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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Lauren Mechling

‘This is an experiment’: is Hannah Gadsby’s Picasso exhibition really that bad?

red poster with Picasso on the left and Hannah Gadsby on the right
‘This exhibition is an experiment in how to make a [museum show with a] more conversational voice’ … Pablo Picasso and Hannah Gadsby. Photograph: Photo: Alan Moyle

The Brooklyn Museum is always looking to create a stir – and boy did it succeed this time around.

Since its opening last Friday, It’s Pablo-matic: Picasso According to Hannah Gadsby has inspired punchy Twitter discourse about the end of the culture war, and establishment takedowns the likes of which we haven’t seen since the New York Times weighed in on Guy Fieri’s Times Square outpost. The paper’s art critic Jason Farago left the Picasso show “sad and embarrassed”; the Artnews review of Pablo-matic came with a headline trumpeting that the show is “disastrous”.

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