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Picasso at the Guggenheim is the Daily Pic by Blake Gopnik

Black-and-White Picasso

The Daily Pic: At the Guggenheim, Picasso seems photographic.

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(Collection of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Museum Berggruen © 2012 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York)
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Unlikely as it may seem, this 1942 reclining nude by Picasso is photographic—or at least that’s the conclusion I come to in this week’s Newsweek, where I take on the show called “Picasso Black and White”, now at the Guggenheim museum in New York.

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