Content about Pablo Picasso
Nacho Picasso raps with Blue Sky Black Death at KVRXplosion. KVRX hosted this free event featuring numerous local and indie artists at the Spiderhouse Cafe on Wednesday during SXSW.
State governments nationwide have targeted arts programs for budget cuts in a cash-strapped era. As states and universities reallocate taxpayer money to core subjects such as English, math and science, UT administrators should take a hard look at our arts programs. Students should also question whether such programs can lead them to stable careers or if they are frivolous expenditures with no bearing on the real economy.
The Harry Ransom Center will display a plate painted by Pablo Picasso in an upcoming exhibition.
The plate was donated to the Ransom Center by photojournalist David Douglas Duncan in honor of Stanley Marcus, said Mary Alice Harper, a photography archivist at the Ransom Center.
“Picasso was a very generous man. He gave David Duncan one of the books he had been working in as a gift the first day they met. Later in the friendship on the spur of the moment, he picked up one of his dinner plates and painted [Lump], Duncan’s dog, for him,” said Harper.
Editor’s Note: This is the second in a two-part series exploring the history and notoriety of the cocktails associated with Ernest Hemingway.
There are writers who drank, and there was Ernest Hemingway — an author who continues to influence countless writers. His stripped down, journalistic style is like cubism is to Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque; he owned it, and before he succumbed to extreme alcoholism, he managed to produce an extensive canon.
