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Picasso Ceramics

February 1–May 27, 2018
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
en.louisiana.dk

A presentation of Picasso’s original ceramics marks the beginning of Louisiana’s sixtieth anniversary year. With more than 150 pieces, it is the first major exhibition in Scandinavia focusing on this late, highly imaginative part of Picasso’s work.

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The Classical Now

March 2–April 28, 2018
King’s College, London
www.kcl.ac.uk

The Classical Now pairs the work of modern and contemporary artists with classical Greek and Roman antiquities. The exhibition traces the ways in which Greco-Roman art has captured and permeated modern imagination, while exploring the myriad continuities and contrasts between the ancient, modern, and contemporary, revealing the “classical” as a living and fluid tradition. Work by Michael Craig-Martin, Damien Hirst, Alex Israel, Yves Klein, Roy Lichtenstein, Henry Moore, Bruce Nauman, Pablo Picasso, and Rachel Whiteread is included.

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Tra Cubismo e Classicismo, 1915–1925

September 22, 2017–January 21, 2018
Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome
www.scuderiequirinale.it

This exhibition, curated by Olivier Berggruen, will mark one hundred years since Picasso’s first visit to Italy by bringing together one hundred works by the acclaimed master. The show will illustrate Picasso’s experiments with various styles and genres, with particular attention given to his use of pastiche.

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NUDE
Masterpieces from the Tate

August 11–December 25, 2017
Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, South Korea
www.britishcouncil.kr

This traveling exhibition brings together masterpieces by renowned artists including Francis Bacon, John Currin, Alberto Giacometti, Man Ray, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Cindy Sherman. Beautiful, sensual, and at times provocative, more than one hundred artworks tell the story of the nude and trace artists’ captivation with the human form over the past two centuries.

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Becoming Henry Moore

April 14–October 22, 2017
Henry Moore Studios & Gardens, Perry Green, UK
www.henry-moore.org

Discover how Henry Moore developed from a promising schoolboy into Britain’s foremost modern sculptor. Featuring works by Picasso, Rembrandt, Michelangelo, and Modigliani, Becoming Henry Moore is a rare opportunity to see Henry Moore’s early works alongside that of the artists who inspired him.

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Pity and Terror in Picasso
The Path to Guernica

April 5–September 4, 2017
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
www.museoreinasofia.es

Opening eighty years after Guernica’s first showing, this exhibition has the great mural at its heart. It looks at Picasso’s depiction of modern warfare and the special kinds of agony, bewilderment, and terror such warfare brings with it. In particular, the show focuses on the roots of Guernica’s imagery in Picasso’s previous turn, during the years following 1925, toward scenes of frenzied or ecstatic human action, often tinged with danger and sometimes tipping over into outright violence.

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Olga Picasso

March 21–September 3, 2017
Musée national Picasso–Paris
www.museepicassoparis.fr

Curated by Emilia Philippot, Joachim Pissarro, and Bernard Ruiz-Picasso, this rich selection of paintings, drawings, and photographic archives documents the relationship between Pablo Picasso and his first wife, Olga Khokhlova.

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Rodin
L’exposition du centenaire

March 22–July 31, 2017
Grand Palais, Paris
www.grandpalais.fr

This exhibition reveals Rodin’s creative universe, his relationship with his audience, and the way in which sculptors have appropriated his style. With over two hundred of Rodin’s works, this show also includes work by Georg Baselitz, Alberto Giacometti, Thomas Houseago, Pablo Picasso, and more.

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The Body Laid Bare
Masterpieces from the Tate

March 18–July 16, 2017
Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand
www.aucklandartgallery.com

Journeying through time, from the classical, biblical, and literary subjects of the nineteenth century to the body politics of contemporary art, this exhibition brings together masterpieces by renowned artists including Francis Bacon, John Currin, Alberto Giacometti, Man Ray, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Cindy Sherman. Beautiful, sensual, and at times provocative, more than one hundred artworks tell the story of the nude and trace artists’ captivation with the human form over the past two centuries. The exhibition travels to the Seoul Olympic Museum of Art in South Korea, opening August 11, 2017.

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Picasso Portraits

March 17–June 25, 2017
Museu Picasso, Barcelona
www.bcn.cat

This survey of Picasso’s portraiture includes more than eighty depictions of the artist’s family, friends, and lovers. Elizabeth Cowling has selected works from all periods of the artist’s career.

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The Beguiling Siren Is Thy Crest

March 25–June 18, 2017
Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
artmuseum.pl

The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw opens its new location with an exhibition delving into the mythological siren and its importance in relation to Warsaw’s identity. The exhibition consists of nearly one hundred artworks, historic objects, documents, and manuscripts concerning the siren on Warsaw’s coat of arms and delves into the symbol’s rich history, from antiquity to modern times. Through artworks ranging from sketches by Pablo Picasso to works by Ellen Gallagher, the exhibition reveals different takes on hybridity, national identity, and mythology.

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Picasso–Giacometti

February 23–May 21, 2017
Fire Station Garage Gallery, Qatar Museums, Doha
www.firestation.org.qa

More than two hundred works by Pablo Picasso and Alberto Giacometti have been brought together for this historic exhibition traveling from the Musée national Picasso in Paris to the Fire Station in Doha. The exhibition has been curated by Catherine Grenier, director of the Fondation Giacometti, in collaboration with Serena Bucalo-Mussely and Virginie Perdrisot, and with support from the Qatar Museums.

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Picasso and Rivera
Conversations across Time

December 4, 2016–May 7, 2017
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
www.lacma.org

Presenting 150 paintings, etchings, and watercolors by Pablo Picasso and Diego Rivera, this exhibition examines moments of intersection between these two artists and how their practices were deeply influenced by the forms, myths, and structures of Mediterranean and pre-Columbian antiquity.