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Steven Glovsky
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A college girlfriend first showed me Picasso’s Guernica at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). She knew it. I knew nothing.
I credit the power of its black-and-white imagery and wall mural size for a lifelong appreciation of art and museums. It still inhabits my memory.
Commissioned by Spain’s pre-Franco government in 1937, Picasso lodged it at MoMA until democracy was restored to his native land. I visited it several time in New York (including after that girlfriend). And when it finally returned to Spain in 1981, I only hoped there would be another opportunity.