Coverage

Science of Seeing Picasso Show / by Elaine Sciolino

".....Listen up. I recommend the audio guide, despite some of its over-the-top narrations. The visual relationships between Picasso and some of his masters seem obscure - or even nonexistent - and the audio guide leads the ordinary visitor by the hand....

.......It is the must-see art event in Paris this season, a blockbuster of an exhibition that is attracting record crowds...who seem to be willing to wait forever to get in...

...Picasso and the Masters at the Grand Palais sets the Spanish masters' paintings alongside those of some of the classical artists who inspired him: Goya and Velázquez, ingres and El Greco, Courbet and Manet, Rembrandt and Renoire, Degas and Delacroix...."

Picasso and the Masters:
Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris
8 October 2008 - 2 February 2009 http://www.bapartners.net/espro/grand_palais/Default.aspx