• Hugh Eakin on 1939, Pablo Picasso, and Modern Art in America

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    Andrew talks to Hugh Eakin, author of Picasso’s War, about 1939 — the year when the United States bumped into Pablo Picasso and modern art arrived in America.

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    Hugh Eakin, a senior editor at Foreign Affairs, has written about museums and the art world for The New York Review of Books, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and The New York Times.

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