Unlike many of his contemporaries, Walt Whitman collected an "abundance of photographs" of himself. And like many people today who snap and post thousands of selfies, the poet, who lived during the birth of commercial photography, used portraits to craft a version of the self that wasn't necessarily grounded in reality, notes scholar Trevin Corsiglia. As one expert has noted, no other writer at the time "was so systematically recorded or so concerned with the strategic uses of his pictures and their projective meanings for himself and the public."

  Thursday July 3, Last Chance: Picasso: Tête-à-tête at Gatosian You see me here, and yet I’ve already changed, I’m already elsewhere.—Pablo Picasso, 1963 Picasso: Tête-à-tête, presented in partnership with the artist’s daughter Paloma Picasso, offers a unique opportunity to view over fifty rarely seen works. On view are paintings, sculptures, and drawings from the full span of the artist’s career—1896 to 19...