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Working on a Novel About an Artist? Write Like a Painter

Working on a Novel About an Artist? Write Like a Painter

Kummer on Picasso, van Gogh, Hopper, and the
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By Luke Jerod Kummer | July 1, 2019

In Pablo Picasso's Studio During the Nazi Occupation of Paris

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Françoise Gilot Recalls Her Life with the Artist

By Françoise Gilot and Carlton Lake | June 13, 2019

Why France Bizot Uses Books as the Canvas for Her Art

Why France Bizot Uses Books as the Canvas for Her Art

On Defamiliarizing What We Think of as Art Materials

By Sarah Moroz | June 13, 2019

Inside the Great Bookstores of Paris

Inside the Great Bookstores of Paris

From a Canadian-Owned Labyrinth to an All-Jules Verne Store

By Nichole Robertson | June 12, 2019

A Very Honest Account of Life with Pablo Picasso

A Very Honest Account of Life with Pablo Picasso

On Françoise Gilot's Classic Memoir of Time with a "Great Man"

By Jaime Fuller | June 11, 2019

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