Good Thinking: How Rodin Ensured The Financial Future Of His Paris Museum
The Rodin Museum in Paris is selling sculptures to pay the bills — and that's exactly as the artist intended. When he died in 1917, Rodin left the museum plaster casts for just this purpose.
by Rebecca Rosman
Aug 09, 2020
2 minutes
Museums around the world are struggling because of the coronavirus: New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is projecting $100 million in losses this year, and even France's publicly funded Louvre has lost 40 million euros following a four-month closure.
in the southwest corner of Paris has a unique economic model to keep it
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