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Aug 24 2007 12:00am EDT

Artworthy

Artworthy is a recurring feature we'll put up each Friday to call out exhibitions, fairs, and/or other art world events we think are worth your few days of free time. This weekend's pick:

"Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon at 100"
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Through August 27, 2007

Pablo Picasso completed Demoiselles d'Avignon, a portrait of five prostitutes in a Spanish brothel, a century ago this year. The painting has a legendary status in the canon of art history because it marks Picasso's break through to the cubist style for which he is known. (In fact, Newsweek bestowed the title "Most Influential Work of Art in the Last 100 Years" upon the piece.) In recognition of the anniversary, the Museum of Modern Art in New York mounted "Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon at 100," and this is the last weekend to see the exhibition before it comes down on Monday. In addition to the painting (owned by MoMA since 1939), the show highlights studies that the artist made in preparation for the final work.

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