Painting Picasso

M+’s major Picasso exhibition this month puts 60 works of the father of Cubism in dialogue with Asian artists

By Zabrina Lo

“There’s a natural challenge for a museum that is dedicated to one artist who has now been dead for half a century, in spite of his worldwide fame, to [answer] the question of relevance,” says Doryun Chong, the artistic director and chief curator of M+. The artist in question is Spanish painter Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), one of the founders of Cubism and a giant of the modern art world. This month, M+ and Musée National Picasso-Paris, with support from the French May arts festival, are jointly organising The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Picasso for Asia—A Conversation, an exhibition that puts together more than 60 works by the Spaniard and a further 80 by around 20 Asian and Asian-diasporic artists, taken from the Hong Kong institution’s M+ Collections. Running from…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2025

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