{"id":66141,"date":"2026-01-12T22:07:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T18:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=66141"},"modified":"2026-01-23T16:18:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T12:18:22","slug":"picasso-the-figure","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/picasso-the-figure\/","title":{"rendered":"Picasso, the Figure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A landmark monographic exhibition that traces Picasso\u2019s lifelong preoccupation with the human form. Included are more than 130 artworks from the Mus\u00e9e National Picasso-Paris and other institutions, as well as Louvre Abu Dhabi, DCT Abu Dhabi, and other regional collections that suggest the artist\u2019s influence on the Arab world; also featured are works by key Arab modernists who have engaged with Picasso\u2019s legacy, such as Jewad Selim&#8217;s Alqailoula [The Nap] (1958, below).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-66681\" src=\"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/\u00a9Departement-de-la-culture-et-du-tourisme-\u2013-Abu-Dhabi.-Photo_-Danilo-Quiambao-Seven-Studios-7.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"2135\" height=\"1389\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The exhibition offers a chronological itinerary of Picasso\u2019s radical transformations, intertwining figuration with enduring mythological archetypes across painting, sculpture, drawing, and ceramics. It is curated by C\u00e9cile Debray, Virginie Perdrisot-Cassan (both from Mus\u00e9e national Picasso\u2013Paris) and Aisha AlAhmadi (Associate Curator at Louvre Abu Dhabi).<\/p>\n<p>Unmissable. To 31 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">A landmark monographic exhibition that traces Picasso\u2019s lifelong preoccupation with the human form. Included are more than 130 artworks from the Mus\u00e9e National Picasso-Paris and other institutions, as well as Louvre Abu Dhabi, DCT Abu Dhabi, and other regional collections <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/picasso-the-figure\/\" title=\"Picasso, the Figure\"> [&#8230; more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66682,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[50,96],"class_list":["post-66141","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","tribe_events_cat-art","tribe_events_cat-exhibition","cat_art","cat_exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/66141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/66141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66141"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=66141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}