Art
Diversity and Fraternity in 19th-Century French Prints
The Société des Aquafortistes encouraged not only the printmaking arts, but also a sense of camaraderie among its artists.
Auguste Rodin
Art
Sarah Lucas Squashes Rodin’s Idealism
At the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, an exhibition marking the centennial of Rodin's death juxtaposes his work with Sarah Lucas's materially soft but conceptually tough sculptures.
Art
Sculptor Camille Claudel Finally Gets Her Own Museum
In the French town of Nogent-sur-Seine, the Musée Camille Claudel opened last month with 43 of the artist’s sculptures, the largest collection anywhere in the world.
News
Billionaire Opens Museum in a Reconstructed Baroque Palace in Potsdam
POTSDAM — Touted as the “youngest and noblest of all German private museums,” the Museum Barberini opened to the public on January 23 in an area lined with Prussian palaces and gardens on the banks of the old Alter Markt Square, a stone’s throw from some of the city’s
Art
An Artist Wittily Remixes Rodin
In her show at Paula Cooper Gallery, Liz Glynn keeps Rodin's signature realism and physicality, but sculpts her bodies to be more wretched.
Books
How Rodin Shaped Rilke as a Young Poet
Who knew that Rodin in his 60s met, inspired, and shaped Rilke in his 20s?
Film
Dancing Rodin’s Sensual Poses
PARIS — Dance that pushes sensual and temporal boundaries and sculpture that pushes formal boundaries share a solid connection while simultaneously remaining, in many respects, in distinct opposition.
Art
Rodin in Process at the Peabody Essex Museum
Speaking very generally and just of figurative art: sculpture creates a world around itself, and painting creates a world inside itself.
Art
An Exhibition Goes in Search of Victor Hugo's Artistic Libido
PARIS — With Eros Hugo: Between Modesty and Excess, the Maison Victor Hugo offers up a fervent paradox: how can an author lead a bawdy and risqué lifestyle while handling the subject of sex prudishly in his virtuosic writings?
In Brief
"David" and "Venus de Milo" Action Figures Put Art History in Motion
Have you ever wondered what Michelangelo's "David" would look like if it were kneeling and giving a thumbs up, like a wide receiver who just scored a touchdown?
Art
Rare 1915 Films Show Rodin, Monet, Renoir, and Degas in Their Twilight Years
In 1915, with the newly innovated film camera, a young Russian-born, French actor named Sacha Guitry captured some of France's greatest artists and authors.
News
Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: thieves boost a bronze Rodin in Copenhagen, man is busted for trying to sell a fake van Gogh, and two works go missing from Slovakia's Andy Warhol museum.