“Jazzmen,” Jacques Mahé de la Villeglé, 1961, torn posters mounted on canvas, on view in “Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950-1980” at The Met Breuer, on loan from the Tate
Friday Photo: ‘Jazzmen’ by Villeglé
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Paul Klee + Gertrude Stein + Nederlands Dans Theater
On the fifth floor of the Met Breuer, in an exhibition called “Humor and Fantasy — The Berggruen Paul Klee Collection,” is this untitled Paul Klee watercolor painting from 1914:
A dance program called Shutters Shut was performed among the Paul Klee work by two dancers from the Nederlands Dans Theater who danced in time to Gertrude Stein’s voice reciting her poem “If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso.”
The dance looked like this:
