On the centenary of Auguste Rodin’s death, Jacques Doillon delivers a useful educational tool for the armchair traveler too lazy to go to a museum. Or read a book. “Rodin” could also be watched as ...

In the opening scene of French filmmaker Jacques Doillon’s recent biopic Rodin, two studio assistants carry a selection of plaster body parts, seemingly feminine, on a table big enough for a banquet ...

Camille Claudel was a sculptor whose love affair with Rodin was the subject of a 1988 movie starring Isabelle Adjani. Claudel’s later confinement in an insane asylum is the subject of the newest movie ...

A new museum reappraises the prodigious talent of Camille Claudel. A sculptor, and Rodin’s lover, Claudel’s career tragically ended with a 30-year confinement in a psychiatric hospital. WILLIAM COOK ...

Camille Claudel is one of the hidden tragic figures in the history of art. Best known as the lover and protege of Auguste Rodin, Claudel was a fine sculptor in her own right. (She was also the sister ...

The idea of severe French formalist Bruno Dumont taking on a costume biopic, and with a major star in the lead to boot, initially seemed an aberration, perhaps the auteur equivalent of Dylan going ...

A notable similarity marks a subcategory of once woefully under-recognized female artists of the past. Their resolute endurance of trauma is proposed as a primary reason to reassess their work today.

Deep into Rodin, Jacques Doillon's quietly satisfying portrait of the famed French sculptor, a group of stuffy sponsors circles Auguste Rodin's almost completed statue of France's beloved novelist ...

Even people who know nothing about art know the works of Auguste Rodin. The French sculptor who created “The Thinker” and “The Kiss” was born on this day in 1840. Google has created a blue-tinted ...

Even culture vultures will have their senses dulled by this ploddingly didactic two-hour lesson in the life and loves of master sculptor Rodin. On the centenary of Auguste Rodin’s death, Jacques ...