A FRENCH historical preservation panel met today to ponder the fate of artist Pablo Picasso’s Paris studio.
A legal group has owned the 17th-century manor containing the studio since before Picasso worked there and now wants to redevelop it — possibly as a luxury hotel.
Picasso worked in the Left Bank studio in the Hotel de Savoie for 19 years, and it is where he painted his famed anti-war opus “Guernica” in 1937.
KATAYOUN SHAHANDEH surveys Iran’s cultural heritage and explains what has been damaged and what could be lost
ANDREW FILMER welcomes the reopening of Glasgow’s landmark theatre after a seven-year transformation
OLIVER SNELLING, a south London stonecarver and yeoman stonemason, relates how he is helping bring about a new festival next month
MIKE QUILLE applauds an excellent example of cultural democracy: making artworks which are a relevant, integral part of working-class lives


