Nudes, maids and the Eiffel Tower: classic French photography – in pictures
The French humanist movement of the 1930s changed photography for good. A new exhibition at Paris Photo showcases the greats, including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Willy Ronis, and Martine Franck
January 2018
The Guardian view on contemporary art in schools: a joyful idea reborn
Editorial: In the 1940s, School Prints were a visionary notion to bring affordable, adventurous artworks into classrooms. Reinvented for the 21st century, they still are today
April 2015
Graphic novel of the month
Pablo review – an intimate portrait of Picasso
This graphic biography beautifully recreates the painter’s early years in Montmartre with his lover, Fernande Olivier
August 2014
In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and Modernism in Paris 1900-1910 – review
Opium, wooden clothes, the origins of cubism … Sue Roe paints a rich portrait of the modernists in their early years. By Mary Ann Caws
April 2014
Top 10s in art
The top 10 artworks of the 20th century
Jonathan Jones: From Picasso's formidable whores and Magritte's provocative pipe to Pollock painting like an angel, the best 20th-century art reflects a world of flux, abstraction and imagination
March 2014
Did artists foresee the first world war?
In the years before the Great War, artists from Stravinsky to Picasso started rebelling against the old order. Perhaps they already sensed that a catastrophic change was on its way, writes Margaret MacMillan
April 2013
Cubist art donated to the New York Met - in pictures
The cosmetics tycoon Leonard A Lauder has donated 78 Cubist works by the likes of Bracque and Picasso to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Here are some highlights from the collection
March 2013
Pictures from the past
Van Gogh self-portrait - picture of the day
A photographic highlight selected by the picture desk. Vincent Van Gogh was born on this day in 1853. Here Georges Braque, who developed Cubism with Pablo Picasso, looks at a Van Gogh self-portrait in 1948
April 2012
John Golding obituary
Artist, teacher and historian of modern art, he wrote a seminal work on cubism
March 2012
Jonathan Jones on art
Juan Gris: why the unsung cubist deserves his Google doodle
Jonathan Jones: Google pays homage to the least famous, but most entertaining, of the three great masters of cubism, 125 years after Gris's birth
Paris art thief appears more no-frills than thrillseeker
Paris art museum theft the work of lone robber
Jonathan Jones on art
The Paris art theft has robbed us of some truly great paintings
Art theft in Paris
June 2005
Mr Cubism in the round
Alex Danchev's frisky biography of Georges Braque puts the fun back into Cubism, says Peter Conrad.
May 2005
'After him, who?'
He was the first cubist and Picasso courted him like a lover. It's time Georges Braque was recognised in his own right, says Alex Danchev.
December 2003
Tate pockets billiard table masterpiece
In an announcement headed Tate Pots Braque, the National Art Collections Fund disclosed yesterday that an important canvas by the cubist painter Georges Braque has been bought for Britain for a public outlay of only £100,000.
March 1999
Paris museum accused of buying looted masterpiece
In the first case of its kind in France, the National Museum of Modern Art is being investigated for buying a Cubist masterpiece by Georges Braque that was stolen from a wealthy Jewish art collector during the second world war.
