Around the World…
Here’s just a sampling of some noteworthy – and sometimes offbeat – happenings across the globe over the next couple of months.
NORTH AMERICA February 24 through April 25, the Philadelphia Museum of Art continues its tradition of hosting major traveling exhibitions that lure art lovers from around the country with the blockbuster exhibition Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris. The works therein, pulled from the museum’s own collection and from loans by individuals, explore the decades between 1905 and 1945 – the period some consider to be the artist’s most productive and influential. Internationally recognized as one of the most innovative and influential artists of the twentieth century, Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973) was at his most ferociously inventive between 1905 and 1945. The exhibition follows the trajectory of Picasso’s career from his early experiments with abstraction to his pioneering role in the development of Cubism, as well as his dialogue with Surrealism and other important art movements in the ensuing decades. The exhibition will also explore the important role that the city of Paris played in the history of modern art during the first half of the twentieth century, when artists from around the world followed Picasso’s example and moved to the French capital. More than one hundred paintings, sculptures, and works on paper will be on view, including Picasso’s Three Musicians (1921), a grand summation of the artist’s decade-long exploration of Synthetic Cubism in which the artist seems to cast himself and his poet friends Guillaume Apollinaire and Max Jacob as players in a radical form of Cubist concert.
www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/354.html
LATIN AMERICA The azure waters of the Sea of Cortes will be alive with excitement and activity this winter as Los Cabos welcomes the Desafio 2012, which takes place on February 27. This very special event is part of the “Bicentennial Edition” of the Mexico Cup Regatta and the nationwide celebration in honor of Mexico’s Bicentennial anniversary. Desafio 2012, a sailing challenge set to depart from the southern-most tip of the Baja Peninsula, is one of two challenges taking place away from the main events in Riviera Nayarit.
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