If your vacations bring you to the Catalan coast over the summer, Barcelona is not only about the Park Güell and la Sagrada Familia. Catalonia, and Barcelona more precisely, is home to many of the most famous Spanish artists of the 20th and 21th century and offers a variety of contemporary art museums and centers worth checking out. Discover Artsper suggestions…

Want to discover paintings by Great Masters that were revisited by contemporary artists? Artsper's put together a list of our 5 favorites!

In May, great collectors flock to New York. A great ball takes place there: evening sales of modern and contemporary art with Christie's and Sotheby's. Artsper and Achetezdel'art.com decrypt the event for you. Untitled (15 one dollar bills), ©Andy Warhol In this new kind of sport, each sale is a well-regulated social ritual seen like a round of boxing between…

The days get longer, nice weather rolls around, weekends seem to stretch on, and even Parisians have a smile on their lips: ah yes, it must be May! The perfect time to leave town, travel, go swimming, get a tan, in short, to forget your worries and take it easy. Artsper recommends you pack your bags and click your way…

 Art History is a tricky subject, Artsper reveals a few interesting facts on major artists. Jackson Pollock worked as a janitor in a primary school with his brother. Pablo Picasso was one of the suspects in the stealing of the Mona Lisa in 1911. He was arrested by the police and interrogated to be finally released. Madrid’s school of art…

Cubism is the fragmentation of the object, the body, the portrait, the still life or the landscape. It is an avant-garde movement, like Fauvism before it. Picasso said in 1935: "When we did cubism, we had no intention of doing cubism, but only of expressing what was in us". Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Pablo Picasso The movement has it’s origins in…

On October 25th, the hotel Salé which houses the national Picasso Museum since 1985, will finally reopen its doors after five years of work led by the architect Jean-François Bodin. Guided visits to a brand new museum.  (c) Succession Picasso, 2014 ”Give me a museum and I will fill it.” The celebrated words of Picasso will take on all their…