Curating Cultural Legacies: LAURENT LE BON on Picasso, Modern Art, and the Future of Museums

Laurent Le Bon, President of Musée Picasso in Paris at the time of interview, is now the President of the Centre Pompidou. The Musée Picasso holds over 5,000 of Spanish artist Pablo Picasso’s artworks and tens of thousands of sketches, photos, and many scripts, making the collection an impressive and holistic representation of Picasso’s career.
Centre Pompidou houses the largest museum for modern art in Europe Musée National d'Art Moderne, a vast public library, and IRCAM, a centre for music and acoustic research. His curatorial practice has included curating 50 exhibitions for Centre Pompidou, Musée d’Orsay, Musée de l’Arte Moderne Versailles and others across France.

· www.museepicassoparis.fr

· www.creativeprocess.info