Conversations from the Cullman Center: Picasso’s War: Hugh Eakin with Maxwell Anderson
Pablo Picasso, Paris and New York, obsession, and modern art. The distinguished journalist Hugh Eakin talks about his new book.
Pablo Picasso became a nearly overnight sensation in 1940—but not without considerable drama. Encompassing a renegade progressive lawyer, a precocious museum director, and a persecuted art dealer, Eakin takes readers into the Great Depression, Hitler’s campaign against modern art, and an obsession that ultimately shifted the epicenter of the art world from Paris to New York. In Picasso’s War, Hugh Eakin tells the untold story of a single exhibition that changed the art world forever. Hugh Eakin researched and wrote Picasso’s War during his 2017–2018 Fellowship at the Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. He will discuss the book with distinguished museum director Maxwell Anderson.
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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Hugh Eakin is a senior editor at Foreign Affairs and has previously served as a senior editor at The New York Review of Books. He has reported from many countries in the Middle East and has written about museums and the art world for The New York Review of Books, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and the New York Times. He is the recipient of a Public Scholar Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities and was a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library in 2017–2018.
Maxwell Anderson has served as director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, as curator of Greek and Roman Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and as president of the Association of Art Museum Directors. He is president of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation and Community Partnership, dedicated to promoting the work of southern Black artists.
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