Claudia Barbieri Childs

2 months ago | theartnewspaper.com | Claudia Barbieri Childs |Brian Childs

A large-scale study of the stories behind these buildings, their architecture and collections

Feb 19, 2025 | theartnewspaper.com | Claudia Barbieri Childs |Anna Brady

After a lively bidding battle Camille Claudel’s recently rediscovered bronze known as L’Age Mûr (The Age of Maturity), sold in France on Sunday for €3.1m (€3.7m with fees), more than 50% above its pre-sale estimate. The sculpture was found last year in a long-uninhabited Paris flat. The nude group depicts a man and two women, one old and haggard drawing him forward, the other young, kneeling behind him, begging him to turn back.

Feb 18, 2025 | theartnewspaper.com | Claudia Barbieri Childs |Hannah McGivern |Gareth Harris

CoAfter a lively bidding battle Camille Claudel sculpture discovered in abandoned Paris apartment recently rediscovered bronze known as L’Age Mûr (The Age of Maturity), sold in France on Sunday for €3.7m, more than 50% above its pre-sale estimate. The sculpture was found last year in a long-uninhabited Paris flat. The nude group depicts a man and two women, one old and haggard drawing him forward, the other young, kneeling behind him, begging him to turn back.

Feb 17, 2025 | theartnewspaper.com | Vincent Noce |Claudia Barbieri Childs |Sarah Belmont

The prosecutor has requested suspended prison sentences up to 15 months and fines up to €150,000 against the companies and executives responsible for works in the Château de Versailles that led to the lead poisoning of restoration workers. The trial, which took place last week before the Versailles criminal court, was the first ever case heard of lead poisoning in the cultural sector.

Feb 6, 2025 | theartnewspaper.com | Claudia Barbieri Childs |Gareth Harris |José Da Silva |J. S. Marcus |J.S. Marcus

In 1969, Anselm Kiefer, a 24-year-old art student, confronted the amnesia of West Germany’s post-war identity. He did this through a series of performances and photo montages featuring caricatural self-portraits in which he performed the banned straight-armed Nazi salute. Costumed, wearing his father’s military coat or cross-dressing, in his studio or in dialogue with historically charged landscapes and monuments, he created images simultaneously absurd, defiant, dissociated and forlorn.