Word: rodins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Washington, a huge retrospective reveals the real Rodin...
...scale, scope, curatorial intelligence and the intensity of the vision it discloses, "Rodin Rediscovered"-an exhibition of some 400 sculptures, drawings and photographs that opened last week at Washington's National Gallery-may be the most impressive tribute an American museum has ever offered to a 19th century sculptor. Drawn from collections all over the world, but mainly from the Musée Rodin in Paris, the show is to sculpture, in effect, what the Museum of Modern Art's 1977 Cézanne exhibition was to painting: a means of making us see afresh the processes...
...this devout and extensive work of disentanglement, the main credit must go to the show's organizer, Stanford Art Historian Albert E. Elsen, the dean of Rodin scholars; but it is also the work of a formidable team of French and American art historians who contributed essays to the catalogue, including Ruth Butler (on Rodin's context as a working artist in the 19th century salons) and Kirk Varnedoe (on Rodin's drawings and the role of photography in his work). For Elsen, this show is the summa of 20 years' engagement with its subject...
Surrounded in his office on the fifth floor of the Seagram Building on Manhattan's Park Avenue by Rodin sculptures and a tapestry by Miro, Edgar Bronfman, 51, the wavy-haired chairman of Seagram Co. Ltd., exudes a certain air of contentment. He should. Last year Bronfman sold the Texas Pacific Oil Co., which Seagram had bought in 1963 for $256 million, to the Sun Co., for $2.3 billion. Bronfman's nest egg has since grown to a stunning $3 billion through shrewd asset management, and he is now leisurely looking for a place to invest the money...
Looking like a cross between Hagar the Horrible and Rodin's The Thinker for his role in the film Conan the Barbarian, Bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger is clearly no dumbbell. He will be working out alongside Sandahl Bergman, who steamed up movie theaters in Bob Fosse's All That Jazz. Conan, about to go into production in Spain, is based on the 1930s sword-and-sorcery tales of Robert E. Howard. Schwarzenegger's main cause for thoughtful concern is the film's villain, Thulsa Doom, played by James Earl Jones, the ominous voice of Star Wars...