First Person: Picasso and Pots

Should an important Picasso painting be in a private collection? Isn’t it an important part of our artistic heritage? Shouldn’t it belong to all of us, to appreciate and enjoy and learn from, instead of belonging to a single private individual? In short, shouldn’t it be in a public museum? Of course, many such paintings are not. And no one suggests that it is wrong to own a Picasso or that art collectors are social pariahs. On the contrary, they work with museum curators, lend their paintings for important exhibitions and allow scholars to study them. With the advent […]