Picasso show draws huge crowds

Picasso show draws huge crowds

NEW YORK

Pablo Picasso is as popular as ever.

An exhibition of 300 works by the Spanish modernist drew more than 700,000 people to The Metropolitan Museum of Art between April 19 and Aug. 15. That makes it the most highly attended show since 2001.

The museum announced recently that “Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art” was the seventh-most attended show since it began tracking exhibition attendance 50 years ago. It averaged 6,700 visitors per day.

The show featured paintings, drawings, sculptures and ceramics by the artist, who died in 1973.

Museum marks 50th anniversary

DETROIT

The Dossin Great Lakes Museum on the Detroit River is marking its 50th anniversary this month with some special waterside visits. The events are planned for Saturday and next Sunday at the museum, located at Detroit’s Belle Isle park and run by the Detroit Historical Society.

On Saturday, the J.W. Westcott II mail boat will dock from noon to 3 p.m. The privately run mail boat serves the U.S. Postal Service marine post office in Detroit and makes deliveries to passing freighters.

Next Sunday, the Pride of Michigan docks from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. It’s run by the Noble Odyssey Foundation and is operated by middle and high-school-age participants in the Great Lakes Division Sea Cadets Corps program.

Airline fares rising

DALLAS

If you think air fares have been rising, it’s not your imagination.

Figures recently released from the government, while a bit dated, show that airline prices in the first three months of this year rose nearly 5 percent from a year earlier. And that doesn’t include baggage fees and other extras. But if you take a step back, air travel still looks like a bargain. Average fares are 25 percent lower than they were in 1999, after adjusting them for inflation, the government says.

The numbers were contained in a report issued by the Department of Transportation.

Associated Press