CLEVELAND, Ohio — I stood near The Thinker one day a while back. Nope, not the damaged statue outside the Cleveland Museum of Art in University Circle. I was at the version in Copenhagen, artwork that ...
Auguste Rodin brought Impressionism to stone with iconic statues like “The Thinker.” With statues like his iconic “Thinker,” Rodin made ordinary people seem noble, his rough surfaces brought ...
How should one live? This existential question shook the young poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926). Amid dark days plagued by financial hardship and the departure of his poetic muse, Rilke desperately ...
The Gibbes Museum of Art’s Alex Rich with a maquette of Rodin’s "Gates of Hell." Credit: Photo by Emily Plank; used with permission. In a coup for the Gibbes Museum of Art, patrons can expect to cross ...