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Pablo Picasso’s Buste Modern Style.

When art returns, who does it belong to?

As masterpieces by William Kentridge and Pablo Picasso return to Johannesburg, Homecoming becomes less about art on walls and more about who gets to claim it

Samuel Fosso. ‘Untitled’ (Kwame Nkrumah) from the series ‘African Spirits’, 2008. Photo. rue du Port (tunnel). Fosso’s participation in neuf-3 was made possible in partnership with the musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac. (Photo: Gustavo Gelmini, © Riason Naidoo.)

The Portfolio: ‘neuf-3’ — a public art project in Saint-Denis, Paris

The ‘neuf-3’ art project, curated by Riason Naidoo, aims to pay tribute to the African communities of Saint-Denis — and of Paris

‘As a growing global movement serves notice on the ubiquity of predatory forms of sexuality we must take full measure of the weight of the fact

‘She was right to regard me with contempt’

Rape culture can lodge even within a progressive project, as the example of Pablo Neruda shows

Ida Skivenes puts Picasso on a plate.

West goes East and boobs

A false rumour about the new owner of a Picasso painting leads Christianity to go haywire.

Picasso Zurich exhibition recreates art landmark

In September 1932, already a world-famous artist, Pablo Picasso drove from Paris to Zurich for the opening of a mega-exhibition.

Hundreds of Picasso works discovered in Paris

Elderly man claims extraordinary collection of paintings, drawings, sketches and lithographs were gifts from artist.

Picasso sketchbook stolen from Paris museum

A sketchbook that belonged to Pablo Picasso and is worth several million euros has been stolen from a Paris museum.

Art down but not out at Art Basel Miami Beach

Even Picassos seem to be less than recession-proof these days as the art world succumbs to the global economic downturn.

Priceless artwork stolen in Nice

Armed robbers have stolen four priceless works of art in a brazen daylight raid on a French museum, writes Kim Willsher.