🖼️ Picasso and Paper was a victim of COVID-19 circumstances. The pandemic shut down the exhibit a mere 51 days after its Jan. 25, 2020, debut at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, then postponed its Sept. 22, 2020, opening at the Cleveland Museum of Art indefinitely. But the show’s Dec. 8 opening at the Cleveland Museum of Art is well worth the wait. 🖌️ A staggering 278 works depicting famed Spanish artist Pablo Picasso’s versatile use of paper — a collaboration between the Royal Academy of Arts, Cleveland Museum of Art and Musee National Picasso-Paris — will be on display. Together, they illustrate how Picasso challenged the idea of art as an accurate representation of the world via a material, generally affordable and easily accessible, in which he could be his most experimental, says Britany Salsbury, the Cleveland Museum of Art’s curator of prints and drawings. “He explored the idea of vision, of perception and developed Cubism, which was a movement that abstracted a subject...