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 ...

“I am an established painter but a young sculptor.” So said Joan Miró, at 88, to fellow sculptor Alexander Calder in 1981. He wasn’t just being coy. Miró (1893-1983), best known for his surrealist ...

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.

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 ...

LAST WEEK I had the strangest dream. In it, two of Joan Miro's best-known works in the city -- the surreal yet austere "Gothic Personage, Bird-Flash," on view in the National Gallery of Art Sculpture ...

Back in the 1980s, killing time between trains in Zurich, I came upon a remarkable sculpture in an art gallery window. Brightly painted in Crayola red, yellow, green, blue and shiny black enamel, it ...

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.