Featuring sculptures and drawings, this thematic exhibition highlights the drama and experimentation that have established Rodin as one of the greatest sculptors of all time.Originally titled Metamorphoses: In Rodin's Studio, the exhibition is organized by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, in collaboration with the Musée Rodin, Paris.

This exhibition explores the mysterious visual world of late 19th-century symbolism, a cultural movement that formed an important bridge between impressionism and modernism and which sought to evoke ideas subjectively—through color, form, and composition—rather than objectively representing worldly appearances. The title of the show is inspired by Les Fleurs du Mal (1857), an influential collection of poems by Charles Baudelaire, thus alluding to the literary antecedents of the movement.

“Visiting Masterpieces: Pairing Picasso” offers a unique opportunity to study the artist’s range of techniques and styles, with themes including the stylistic transformation of the human figure, variation of a single subject across works, and emulation of revered artistic forebears.

Photo: Head of a Woman, Portrait of Marie Thérèse Walter (1934. Oil on canvas. Isabelle and Scott Black Collection)

In a ceremony on the Kingston campus on May 19th, the 23-year-old Arielle De Souza received the prestigious French Consulate in Boston Excellence Award, which is given every year to a New England college student who has travelled to France as part of their university studies and has been particularly active in talking about their experience studying in France and encouraging their fellow classmates to go as well. De Souza was chosen from seven nominees, and she is the first woman selected in the award’s three-year history. 

Albertine, the French Embassy’s reading room and bookshop in New York, is now offering a selection of high quality French language ebooks via its website. The vast majority of these ebooks are available in the U.S. for the first time.