By Farah Nayeri Pablo Picasso stands, cigarette in hand, gazing intently at the viewer. A white pocket square pokes out of his suit jacket; strands of hair reach up to the top of the canvas.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. At Sotheby’s modern and contemporary evening auction in London earlier this month, a Picasso painting ...

Pablo Picasso is one of the subjects of bestselling author Claire Dederer’s 2023 book Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma. She asks a question many people have struggled with: should we allow ourselves ...

A record-breaking Stradivarius has sold for $23 million (£17.8 million), the highest sum ever paid for a violin. The 1715 ‘Baron Knoop’, hailed for its quality, volume and articulation, was crafted ...

Not quite as audacious as Jonathan Richman’s similar rhyme on Pablo Picasso but certainly infused ... startlingly in unison with Bansal’s violin, while I Te Vurria Vasà – “I Long to ...

Authorities confiscated more than 70 fraudulent artworks falsely attributed to notable artists from Pissarro to Picasso, Rembrandt to Dora Maar, along with materials used to mimic vintage canvases ...