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The Arts Intel Report

Louise Bourgeois & Pablo Picasso: Anatomies of Desire

June 9 – Sept 14, 2019
Limmatstrasse 270, 8005 Zürich, Switzerland

Louis Bourgeois meets up with Pablo Picasso—the first time he’s been exhibited in dialogue with a female sculptor. Battle of the sexes, you’re thinking. But no. The curator Marie-Laure Bernadec says she’s not succumbing to “the clichés of the virile painter armed with a phallic brush and the sculptress armed with a knife.” Nevertheless, a formidable face-off. —L.J.