Miró had a sorcerer’s ability to turn the mundane in our lives into a golden source of magical engagement. Joan Prats, one of Miró’s dearest friends, once said, “When I pick up a stone it’s a stone.

When the great Spanish artist Joan Miró came to England in 1964 the place he most wanted to visit was London Zoo, and author Antony Penrose went along too as a young boy. The trip eventually inspired ...

New York — New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is giving devotees of Spanish painter Joan Miro (1893-1983) an opportunity to immerse themselves in dozens of artifacts from the period when he ...