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How Picasso Was Sold to America | Special Episode

Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast

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The Art of Grace McCann

I think how modern art came to America seems so the grand but, but I think what was really appealing about this story that I think maybe captures that era. There were dozens of different stories happening about modern art on the west coast. Grace McCann morally at the San Francisco Museum was doing amazing things, but she also was part of this larger story. When Van Gogh show goes to San Francisco more people see it there than in New York. When Picasso goes to SanFrancisco the same thing happens. It's the creation of this national modern art world that I think was really crucial to that story and it was an insight that I think bar did have me sending these,. not just putting

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