Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris

If you haven't visited this exhibit yet, do yourself a favor and get there. Just a wonderful collection of Cubist work — along with some other miscellany: photographs and the like — culled together from traveling pieces, as well as some of the Phila. Museum's own.

The exhibit kicks off with a self-portrait Picasso made in 1906:



As you walk in, you're given a personal MP3-player device, through which you can listen to an "audiotour." The narrators told me, through my headphones, that Picasso had...