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2023/2024 Lectures:
Joyce Tenneson | December 14-15, 2023
Eric Fischl I January 25-26, 2024
Bob Colacello I March 14-15, 2024
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ArtSpeaks / Picasso's War: How Modern Art Came to America by Hugh Eakin
Thursday, March 2 / 1PM
“Fascinating, eloquent, wonderfully lucid, Picasso’s War will change whatever we thought we knew about modern art and its complicated reception on this side of the Atlantic.”—Francine Prose, author of The Vixen
Picasso’s War is the story about how a single exhibition, a decade in the making, irrevocably changed American taste, and in doing so saved dozens of the twentieth century’s most enduring artworks from the Nazis. Through a deft combination of new scholarship and vivid storytelling, Hugh Eakin shows how two men and their obsession with Picasso changed the art world forever. Hugh Eakin is a senior editor at Foreign Affairs. He has written for The New York Review of Books, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and The New York Times.