Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

A new exhibit on Mexican artist Diego Rivera looks at his portraits from the several years in Paris when he focused on Cubism. "Diego Rivera: The Cubist Portraits, 1913-1917" opens Sunday at Southern ...

From her photograph, Fernande Olivier hardly appears a likely muse for the 20th century’s most influential artist. In the black-and-white picture, a simple dress hangs loosely over sloping shoulders ...

Just like the incongruous features of his cubist portraits, Pablo Picasso’s disparate artistic styles, mediums and interests create a remarkable whole. Over his long and prolific career, Picasso ...

Between spring and winter 1909, Picasso executed more than sixty portraits of his companion, Fernande Olivier. These works--produced in a variety of formats and mediums--exhibit a range of artistic ...

I was always afraid of Cubism. It wasn’t an I-just-don’t-get-it-and-that-scares-me kind of fear, but an I-just-don’t-get-it-yet-I’m-sure-that-if-I-did-it-would-make-me-afraid kind. I was afraid of its ...

WASHINGTON – When Pablo Picasso was 27 he spent the summer in a village in his native Spain, drawing and painting odd angles and curves that looked only a bit like his beautiful French mistress. They ...

Marie Laurencin, "The Does" (Les biches) (1923), stage curtain design for the ballet Les biches; Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris (artwork © Fondation Foujita ...

From pop culture to street murals, we are surrounded by art. And the art world may seem intimidating, but we bet you know more than you think you know. Even if you can’t name a movement or era, there ...