Installation view of Antony Gormley, Critical Mass II (1995) at the Musée Rodin, Paris (all photos Anthony Majanlahti/Hyperallergic) PARIS — Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) was the great giant of ...
In August 1927, crews moved the statue of Rodin's "The Thinker" from the former Art Museum to its present home at the "new" Detroit Institute of Arts. The Detroit News Michigan Marvels: Bay City's ...
Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Rodin’s was, of course, a revolutionary approach to making sculpture, one that anticipated the assemblage ...
But until he was 40 years old, Rodin earned his living assisting other artists. As a younger man he had twice failed to gain admission to Paris’s fine-art academy, while the state salons, still ...