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Pablo Picasso and his cat, taken by painter Carlos Nadal at Vallauris 1954. The previously unknown photo was donated by his son Alejandro Nadal to the Museu Picasso Barcelona in 2010. What do Emily Barto, Pablo Picasso, Louis Wain and Andy Warhol all have in common? They all loved their cats. If you love art, artists and cats too, you'll likely enjoy these features about well known artists and their cats. Mary Savig, the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art's curator of manuscripts, recently dug through the institution's collection and published Artful Cats, a collection of artists with their cats. Highlights and endearing examples were featured by Artsy in These Smithsonian Archival Photos Show Famous Artists with Their Cats . I was particularly taken with the photographs of Hedda Sterne (outside and gazing skyward with Poussin), Frank Stella in his studio (reclining with Marisol), Beatrice Wood at her pottery wheel observed by one of her Manx cats (so that ...

Ceci n’est pas une rue. Brussels honours artist René Magritte with a new street name. Brussels has a found a new way to honour Belgian artist, René Magritte...  "If you could name a street in your hometown, what would you choose? Belgian citizens had the opportunity to mull just that question as part of an initiative to name 28 streets, squares, and walkways in the Belgian capital’s Tour & Taxis district*. The city crowdsourced the names as part of an ongoing regeneration project in the Tour & Taxis district—a formerly industrial area now set to become one of the city’s cultural and residential meccas. After receiving nearly 1,400 suggestions from the public, the final list was chosen by a jury of city officials, historians, and the site’s property developer, Extena...""[ read more on Quartz ]. *The district is named after the famous Thurn and Taxis, a German noble family that was a key player in European postal services until the fall of the Holy Roman...

Georgia O'Keeffe: Visions of Hawaii New York Botanical Garden To October 28, 2018 "O’Keeffe was astonished by the beauty of Hawaii." Hawaii in NYC: Georgia O'Keeffe: Visions of Hawai'i at New York Botanical Garden "Finding out Georgia O’Keeffe had a Hawaiian period is kind of like finding out Brian Wilson had a desert period. But here it is: “Georgia O’Keeffe: Visions of Hawaiʻi,” 17 eye-popping paradisal paintings, produced in a nine-week visit in 1939, and now on display at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, through October 28. It is the first time the largely unknown group has been shown together since its original exhibition in 1940 at Alfred Stieglitz’s gallery, An American Place, in New York. In addition, there are two oil sketches never before exhibited. And not a bleached skull in sight..." [ read more in the New York Times ]. "Her advertising work — the original impetus for the trip — is only a minimal part of the ...

Creative Commons images Photogestion on Flickr "Piero Fornasetti was an artist ahead of his time. With an imagination that blurs the lines between illusion and reality, his surrealistic and – dare I say – psychedelic works are always unexpected and catch you by surprise. The exhibition juxtaposes Fornasetti’s surrealist pieces alongside the gallery’s permanent collection of classical sculptures and Renaissance works in an ironic and inventive way. Throughout the frescoed rooms and grand halls, the parallel objects seem to “speak” with each other, creating a dialogue between the works that play with the imagination and invite the viewer to venture into a land without rules or preconceptions..." [ read more ]. To visit Citazioni Pratiche (translation: "Practical Quotes" or “Practical Citations”) Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Altemps, Piazza S. Apollinare 46, Rome Tuesday – Sunday, 9:00am – 7:45pm (last entry at 7pm) Closed Mondays Exhibit tickets C...

Picasso's Kitchen Museu Picasso, Barcelona To September 30, 2018 "An exhibition on the subject of Picasso’s kitchen? Why not? There is nothing at all incongruous in the idea, because cooking is a subtle revelation of Picasso’s art: painting, engraving, sculpture, ceramics, poetry and theatre. What is more, we should not neglect the role of the restaurant as a meeting place for the avant-gardes, from the Quatre Gats tavern in Barcelona to the cabaret Au Lapin Agile on Montmartre, where the bohemians of the time and Picasso’s little entourage would share a table." From the exhibit catalog "The exhibition will include the exceptional collaboration of chef Ferran Adrià who will introduce a dialogue between the artist’s creative process and contemporary culinary art. The Mauri gallery– which is the gallery of the museum devoted to contemporary art- will house an intervention from the internationally acclaimed chef, who will showcase ‘Sapiens”, his methodology fo...

John Mellencamp: Life, Death, Love and Freedom ACA Galleries, New York City To June 2, 2018 John Mellencamp named his current art exhibition after his 2008 album In late April, John Mellencamp, the highly-acclaimed musician, took another step forward in his dual career as an artist, with the opening of his second NYC exhibit in 3 years. With Life, Death, Love and Freedom, Mellencamp has taken a new direction, adding mixed-media to his painting style. "Heavily influenced by the German Expressionists, such as Otto Dix and Max Beckmann, whose anguish over human brutality and corruption speaks to his deep feelings about social justice, Mellencamp’s imagery takes its inspiration from the same sources as his music: the oppressive authority and social struggles of the working man and woman. But though that foundation is German, the evolved result is decidedly American, with the brash and snappy visual rhythms of our streets, lives, politics and passions. This can be seen in.....