We Are All Picasso’s Fishermen

We Are All Picasso’s Fishermen

Pablo Picasso’s “Night Fishing at Antibes” (1939) at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (all photos Hakim Bishara/Hyperallergic) A quick perusal of the headlines these days is enough for one to conclude that dictators don’t die but multiply, and that history doesn’t repeat itself — it vomits in its own mouth.  The year is 1939. It’s a balmy August night, lit by a big, yellow moon. Two fishermen in a boat are earning their keep out there off th…