Running tomorrow through April 29 at the Pompidou Centre, “Jos Houweling, Amsterdam Seventies” features 233 photo-collages many of which were published in the 1975 “700 centenboek Amsterdam” to fete the canal city’s 700th birthday. Above: Jos Houweling,”Toeristen! (Tourists!).” Taken from “700 centenboek Amsterdam,” 1975. Photos glued on cardboard, prints silver-gelatin. ©Centre Pompidou. Photograph of photo-collage: G. Meguerditchian / Dist. RMn-Gp. ©Jos Houweling.
Back to Africa: Cubism at Beaubourg
Among the more than 300 works on view through February 25 at the Centre Pompidou for its exhibition Cubism is, above, “Masque krou,” Côte d’Ivoire, undated and uncredited. (The museum actually credits the work to “anonymous,” but of course the artist had a name.) Painted wood, metal, and cork. 25.5 x 16.5 x 18.3 cm. Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon, Lyon. © Lyon MBA – Photo Alain Basset.
Art is art is art: When Picasso does Stein, there’s some there there
Among the 300+ oeuvres featured in the exhibition “Cubisme,” running at the Centre Pompidou in Paris through February 25 is, above, Pablo Picasso, “Portrait of Gertrude Stein,” 1905-1906. Oil on canvas, 100 x 81.3 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. ©The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dist RMN-Grand Palais / image MMA. © Succession Picasso 2018.
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