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Fashion and jewelry fans will want to take note of our new exhibition Deserts Jewels: North African Jewelry and Photography from the Xavier Guerrand-Hermès Collection. It pulls together more than 90 pieces of hand-crafted jewelry and dozens of photographs from Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Egypt, and Tunisia collected by Xavier Guerrand-Hermes, of the famed Paris-based fashion house. Many of the

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Opening June 17, 2010 Late Renoir follows the renowned painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir through the final—and most fertile and innovative—decades of his career. At the height of his creative powers and looking toward posterity, Renoir created art that was timeless, enticing, and worthy of comparison to the greatest of the old masters, such as Raphael, Titian, and Rubens.   Watch this space for a

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Thanks to all the mom bloggers who passed the kids off to dad, or the babysitter, and came out to celebrate the finale of Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris with us last Friday, April 30th. Here's the Flickr photo stream from the gathering. We lucked out with amazing weather, and some pretty tasty cocktails. Stay tuned for more blogger events at the PMA. Have a suggestion for one? Email it to

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We asked Alan Lopez (left), a producer in NYC whose knowledge of music culture blows us away, to create a Picasso-inspired playlist. Check out his comments and curated picks, below, which you can download from iTunes and listen to while walking through our exhibition. Start with track #1 in the first gallery and work your way through the musical art journey... 1. To Be Continued... Ben Frost,

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We're celebrating the final week of Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris, which ends on May 2. In honor of Picasso, we're giving away tickets to another hometown favorite, the Phillies! To enter our giveaway, simply snap a photo of yourself wearing your favorite Phillies gear (hat, jersey, etc) anywhere in the Museum where photography is permitted (so, not in the special exhibition galleries).

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"Give me a museum and I’ll fill it,” Picasso once said. That’s exactly what several museums around the country are doing this spring—filling their galleries with some of the Spanish artists’s masterpieces. From New York City to Seattle, Picasso is appearing all over the arts scene. Here are a few exhibitions to explore, in addition to our own at the PMA. By Picasso blogger Silvana Pop “Picasso:

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We are in the final week of Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris at the PMA! If you haven't seen the exhibition, come check us out. And if you have, come back and show us more love. In the meantime, read this funny blog post about Picasso's penchant for stripped shirts. Maybe you'll be inspired to snap a photo in your hippest boating shirt and send to us on Facebook -- in the sartorial spirit of

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Continuing yesterday's conversation on how Cubism influences fashion, it's interesting to see how makeup artists translate the trend, too. Using the face as a canvas, experts painted on bold shades, geometric outlines, and interlocking bands of color at recent runway shows.  To find out if we were onto something major, we contacted Kate Lee, a Chanel makeup artist who takes an artistic

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Picasso is popping up everywhere these days, even on the runways. Designers like Phillip Lim and Giambattista Valli took inspiration from the artist's style of abstract cubism, combining different shapes, colors, and textures to create fantastic collage-like pieces for their spring collections. But off the runway, how does one work the cubist trend? For that, we spoke to Cathy Rubin,

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All Philadelphia-area mom bloggers are invited to a special Mom’s Night Out at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on April 30th at 6pm. The first 25 bloggers to RSVP will get one free ticket to the Picasso exhibition, plus a free "Ice Cubism" cocktail and Picasso poster. Those who RSVP after the first 25 can purchase a discounted admission ticket for $18. Click here to RSVP by Wednesday, April 28.

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Picasso blogger Jaime Bramble on the art of the cocktail...Happy weekend. "You don’t need me to tell you that the Picasso exhibition is a feast for the eyes. But what you may not realize is that, beyond the galleries, a feast of a whole different kind awaits you. I’m talking about the specialty cocktail that was created in honor of Picasso's legacy: the Ice Cubism. I just sampled one (or two..

