Pablo Picasso

Police in Istanbul have recovered a stolen painting by Pablo Picasso in an undercover sting operation, Turkish officials said on Jan. 30.

Hollywood star Antonio Banderas performed the traditional Bulgarian dance horo together with Bulgarian Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova.

This happened in the golden hall of the National Art Gallery in Sofia during the week.

Pablo Picasso’s Guernica showed the suffering of the Spanish civil war in 1937. It was the artist’s response to the bombing of Guernica, a Basque Country village in northern Spain, that was bombarded by German and Italian planes at the request of Spanish Nationalists.

Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev unveiled an exhibition of works of art by Pablo Picasso at the National Art Gallery in Sofia on Thursday.

The exhibition entitled "Picasso: the eternal quest" features more than 70 original works of art, which have been specially selected from the Birthplace Museum of the Spanish painter in Malaga.

Christie's has a lineup of 20th-century masterpieces by Lucian Freud, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso and Roy Lichtenstein that will come to auction this fall Works by some of the most coveted artists of impressionist and modern art are coming to auction this fall, including two major works by Paul Gauguin.

Istanbul offers a wide range of activities to serve Istanbulites with different tastes, from a cooking workshop to one focusing on the problems of single mothers; from a Tarkan concert to a Latin music festival. Here is a calendar for Istanbul?s culture and arts events for September 2015.

Sept. 1

The U.S. government on Aug. 13 formally returned a painting by Pablo Picasso valued at $15 million that had been stolen from a Paris museum more than a decade ago and seized by immigration officials late last year in New Jersey.

The US art auction market grew by 20 percent in the first six months of the year, becoming the world's leader in public art auctions, unseating China Boosted by record-breaking New York sales of a Picasso painting and a Giacometti sculpture, the United States has become the world's leader in public art auctions, unseating China, a report by Artprice has shown.

A work of art by Pablo Picasso worth 25 million euros and considered a cultural treasure by Spanish authorities who had barred its exportation was seized from a boat docked at Corsica, French authorities said Aug. 4.

German media is pointing to a fire-sale of Greek assets so that the country can generate cash to start paying off its enormous and possibly unmanageable debt, instead on relying on the usual modern Greek “formula” of taxing, taxing and then taxing wage-earners and pensioners some more.