ann temkin: much more impatiently. he did not date them with the year, but the day he made it. e same with sculpture. charlie: it characterized primarily by the sheer pleasure of invention and experimentation. anne umland: i think that comes through in the show. you just go from gallery to gallery and each time any new set of materials, a new subject matter, a new way of making. it is just hard to believe that in some cases comes from one artist. there is that much range. charlie: someone writing in the "times" said that the exhibition raises the question of whether also was a better sculptor or painter. we have already touched on that. he was great at each. there are just so many people who know so little about him as a school term. anne umland: an important point was he was trained as a painter. with new school for years to learn to paint. his father was a painter. he had no schooling in culture, no training whatsoever. when he approached it right from the start it was as a self-taught artist borrowing materials, using friends' studios and equipment, and he kept that spirit hi

joining me are the exhibition curators ann temkin and anne umland. i am pleased to have them both at this table. what wonderful titles. >> we're proud of them. >> rose: you should be. why now? everybody is raving about this. picasso attracts a crowd for his brilliance and the diversity of his work and the constantly changing work that he did. and this realization that sculpture is such an important part of his work. >> right. >> rose: and it hadn't been here how many years? >> 50. and i think the general fact is that sculpture is less known and less thought about than painting because it's harder to make a scene. it takes up more space, more trouble to transport, more trouble to arrange in a gallery and, so, therefore, across the board sculpture is less well known, but particularly with picasso. >> rose: how good was picasso as a sculptor? (laughter) >> as good as he was at everything else, i think. i mean, i think that's one of the revelations of the show. >> rose: that's exactly what someone said to me. i had no idea he was as good a sculptor as he

. >> curators ann umlin and ann temkin spent more than three years borrowing works from around the world. >> we are looking at picasso's bathers. >> the amazing thing about picasso that comes through this show especially is his sense of experiment and his desire to invent. >> >> as the catalog for this exhibition makes clear, picasso loved to use common household materials in unusual ways. >> here are two kitchen colanders welded together making the head of a woman. >> this piece and his iconic guitars demonstrate the artist's inspiration came not from europe but from africa. this giant of the 20th century revered african art for its power. >> a power that you can't really explain or identify maybe, but that you feel. >> feel in your heart and soul. >> here is a picasso that we all can relate to. >> in midtown, i'm sandy kenyon channel 7 eyewitness news. >> we live in such a great city. we have access to some of the best stuff out there. >> most people dread them. workplace performance reviews. now relationship experts are recommending regular reviews with your significant other. >> and