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Grow your own Picasso? Yes, you can. Check out the "Supertunia Pretty Much Picasso" hybrid petunia created by plant supplier Proven Winners. This beauty took home the Innovation Award at the International Plant Fair in Germany recently. And it's racked up 14 awards to date at various planting trials around the world. Gardening buffs praise its unique combination of colors--the violet bloom piped

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Picasso blogger, Erin Cameron, tells us why the Salon Cubism is her favorite room in the Picasso exhibition. "By far, my favorite part of Picasso and the Avant-Garde was the room about cubism in the French Salon. In case you don't remember, this room was a bit larger than most and painted terra cotta red. What made it stand out, apart from the color, was the relation between the layout of the

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Curator Michael Taylor discusses Juan Gris' Still Life Before an Open Window, Place Ravignan. It's the first Cubist painting to blend the interior and the exterior worlds together. Sadly, a computer screen doesn't do the colors justice -- the palette is strange and mystical, and definitely worth seeing in person (find this work in the Synthetic Cubism gallery). What do you think of it?

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Taking the kids to Picasso? Check out this post from mom blogger Melissa Agnert on her fun day at the Museum, and see how you can win a copy of this imaginative children's book written by Mil Nieplod and Jeannyves Verdu, which we love and highly recommend (for adults, too).

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We rounded up questions from the blogosphere about the Picasso exhibition, then put them to curator Michael Taylor. Here's what we found out for you... Q: In preparing the exhibition, did you come across anything that surprised you or that you didn’t know about Picasso? (Frank Luzi, Havertown) MT: "The only major discovery for me was the existence of archival photographs of the PMA’s painting

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Hear how the public first reacted to Cubism, as curator Michael Taylor discusses works from the exhibition, including one that was dubbed the Mona Lisa of Cubism...

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Picasso and his contemporaries in Paris were the kind of risk-takers who weren't afraid to create a twisted sculpture out of an absinthe glass or drag a comb through wet paint to simulate a wood-grain effect on a canvas. It's adventurous. It also reminds us of all the daring art experiments we've tried over the years -- some of which were amazing (right?) but most of which didn't pan out as well

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If you haven't had a chance to sit on Sigmund, the very cool and very comfy pouf in the Salon Cubism (almost visible in this shot), you're missing out. The circular seat was specially commissioned by the Museum for the Picasso exhibition and designed by local artist/explorer Virgil Marti. For more musings on Marti, check out this article by Matthew Singer, and if you didn't catch our video 

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Listen as curator Michael Taylor discusses Pablo Picasso's comic-strip-like series of political prints in Dream and Lie of Franco.

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Coming to check out Picasso this weekend? Don't forget to say the name "Pablo" when buying your ticket at the Museum admission desk to get a free pin. Wearing it will make you feel as happy as the 80 degree weather we're predicted to get. Enjoy.  

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By Picasso Posse blogger Silvana Pop Romanian born artist Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) met Margit Pogany, a Hungarian art student, in Paris in 1910. She was his inspiration for what has become one the most acclaimed masterpieces of the 20th century: Mademoiselle Pogany (1931), on display in the “Eastern Europeans in Paris” gallery of the Picasso and the Avant-Garde exhibition. Since the

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The countdown to the video contest has begun. As you think about your top 10 reasons to see Picasso, we figured we'd share a little video short from our intrepid blogger Danya Henninger. She set up her camera outside the Picasso gallery and filmed visitors' reactions to the exhibition. Take a look at which work of art people liked the most -- and what else they had to say. 

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Time to get creative, Picasso vloggers. We want to know your "top 10" reasons for coming to check out the Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris exhibition. Make it the topic of a video, short film, or animation spot, and post it to our Facebook page or send it to kari.molvar@philamuseum.org by Fri, April 9th. We'll choose the best video and air it on this site. What else is up for grabs? The

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A work of art that you can touch? Yes, the Museum specially commissioned this "pouf" for the Salon Cubism gallery in the Picasso exhibition, which visitors can lounge on. Find out how the artist, Virgil Marti, dreamed it up.

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The galleries got a pop-culture facelift this week when a VH1 video crew stopped by to broadcast its Top 20 Countdown with Jim Shearer from the Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris exhibition. Press Officer Lindsay Warner (that's her, pictured) tagged along to guide the cameras through the Museum and block any eager school groups from jumping in the shot (hey mom!). Here, she gives us a

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Picasso Posse blogger Jen Anolik is an English major at Dickinson College who put her research skills to work and turned up some beautiful and strange poetry that Picasso wrote in his day. She shares a few stanzas with us. Picasso’s interest in poetry is not entirely surprising considering that he hung out with poets in Paris, such as Cocteau, Breton, and Apollinaire. Picasso’s prose has

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Check out the winner of our video contest. We asked Picasso Posse bloggers to film as many people as possible saying the name "Picasso." The winning entry is by Yidi Outhier - it captured our attention, hands down. Take a look!

