Guggenheim

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Throughout his life, especially during his final years, Picasso sustained a dialogue with works by masters of the past that had long haunted him, explored through paint, pencil, and prints. Noted scholar Susan Galassi, Senior Curator, the Frick Collection, examines the particular qualities that Picasso brings to his analyses of masterpieces, including paintings inspired by Diego de Velázquez’s Las Meninas (ca. 1656) and Eugene Delacroix’s Women of Algiers (1834), both on view in the exhibition Picasso Black and White. Within this lecture Galassi will explore his limited black-and-white palatte, and the often abrupt jumps that the artist made between the use of black and white and brilliant color evident in his numerous series. A reception and exhibition viewing immediately follows.

This program has been canceled until further notice. Please visit guggenheim.org/publicprograms for updates.

Do you have a question for Guggenheim curator Carmen Giménez? Submit your questions about Picasso Black and White by Friday, January 11, and enter to win an exhibition catalogue and two tickets to see the exhibition during its final weeks. Then on January 18, join us for a live Twitter Q&A with @artinfodotcom. Questions may be submitted by e-mail, Twitter, or Facebook.

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Building on the same methodological approach as the exhibition Picasso Black and White, this emerging scholars symposium gathers together parallel modernist explorations of a particular formal or thematic element in the work of Picasso’s contemporaries and other artists whose careers have spanned the 20th century.

Richard Shiff, The University of Texas at Austin, presents the keynote lecture, “De Kooning: The Kick, The Twist, The Woman, The Rowboat.”

The symposium concludes with “Picasso: A Conversation” (rescheduled from November 2) in which Carmen Giménez, Stephen and Nan Swid Curator of Twentieth-Century Art, Guggenheim Museum, and curator of Picasso Black and White, engages in conversation about the Spanish master and his lifelong exploration of a black-and-white palette with art historian Diana Widmaier Picasso, co-curator of Picasso and Marie-Thérèse L’Amour fou (Gagosian Gallery, New York, 2011) and granddaughter of the artist, and Gary Tinterow, Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

For a detailed schedule and list of speakers, see the symposium page.

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Tickets on sale Monday, January 7.

Company dancers, plus special ballet guests, will preview excerpts from choreographer Larry Keigwin’s new work Canvas prior to its August premiere at the Vail International Dance Festival (VIDF). The company will also perform Rock Steady (2010) and Contact Sport (2012) in their entirety, and Keigwin will discuss his work with VIDF Artistic Director Damian Woetzel.

Canvas is commissioned by the Vail International Dance Festival with additional support from Works & Process at the Guggenheim.