Not to take anything away from the brilliant set and costume designers who create solely for live performance—dance, opera, theater—but it’s always a leap and a lark to see what painters and sculptors do in that big box called a stage. From Pablo Picasso to David Hockney—with Matisse, Gontcharova, Miró, Louise Nevelson, Robert Wilson, and more in-between—this exhibition asks how work for the stage changes or redefines an artist’s approach to his or her own work? —L.J.

Picasso to Hockney: Modern Art on Stage
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McNay Art Museum / San Antonio / Art
McNay Art Museum / San Antonio / Art
David Hockney, “Parade,” 1981. Collection of the McNay Art Museum, Gift of the Friends of the McNay © David Hockney
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