Precisely on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, on 25th November, the second session of the Doctorat Picasso focused on exploring the concealments and silences around women artists in current narrations ...
The women in the time of Lola
Lola Ruiz Picasso (1884-1958), the artist’s sister, is the major protagonist of the autumn and winter of 2021-2022 in the Museum, with an exhibition that vindicates her figure. The exhibition frames Lola in the family ...
Notes on the “Picasso and artist’s jewellery” exhibition and the “Baule and Kafir Jewels. Dialogues with Picasso” display
It was over a year ago, before the March 2020 lockdown, when the idea occurred for boosting the collaboration between two neighbouring museums. Following the “Picasso and Artists’ Jewellery” exhibition, and bearing in mind the ...
Picasso and jewellery
From the drawings he carried out during his youth in Barcelona or Madrid, to the copper engravings during the last years of his life, jewels would occupy a unique place in Pablo Picasso's pictorial and ...
The international symposium “Around Picasso”. A case about Cleaning Treatments on Sensitive Painted Surfaces
The international symposium Around Picasso: An insight into the relationship between material choices and failure mechanisms, held at the Museu Picasso de Barcelona in 2018, was a multidisciplinary forum coordinated by the museum’s Department of ...
J’AIMAIS JAMAIS
Nick de Morgoli, ‘Picasso with the Surrealist object "Jamais" by Oscar Domínguez’, Paris, 1947 You’re either Dada or you’re not. Given that chance doesn’t belong to anyone, no more than the privilege of the absurd, ...
Museums in the news more than ever, in times of pandemic
For museums the need has long been clear to rethink their cultural and social role and how their contents reach the public. The Covid-19 lockdown, apart from its immediate impact, has caused this reinvention process ...
“Exhibition Picasso 1936”: a tool between archiving, the semantic web and data visualisation
In 2011, the Museu Picasso organised the documentary exhibition "Picasso 1936. Traces of an exhibition". On the occasion of this exhibition, which, using technological resources, narrated how Picasso's exhibition, which took place in Barcelona, Bilbao ...