The last line in the New York Times profile of one of Picasso's heirs, the artist's granddaughter Marina Picasso, is a quote from her: "I respect my grandfather and his stature as an artist. I was his grandchild and his heir, but never the grandchild of his heart." It is the perfect ending to a story filled with…

Curators have been studying Picasso's "The Blue Room"—one of the highlights of the artist's early 20th-century "blue period" —since 2008, and they've discovered it was painted over another work: a portrait of an unidentified man.

Good news if you hate art: there is none anymore. It has all been stolen.

A man identifying himself as "an up-and-coming Mexican-American artist" has taken credit for a daylight defacing of Pablo Picasso's "Woman in a Red Armchair."

Police have arrested the Picasso Doodle Bandit — who walked into a San Francisco gallery over the July 4th weekend, and walked out with a $200,000 work of art — and surprise! He's from New York. The work has been returned to its rightful owner, and has been unharmed.

A well-dressed man walked into a San Francisco art gallery, took a $200,000 Picasso drawing off the wall, and walked out of the gallery and escaped in a waiting cab. Was that part of the plan or did we just find the least lucky cab driver/accessory to theft ever?

A new science study has proven that babies, like teenage girls who just got back from visiting their cousins in Europe, really love Picasso.

Pop music thingamajig Lady Gaga published her first V magazine column and boy is she trying to school readers. Not only do they get a lesson on how she came up with her "Born This Way" video, but also a lecture on art, fashion, and literature.

[A Bonhams auction house worker hangs a Picasso next to a Chagall. The portrait, of Picasso's friend Mr. Minguell, was completed when the artist was 20 and is better than anything you will do in your lifetime. Pic via Getty]

An intrepid masked thief, or thieves, broke into Paris' Museum of Modern Art yesterday and took five paintings by Picasso, Matisse, Braque, Modigliani and Leger, worth $123m. Officials admit, according to the BBC, that the alarm system was not working.

A single slick art thief whose life is totally like a movie stole more than $600 million worth of paintings from the Paris Museum of Modern Art last night. Picasso! Matisse! Etc.! Click through for pictures of his superfamous haul.

Today at Gawker.TV, Lost begins a killing spree of it's major characters, Spencer Pratt's magic crystals, Stephen Colbert reveals his hatred of Stephen Hawking, and The View gals throw a fit on-air about their own censoring of a Picasso painting.

"The Actor," the Picasso painting that a woman fell into back in January, resulting in a six-inch gash, is back on display at the Metropolitan Museum and behind a new plexiglass barrier. Officials at the museum feared copycat fallers. [NYT]

[An appropriately abstract reflection of a man photographing the upcoming "Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art" exhibit at a preview today. Image via Getty]

The woman who tripped and hit a $130M Picasso painting apparently reduced its value by half. That's $25M more expensive than the time Steve Wynn put an elbow through his Picasso. Obviously, this is Picasso's fault for messing with perspective.

"On Friday afternoon a woman taking an adult education class at the Metropolitan Museum of Art accidentally lost her balance and fell into 'The Actor,' a rare Rose Period Picasso, tearing the canvas about six inches along its lower right-hand corner." [NYT]

Since Gawker now covers art: A woman at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Friday got way too excited about Picasso's "The Actor". She fell into it, ripping a six-inch hole in the rare Rose Period painting. Update:

You know how they always say people in New York get things for cheap if they have the right name? The NYT Real Estate section proudly boasts of a long-in-the-making bohemian transaction at 33 W. 67th street—Claude Ruiz-Picasso, son of guess-who, shelled out 3.25 million for a 4BR, 1.5 bath co-op in a Lincoln Square…