is going to be a little bit dark and weird, but I can’t help it: it’s 2017. The universe doesn’t care ...
An extravagant new retrospective of the avant-garde French-Cuban artist highlights often troubling yet always distinctive work The president-elect’s favorite term of abuse is “loser” – lobbed more ...
The exhibition “Transparence: Calder/Picabia” at Hauser & Wirth Zürich brings together two modernist titans: kinetic sculptor Alexander Calder and master painter Francis Picabia. The connection ...
THE DAILY PIC (#1731): After three visits to “Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round so Our Thoughts Can Change Direction,” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, I’m still stunned by the brilliance ...
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