"If social art history entails studying an artwork’s reception, few scholars have been so committed to this approach as Hannah Gadsby. Already in secondary school, at Launceston College near Tasmania’s northern coast, they developed a novel mode of discourse analysis. For an assignment, the future comedian was asked to ‘write about one piece of work.’ They chose Pablo Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, ‘the painting that adorned the cover of my book about Cubism,’ as they explain in their 2022 memoir, Ten Steps to Nanette. ...”
A bank of posters for “It’s Pablo-matic: Picasso According to Hannah Gadsby” near the Brooklyn Museum in New York.
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