MIRó MURAL BACK ON VIEW, MISSPELLINGS AND ALL

On Tuesday, a mural by Joan Miró went on display as part of the Guggenheim Museum’s new exhibition “From Picasso to Pollock: Classics of Modern Art,” Tara Burghart reports in Newsday. The twenty-foot-long mural—which has been hidden behind a false wall for much of the last thirty-five years—features the word ALICE spelled out in huge letters. It was commissioned by Harry F. Guggenheim as a memorial to his wife, Alicia, and though the variant spelling of Mrs. Guggenheim’s first name caused some consternation at the work’s 1967 unveiling, the artist adamantly refused to change it.