The Rise and Fall of Picasso

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Celebration Picasso is an exhibition which will open at the Brooklyn Museum in June. Many dealers and collectors around the world are anxiously waiting to see how it will be received. Vima Da: There s definitely a sense that somehow he s lost his cool, that the way he treated women both in his personal life and in his painting is somehow just not acceptable anymore. We ll see you back here tomorrow for another episode of The Intelligence.

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