art into something new while referencing their originsa few years ago you shared an archive of personal photos and home movies with the public what do these reveali knew my grandmothers old trunk held a massive treasure we started in the early 2000s and it took more than 10 years to catalogue and rebuild the history of my russian family the idea was to show how my grandmother olga started out as a russian dancer in the famous ballet russes company that was exploring a new way of dancing and music in the 1910s and 1920s and how her social life was transformed after she married picassosecondly i wanted to highlight the disaster and drama of the russian revolution she received letters from her family which was being slowly destroyed by the revolutionyour halfsister marina has been critical of picassos personal life and written about her miserable childhood and the burden of the family name what challenges do his heirs face in managing his vast estatei think art is meant to allow people to have differences we are a big family and some people think differently we are fortunate to inherit a vast quantity of artworks we live a life without any economic problems but we also spend our time supporting the arts