Debuting amid the 2022 edition of the Dak'art Biennial, Picasso in Dakar, 1972-2022—curated by Guillaume de Sardes, Hélène Joubert, El Hadji Malick Ndiaye, and Ousseynou Wade, with project managers Chih-Chia Chung, Safia Belmenouar, Sophie Daynes-Diallo, Sarah Lagrevol—brought together works from four lending institutions: from France, the Musée Picasso and Musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac; and in Senegal, the Théodore Monod Museum of African Art as well as the host venue, the Museum of Black Civilizations (Fig. 1). The exhibition marked the passage of fifty years since a solo show of the Spanish artist's work appeared at the now defunct Musée Dynamique, Dakar's first art museum to be built under the supervision of independent Senegal's inaugural president, Léopold Sédar Senghor. To revisit this 1972 moment in 2022 was to implicitly remind audiences of the city's enduring status as an African superconductor in the circuitry of the global art...

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