SAN ANTONIO, TX.- On Wednesday, May 25, the McNay Art Museum opened a new exhibition celebrating two pioneering artists in the Cubist art movement—Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Picasso and Braque: Radicals explores Cubism as one of the most influential artistic developments of the 1900s that challenged traditional perspectives of how we see the world. The exhibition is on view in the Lawson Print Gallery from May 25 to September 4, 2022.

Although there is debate on who developed Cubism first, Picasso and Braque are credited with establishing this new visual language that presented infinite possibilities and catalyzed future developments in the visual arts. This exhibition features work by twentieth-century artists who took inspiration from these revolutionary ideas and practices, including American artists Fannie Hillsmith and John Marin, and Texas artist Bill Reily, among others. Paintings, drawings, sculptures, and prints demonstrate how Cubism transcended time and space.

In the exhibition, paintings, drawings, sculpture, and prints from the McNay permanent collection come together to demonstrate how Cubism transcended time and space. Admission to the exhibition is free every Thursday from 4 to 9 p.m., courtesy of H-E-B, and every first Sunday of the month thanks to the Dickson-Allen Family Foundation.

Picasso and Braque: Radicals is organized for the McNay Art Museum by Lyle W. Williams, Curator of Prints and Drawings, Curator of Modern Art; and Rafael Fernando Gutierrez Jr., the inaugural Douglass Foundation Intern in Curatorial Studies.

Lead funding is generously provided by the Elizabeth Huth Coates Foundation of 1992.