Taking the Stage
Nov 01, 2020
4 minutes
BY JOHN DORFMAN
OBERT L. B. TOBIN, who died in 2001, was a San Antonio, Texas, collector and performance advocate who put together a collection, spanning four centuries, that chronicles the collaboration between artists and the theater. He bequeathed these artworks to the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, which last year mounted an exhibition titled “Picasso to Hockney: Modern Art on Stage.” Now through January 17, a version of that show is on view at the Dayton Art Institute in Dayton, Ohio. “Picasso to Hockney” reveals how visual artists embraced the modernist ambition of a “total work of art” that would combine painting, music, drama, and dance. In the service of cooperation between the arts,
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