"Picasso Looks at Degas" at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts promises to be the show of the summer.  Focusing on two of the great artists of the modern period, this exhibition explores Pablo Picasso’s lifelong fascination with the life and work of Edgar Degas.  The Clark is the exclusive North American venue for this exhibition which explores the depth of the Spanish artist’s fixation through dramatic pairings and groupings that have never been brought together in this ambitious way.  The two artists shared a lifelong obsession with women that is seen in portraits of friends and images of singers, laundresses, ballet dancers, bathers, and prostitutes. While it is widely acknowledged that these are Degas’s signature themes, all are echoed in Picasso’s work. Usually identified as painters, both Degas and Picasso were innovative sculptors, printmakers, and extraordinary draftsmen, and the exhibition uses the full range of media to examine Picasso’s reaction to the challenge of Degas.   June 13, 2010 - September 12, 2010   www.clarkart.edu

Named one of the hot exhibitions of 2010 by Harper's Bazaar.