The term performativity is a postmodern idea that regards language and actions as not just describing the world, but shaping its reality. Performativity is ambiguous. It plays with the truth, the question of where the objective world ends and the subjective world starts. On the centennial of Pablo Picasso’s painting The Three Dancers, the contemporary artist Wu Tsang and the author and curator Enrique Fuenteblanca are featuring the work, plus 45 other Picassos, in a gallery staged as a theater. Looking at Picasso through the lens of performativity, this exhibition offers a fresh exploration of his many personae. As for The Three Dancers, is it an observation of the world, an impression of the world, or a strange situation in which the impression creates, or is, the world? —Jimmy Lux Fox