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 ...

The Musée Rodin is one of my very favorite museums in Paris, and one I keep coming back to again and again. Part of that is ...

Auguste Rodin gave trainer Aidan O’Brien his 400th Group or Grade One triumph on the Flat with a barnstorming victory in the Prince of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot. The colt has earned his reputation ...

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 ...

Auguste Rodin’s The Thinker is one of the most recognizable sculptures in the world. This episode explores the origins of the ...

Painter Anselm Keifer has made a series of works in response to his kindred spirit, Auguste Rodin. They're on display at the Barnes, the only U.S. venue for the exhibition. On the 100th anniversary of ...

Auguste Rodin is considered the father of modern sculpture. The French artist was bold, progressive, and successful during his lifetime. He questioned ideas of classical beauty, as well as what ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Nearly all Breeders’ Cups have their share of memorable moments, and 2023 was no exception. For many observers, the gritty, come-from-behind victory by Cody’s Wish in the Dirt ...

Possibly no single force has so deeply influenced modern sculpture as Auguste Rodin. A bold statement, surely, but even more remarkable when applied to someone raised with all the earmarks of failure.

“The chin evolved largely by accident and not through direct selection, but as an evolutionary byproduct resulting from direct selection on other parts of the skull,” University of Buffalo biological ...