Archives: February2010

• Picasso in Context

  February 24, 2010 – April 25, 2010: This exhibition, held in conjunction with Picasso and the Avant Garde in Paris, explores American Modernism through artists such as Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, and Georgia O’Keeffe. A selection of American photographer Paul Strand’s portraits of Picasso and Georges Braque are also on view.

• Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris

  February 24, 2010 – May 2, 2010: 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. Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris surveys his work during these crucial decades, when he transformed the history of art through his innate virtuosity and protean creativity.

• Deadly Tsunami Swarm Hit Haiti After Quake, Experts Say

  Unusual ten-foot waves hammered the Hispaniola coast shortly after the January 12 Haiti earthquake, killing three and destroying several homes, scientists have announced.