Next up in the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s (SBMA) Art Matters Lecture Series is Joan Miró in Time and Space, 5:30 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 4 in the museum’s Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State St. The ...

On April 20, 1981 — 44 years ago Sunday — a long-awaited piece of public sculpture was unveiled to a crowd on a chilly day in downtown Chicago. Going back to the 1960s, a sculpture by Spanish Catalan ...

Joan Miró in front of his painting, “Le Vol d’Oiseau par le Claire de Lune” (painted 1967) (photo c. 1970s. © Artists Rights Society, NY) How did postwar New ...

Preparatory object for the sculpture Joan Miró's "Personnage" (c.1970) (image courtesy Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca Photographic Archive) Miró was born in 1893 to a family of craftspeople.

When you walk through the galleries of an art museum, it’s evident that the people responsible for all this — the artists, framers, conservators, curators, administrators and architects — had designs ...

Enrolled at the School of Commerce and also attended classes at the School of Industrial and Fine Arts, Barcelona, Spain Diaghilev commissioned Miró and Ernst to design the sets and costumes for the ...

57.8 x 46.4 cm. (22.8 x 18.3 in.) • J. Dupin and A. Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Miró, Catalogue Raisonné Paintings III, 1942–1955, vol. III, Paris, Successió Miró ...

Researchers discovered that a particular brand of paint favored by the Spanish artist had an atomic structure that predisposed it to degradation. By Katherine Kornei From Van Gogh’s sunflowers to ...

One of 11 lithographs published in Joan Miró Lithographe I, the first volume of the catalogue raisonné of the artist’s work in the medium of lithography. Published by A.C. Mazo & Co., Paris: printed ...

Christie's announced The Collection of Robert F. and Patricia G. Ross Weis, a survey of the world's most iconic artists—including Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso.

The Spaniard applied free association to the canvas with radical results. When you walk through the galleries of an art museum, it’s evident that the people responsible for all this — the artists, ...

How a movement went from dreamworld to vanguard to establishment of its own. By Arthur Lubow Swim in azure waters, visit an 18th-century glassblowing factory and explore the picturesque towns of this ...