“I am an established painter but a young sculptor.” So said Joan Miró, at 88, to fellow sculptor Alexander Calder in 1981. He wasn’t just being coy. Miró (1893-1983), best known for his surrealist ...

Next up in the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s (SBMA) Art Matters Lecture Series is Joan Miró in Time and Space, 5:30 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 4 in the museum’s Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State St. The ...

On April 20, 1981 — 44 years ago Sunday — a long-awaited piece of public sculpture was unveiled to a crowd on a chilly day in downtown Chicago. Going back to the 1960s, a sculpture by Spanish Catalan ...

Interior view of the Taller Sert (All photos by the author, courtesy of Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca) MALLORCA, Spain — Two years before his death, Joan Miró gifted his studio to the city of ...

Joan Miró in front of his painting, “Le Vol d’Oiseau par le Claire de Lune” (painted 1967) (photo c. 1970s. © Artists Rights Society, NY) How did postwar New ...

The artistic experiments of the Catalan painter, showcased in the exhibition Joan Miró: to then reach the soul at the ...

With his seemingly naïve, symbolic paintings, Joan Miró formed a new artistic language in the 20th century. Brought up in Barcelona, the painter, graphic artist and sculptor was drawn to Paris and, ...

Researchers discovered that a particular brand of paint favored by the Spanish artist had an atomic structure that predisposed it to degradation. By Katherine Kornei From Van Gogh’s sunflowers to ...

Before there were Colorforms, there was Joan Miró. Few artists before, during or after left such a colorful legacy, let alone a work built around a stuffed parrot. That last, a taxidermied bird the ...

Christie's announced The Collection of Robert F. and Patricia G. Ross Weis, a survey of the world's most iconic artists—including Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso.