Hannah Gadsby’s Picasso Show Was Meant to Ignite Debate. And It Did.

 

 "Picasso abused his female muses, using them in his work; two took their own lives. “Every time I change wives I should burn the last one. That way I’d be rid of them,” he once said. “They wouldn’t be around to complicate my existence. Maybe, that would bring back my youth, too. You kill the woman and you wipe out the past she represents.”

On a recent morning at the museum, several visitors said they were moved by the exhibition. “It’s the violence that’s inherent in his work that is getting to me and making me cry,” said Lori Handelman, 64, who lives in New York and is retired. “It’s very pointedly through an angry lens, which I think is appropriate.”

Others wrestled with the show’s negative take on Picasso. “It’s good to make a statement like this," said Garoan Jacobs, an artist from Berlin, “but I still love Picasso.”"

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