Word: bozos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...retrospective was put together by Rubin and Dominique Bozo, curator-in-charge of the future Musée Picasso in Paris. The effort could have succeeded only at this moment. By now the fights over Picasso's estate between his heirs and the French government?which have kept a score of lawyers fat, tired and happy since the old man died without leaving a will?have been resolved, yet the final disposition of his work has not been locked into an institutional frame. When the Musée Picasso, which received the cream of the work from Picasso's own estate, opens...
...short, no exhibition like this can ever be mounted again. Bozo's main work with the Musée Picasso is still before him. For Rubin, the MOMA show is the climax of a career; to have brought off, within three years, two exhibitions at such a level (the other being his Cézanne show in 1977) is in some measure to have altered the history of curatorship itself. Rubin, the Iron Chancellor of MOMA, has set new standards of detail and historical cogency within the museum, and the Picasso exhibit and its admirable catalogue reflect them at every point...
Rubin, 52, set to work with the future head of that museum, Dominique Bozo, 45. Beginning in late 1977, they whittled their huge exhibition of 940 works from the Spaniard's colossal output. The logistics of getting it to New York were daunting. They involved hundreds of millions of dollars in insurance (MOMA will not reveal exactly how much), the work of 30 couriers, and some 75 air shipments from different corners of the world. The cost of the exhibition was $2 million. Of the 152 lenders, among them 56 museums, only two sources balked. One was Picasso...
...Peters--whose moves in front of the camera sometimes conjure up images of a member of the audience on "The Bozo Show"--undoubtedly will not keep Meryl Streep awake worrying about Academy Award competition. Although the script gives her virtually nothing to work with, Martin's real-life girlfriend probably has more artistically satisfying experiences on The Mike Douglas Show...