News / Pablo Picasso

Closing this Week

Capturing the Moment

Through April 28, 2024
Tate Modern, London
www.tate.org.uk

Capturing the Moment explores the relationship between photography and painting through iconic artworks from the modern era. The exhibition examines how the two distinct mediums have shaped each other and how artists have blurred the boundaries to capture moments in time. Work by Francis Bacon, Georg Baselitz, John Currin, Andreas Gursky, Pablo Picasso, Jeff Wall, and Andy Warhol is included.

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Affinità elettive
Picasso, Matisse, Klee e Giacometti

Through June 23, 2024
Gallerie dell’Accademia and Casa dei Tre Oci, Venice
www.gallerieaccademia.it

Affinità elettive, whose title translates to Elective Affinities, is held across two locations in Venice: Gallerie dell’Accademia and Casa dei Tre Oci, the European headquarters of the Berggruen Institute. More than forty works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee, Alberto Giacometti, and Paul Cezanne, all from the collection of the Museum Berggruen in Berlin, are presented alongside Venetian paintings from the Gallerie dell’Accademia. The exhibition aims to explore the dialogue between these two different collections and the similarities in iconography and subject matter that arise. 

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Revolutions
Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960

Through April 20, 2025
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
hirshhorn.si.edu

Revolutions is a major survey of 270 artworks by 126 artists from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden’s permanent collection. Celebrating the museum’s fiftieth anniversary, the exhibition aims to capture the shifting cultural landscapes of a century defined by new currents in science and philosophy and ever-increasing mechanization. Shown alongside these historic works are contributions from nineteen contemporary artists whose practices demonstrate how many revolutionary ideas from a hundred years ago remain critical today. Work by Francis Bacon, Amoako Boafo, Alexander Calder, Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Rick Lowe, Sally Mann, Man Ray, Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, and Cy Twombly is included.

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Pablo Picasso in
Le Paris de la modernité (1905–1925)

November 14, 2023–April 14, 2024
Petit Palais, Paris
www.petitpalais.paris.fr

Through fashion, cinema, photography, painting, sculpture, and drawing, as well as dance, design, architecture, and industry, this exhibition, whose title translates to Modern Paris, showcases the rich creativity of the two decades between 1905 and 1925. Work by Pablo Picasso is included.

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El eco de Picasso

October 2, 2023–March 30, 2024
Museo Picasso Málaga, Spain
museopicassomalaga.org

Organized as part of Picasso Celebration 1973–2023, a series of international exhibitions and events commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s death, The Echo of Picasso focuses on his influence on twentieth-century art. The exhibition places Picasso’s practice in dialogue with work by more than fifty artists, including Francis Bacon, Georg Baselitz, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Willem de Kooning, Thomas Houseago, Ewa Juszkiewicz, Richard Prince, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Cy Twombly, Tom Wesselmann, and Franz West.

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Paraventi
Folding Screens from the 17th to 21st Centuries

October 26, 2023–February 22, 2024
Fondazione Prada, Milan
www.fondazioneprada.org

This exhibition investigates the histories and semantics of folding screens by tracing trajectories of cross-pollination between the East and the West, processes of hybridization between different art forms and functions, collaborations between designers and artists, and the emergence of new works. Paraventi presents more than seventy folding screens as well as a selection of contemporary projects, commissioned specifically for this show, by more than fifteen international artists. Work by Francis Bacon, Man Ray, Pablo Picasso, Jean Prouvé, Ed Ruscha, Cy Twombly, and Franz West is included.

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Picasso in Fontainebleau

October 8, 2023–February 17, 2024
Museum of Modern Art, New York
www.moma.org

Pablo Picasso spent much of the summer of 1921 in the garage of a rented villa in Fontainebleau, France, prolifically creating a startling body of work. Among these creations were two radically different six-foot-high canvases that he painted side by side within weeks of each other: Three Women at the Spring and Three Musicians. This exhibition reunites these two monumental paintings, along with other works from the artist’s pivotal three-month stint in the improvised studio, complemented by photographs and archival documents.

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Gertrude Stein et Pablo Picasso

September 13, 2023–January 28, 2024
Musée du Luxembourg, Paris
museeduluxembourg.fr

This exhibition explores the friendship between Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein, two icons of the twentieth century. Both moved to Paris in the early 1900s, and their status as foreigners affected their roles in the city’s bohemian community as well as their artistic freedom. Examining their closeness and inventiveness, the exhibition considers a century of art, poetry, music, and theater through key figures such as Marcel Duchamp, Jasper Johns, Henri Matisse, Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol, and others.

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Picasso
Dessiner à l’infini

October 18, 2023–January 15, 2024
Centre Pompidou, Paris
www.centrepompidou.fr

This exhibition, whose title translates to Picasso: Drawing to Infinity, commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s death. Organized by the Centre Pompidou in collaboration with the Musée national Picasso–Paris, it explores the artist’s drawing practice through nearly one thousand works, including drawings, engravings, and notebooks.

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Storie di pietra

October 13, 2023–January 14, 2024
Villa Medici–Académie de France à Rome
www.villamedici.it

This exhibition, whose title translates to Stories of Stones, brings together nearly two hundred works, from the oldest terrestrial mineral dating back 4.4 billion years to the latest mineral, Sentimentite, created by contemporary artist Agnieszka Kurant. The exhibition explores the idea that stones have inspired artists from all eras. Work by Damien Hirst, Henry Moore, Giuseppe Penone, Pablo Picasso, and Tatiana Trouvé is included.

June 2–September 24, 2023
Brooklyn Museum, New York
www.brooklynmuseum.org

Fifty years after his death, Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) remains an artistic and cultural icon. It’s Pablo-matic: Picasso According to Hannah Gadsby examines the artist’s complicated legacy through a critical, contemporary, and feminist lens, while at the same time acknowledging his work’s transformative power and lasting influence. The exhibition is organized with the Australian comedian Gadsby, who has called out the inexcusable behavior of some of art history’s towering figures, including Picasso. With works by Picasso and various women artists, accompanied by a witty and incisive audio tour by the comedian, the show reckons with complex questions around misogyny, creativity, the art historical canon, and “genius.”

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Young Picasso in Paris

May 12–August 6, 2023
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
www.guggenheim.org

Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s death, the exhibition Young Picasso in Paris explores a critical juncture in his artistic development and highlights a defining work, Le Moulin de la Galette (c. November 1900). This painting and others demonstrate the young artist’s fascination with the unconventional aspects of modern life. Picasso’s early work presages the social disenfranchisement that he brought into sharper relief with his subsequent Blue Period (1901–04) through depictions of the exploited and vulnerable. Also included is a small group of paintings and drawings that show Picasso’s exercises in character study and demonstrate his evolution during this formative period of his life.