Checkerboard and Playing Cards
Juan Gris
Promised Gift from the Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection
The Leonard A. Lauder Collection is currently on view at the Met through February 16, 2015. Eighty one works by some of the most prominent Cubists are being shown for the first time, including paintings, drawings, collages, and sculpture by Braque, Gris, Léger, and Picasso. The Modern Art Notes Podcast features en episode with Rebecca Rabinow, a curator in the Met Museum’s department of Modern and contemporary art. Host Tyler Green and Rabinow discuss the significance of confetti and the visual puns of Cubism, along with the notion of the artworks as game and the audience as players. Here’s what they have to say! Find out more about the exhibition here.