Legend has it that the weapon belonged to the playwright Alfred Jarry – patron saint of the Absurdists and creator of the parody of the science of pataphysics. Picasso I loved Jarry. A 2020 exhibit on Jarry's legacy at the Morgan Museum & Library noted that Guillame Apollinaire and Max Jacob spread rumors about interactions between Picasso and Jarry. Undoubtedly, Picasso drew Jarry many times and claimed that his pet owls were descended from the playwright's birds. Find out more here.
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The Italian Heritage Group claims that a new sculptural exhibition in Venice's public square diverts attention from cultural heritage. Find out more here.
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An exhibition that highlights the relationship of complicity between Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso and the artist couple Sonia and Robert Delaunay is inaugurated today at the Center Pompidou, in Paris, announced the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Find out more here.
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Artist Richard Serra, whose monumental, habitable sculptures distort our sense of space and time, died at his home in Long Island, New York, on Tuesday, March 26. He was 85 years old and the cause was pneumonia, his lawyer John Silberman told the New York Times. Find out more here.
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