In February 2012, the NY Daily News reported that major Hollywood star Antonio Banderas has signed on to play Picasso in a biopic. Titled 33 Días and directed by Carlos Saura, the movie depicts Picasso during the 33 days that it took him to paint Guernica. Banderas has been asked to play Picasso but always declined before.
"[Picasso is] a character that has pursued me for a long time and I always rejected. He deserves a lot of respect because I am from Málaga, and I was born four blocks from where he was born,” he told Spanish newspaper El Pais.
Beginning on April 30, 2012, Larry Gagosian's galleries in New York and London will show his fourth Picasso exhibition. The San Francisco Chronicle, in “Picasso's Naked Man Selling for $23 Million Shows Gagosian Clout,” chronicled how Gagosian has been able to get the involvement of Picasso’s heirs to throw on the spectacular exhibits. The article noted that the first three exhibitions drew a total of 260,000 visitors.
Art Media Agency reported on February 2012 that the musée d’art et d’industrie André Diligent, also known as la Piscine de Roubaix, is showing an exhibition that celebrates Picasso and American photographer David Douglas Duncan. Duncan often photographed Picasso at work in his studio. The exhibit presents 157 of Duncan’s photos next to 100 of Picasso’s paintings.
The Tate Britain’s exhibition Picasso and Modern British Art, on display from February 15 through July 15, 2012, has resulted in a flurry of news coverage and reviews. The exhibition, which highlights Picasso’s The Three Dancers, was described by the FT Magazine as “an unusual, anecdotal exhibition about art and politics, the history of British taste and [the country’s] slow acceptance of European modernism.”