According to Pablo Picasso’s biographer John Richardson, “still life is the genre that Picasso would eventually explore more exhaustively and develop more imaginatively than any other artist in history.” A new exhibition on Manhattan’s Upper East Side is entirely dedicated to this often-overlooked facet of the Spanish artist’s repertoire. Featuring over 40 works created between 1908 and 1962—many from Picasso’s private collection—the show highlights recurring motifs such as the guitar, the bottle and drinking glass, and the table, while tracing the evolution of the Cubist movement. “The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it means nothing,” Picasso said. “I do not read English, an English book is a blank book to me. This does not mean that the English language does not exist. Why should I blame anyone but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing about?” —Carolina de Armas