Picasso and American Art

Pablo Picasso: a name that started as a revolution, became mainstream, evolved into a platitude, and ended up as a punch line. He became the repository for everything Europe knew about art, and was the hinge between the School of Paris and the immense gathering energies of the New York School. Every artist in the last century has had to face him down; local legend Frank Gaard writes of his own struggle: “Most of my pals in high school called me Pablo or Picasso even in signing the yearbook … ” (read more). This much-anticipated show includes a couple dozen Picassos, and work by such grand types as Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and David Smith, as well as Marsden Hartley, Louise Bourgeois, and Andy Warhol, among many more. 612-375-7600; www.walkerart.org