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Say hello to Silvana Pop, a Picasso Posse blogger who's out and about on the art scene, and works in public relations at Please Touch Museum, the Children's Museum of Philadelphia. Here, she writes about visiting the Picasso exhibition with little ones in tow. When my brother was six years old, he wrote a report about a family trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. While I do not remember all

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Curator Michael Taylor discusses why Picasso created this illustration while blindfolded. It's pretty cool.

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Have you ever wondered what it takes to pull off a major museum exhibition like Picasso? Ever thought about what happens beyond the search for objects in far-flung lands, the schmoozing with art dealers, the opening night galas? Picasso blogger Jaime Bramble give us a "day in the life" of one our own curators... My recent chat with the fabulous Claire Howard (pictured), curatorial research

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We recently installed a cool "Discussion" kiosk in the Museum, where you can post comments/ thoughts/ daydreams that occur to you after walking through the Picasso exhibition. It's kinda fascinating to look through the different posts and see what people have to say. Here's a favorite comment we wanted to share...(want more? click here to read the latest posts). "Early 20th Century was a time

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Hey, look at these rad new Pablo buttons, created especially for Picasso and Avant-Garde in Paris. We're kinda obsessed with them. Here's the deal if you want to get one: Anyone who says the word "Pablo" when buying a ticket or membership to the Museum scores a free button. FYI, we only printed up a limited number, so one per person. Share the news, spread the Picasso love.  

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Check out the Phillies "Phanatic" on the steps of the Museum, leading into the Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris exhibition. The feathery green creature's likeness visited us as part of a cool public art project.  To learn more, go to www.visitphilly.com/phanatic. Go Phillies. Go Picasso.   Photo by M. Edlow for GPTMC

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Our latest Picasso blogger, Jaime Bramble, is the Copywriter/Web Content Manager at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. When she's not busy coding, she's pursing her MLA degree at the University of Pennsylvania, with concentrations in Creative Writing and South African Studies. Her fiction has appeared in A Capella Zoo, Cantaraville, Slow Trains, and others. I always thought collage was the stuff

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The Education department at the Museum recently created a nifty "Family Guide" for the Picasso and the Avant-Garde exhibition. It's full of simple but thought-provoking games and teasers (try this one: which two paintings are most alike and different in the Cubism Salon?). You can find the guide on your way into the exhibition. Although it's technically geared toward kids, it's actually a lot of

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Meet Emily Heller, a Picasso Posse blogger from Temple University, who tells us why the fragmented planes of Cubism are so cool. I saw a Picasso exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City with my parents when I was seven. As a child, being bustled around by adults in a crowded gallery was not my idea of a fun day out, however the Picasso paintings were forever burned in my memory.

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Picasso Posse blogger Erin Cameron teaches art history and writes the clever blog Art Without Pretense (tagline: the trials of a starving art historian). We asked her to share her thoughts on what inspires her about the Picasso exhibition. Papier collé, literally glued paper, is a subject which has preoccupied me for the last few years. Following a grad course which traced the history of

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Curator Michael Taylor discusses Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris - now on view through April 25, 2010. 

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The Americans in Paris gallery in the Picasso exhibition spotlights the "Lost Generation," aka the group of expatriate artists and writers who moved to Paris in the 1920s, hung out in cafes with the likes of Picasso, and caused a stir (see curator Michael Taylor's clip and the photograph of Ada Smith, a jazz singer and dancer known as "Bricktop," for more on that). The personalities and

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Check out Curator Michael Taylor discussing the Americans in Paris gallery - focusing on Gertrude Stein, Bricktop, and Aaron Douglas.

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Do you love Picasso? Do you love to blog? The Philadelphia Museum of Art just launched the blog you're reading now to celebrate the opening of the special exhibition, Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris, and we want you to be a part of it. The Museum is looking for a select group of art-loving, socially-wired individuals to become part of our Picasso Posse blogger community. Bloggers will be

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