Do you ever wonder what "The Thinker" is thinking? Yes, that "Thinker" — the staunchly serious bronze sculpture that is prominently perched in front of the Detroit Institute of Arts while life passes ...

If you were French sculptor Auguste Rodin, how would you mark your own gravestone? When the artist’s wife, Rose Beuret, died in 1917, he had a bronze cast of his celebrated Thinker placed on her grave ...

How should one live? This existential question shook the young poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926). Amid dark days plagued by financial hardship and the departure of his poetic muse, Rilke desperately ...