i recently went to the museum and spoke to the curator of the picasso exhibition, his name is gary tinterow, he is the inge -l heart chairman of the met's department of 19th century modern and contemporary art and here is our conversation. thank you for allowing us to come to the metropolitan museum. >> thank you for coming in. >> rose: interesting, here you have having a picasso exhibition of your own collection. explain this endless, endless curiosity, fascination, appreciation of picasso. >> well, it's... he's inexhaustible and the phenomenon is exhausting, right? one could think that there's complete surplus overload, we know much too much about this man. we can date works with precision to the afternoon, the morning, a saturday, a sunday, we know what he had for lunch, what he's going to have for dinner. >> rose: (laughs). >> which dog is at his feet. which print maker is at his side. and yet there's this extraordinary richness to his art. i think what makes him such a compelling fig injury that he can make such strong images which on the one hand suggest stories. he's a great storytel