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From: art reviews Category: Art Date: 07 November 2007 Time: 06:01 AM Review: http://www.hellynahmad.com/currentexhibition.php This is a nice show of that great art you might enjoy shopping for if you're a billionaire. They take a lot of looking if you cant buy. Matthew Collings and Emma Biggs have written a catalogue essay with stuff like this: "Picasso starts dissecting his own art, picking formats and redoing them in endless repetitions as if he is asking, “What is painting?”…it is the role of the artist that he seems to be examining... What does a painter do? How is a painting made? How much can you strip away and still produce an image that works?” " True enough but not something we hadn't thought about. We await the Revolution (for which Picasso was a paid up plotter) to liberate art from its commodity status, art this good should not be in a cork street shop. The Tate Modern, our greatest museum, has a pathetic selection of late great Picassos compared to this. Is that right?