Exasperated young artists yearning to hit back at their ignorant parents could learn a trick from Joan Miró. Between 1925 and 1927, the Catalan native took a portrait of his mother, Dolors Ferrà i ...

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 ...

A portrait of Joan Miro's mother has hidden under "Painting" (1925–1927) for a century. (all images courtesy Fundació Joan Miró) In a Freudian posthumous twist, researchers discovered a portrait of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Five multi-colored faintly dotted spirals peek through the upper right corner of the richly-textured umber-colored background, drawing our gaze away from the red orb that dominates the lower left of ...

It’s easy to reduce someone to a legacy from the outside looking in. But destiny alone can’t make you the person you choose ...

For the first time in history, the Fundació Joan Miró is bringing the artist’s works into an Antoni Gaudí landmark alongside ...

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.

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 ...