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‘Life! Life! Life!’: Reviving a Globe-Trotting Sculptor of the Gilded Age

An exhibition at the Museo del Novecento in Milan is dedicated to reviving the legacy of sculptor Paolo Troubetzkoy. The show, titled "Paolo Troubetzkoy: The Sculptor of the Belle Époque," features over 100 works, including portraits of famous figures like Leo Tolstoy and George Bernard Shaw, aiming to reintroduce this once-celebrated artist to a contemporary audience.

The City That Inspired Rothko (It’s Not New York)

A major exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, "Mark Rothko: The Artist's Museum," presents a significant collection of the artist's monumental works, including the rarely seen Harvard Murals and the Seagram Murals. The show focuses on Rothko's late-career shift towards creating immersive, chapel-like environments intended for deep, meditative viewing.