Art of Her

April 8, 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Pablo Picasso, and to celebrate the artist's legacy, museums around the world are organizing grandiose exhibitions, Artnet reports. Artnet.

A total of 42 exhibitions will be organized in leading European and American museums and galleries, from the Pompidou Center to the Mint Museum in North Carolina, under the slogan "Picasso's Holiday 1973-2023".

"The effort is aimed at highlighting the career of an essentially European artist who, having a deep knowledge of the heritage and principles of tradition, as well as an understanding of classicism as an ethical value and contemporary problems in art, has been projected throughout world history," the statement of the established commission for the organization of exhibitions says.

In total, the celebration will cover 16 exhibitions in Spain, 12 in France, 7 in the USA and 7 more in Germany, Switzerland, Monaco, Romania, and Belgium. 

Next year will also see the opening of a new Picasso Research Center at the National Picasso Museum in Paris, where the institution's archives will be used to create a research center, a digital portal and a "privileged space for scientific exchanges and the work of researchers from around the world.