Picasso and His Monsters

One of the most intriguing art events of this season took place last
Sunday at the LACMA auditorium. A single famous artwork was discussed
in depth and interpreted in provocative ways during a day-long
symposium devoted to what is arguably Picasso's greatest print. Seven
art scholars argued their points of view regarding one particular
etching, Minotauromachy, that the artist printed in 1935 -- the worst
year of his life -- according to his own statement. Picasso's marriage
to Russian ballerina Olga Koklova was falling apart, and he was
involved in a clandestine love affair with Marie-Thérèse Walter, who,
at the time they met, was only fifteen years old...