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Article: Here's Pablo! (resurgence in popularity of artist Pablo Picasso)
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- Newsweek
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- May 6, 1996
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BIENVENUE SUR LE WEB DE PIcasso, the computer screen says. Last week Pablo began presiding over his own Web site (www.clubinternet.com/picasso), while the Museum of Modern Art in New York opened yet another major exhibition, "Picasso and Portraiture" (through Sept. 17). This month "Picasso Paints a Portrait," a new book of photographs by David Douglas Duncan (Abrams. $19.95), hit the stores. Steve Martin's "Picasso at the Lapin Agile," a hilarious play about a weirdly plausible meeting between the artist and Einstein, continues to pack 'em in off-Broadway. "Sesame Street" animates Picasso paintings to teach cooperation to 3-year-olds. Wait, we're not done yet. This fall ...