After weeks of bombardment that forced its closure and prompted emergency efforts to protect its collection, the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMoCA) has reopened with a weekly, rotating post-ceasefire programme-this week turning to Spain, including three works from Pablo Picasso's Weeping Woman series.
The Basque government has made the transfer of Picasso's painting a matter of regional pride, viewing it as a gesture of historical remembrance and symbolic reparation toward the Basque people.
Naomi Campbell will offer a supermodel's perspective on the intimate relationship between artist and muse in an essay for an upcoming exhibition of Pablo Picasso paintings being staged by Nahmad Contemporary in Switzerland. The New York-headquartered gallery was founded in 2013 by Joseph Nahmad, a scion of the billionaire art-dealing family. Nahmad's father, David Nahmad, is believed to have the largest private collection of works by Picasso.
"Clouzot took as his task not telling the story of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon or Three Musicians but capturing Picasso in the act of creating new works of art."
