By Michael Kimmelman and Lila Barth Scott Burton, one of America’s leading sculptors, entrusted his estate to the museum in 1989, when he was sick with AIDS, to ensure his place in art history.
Echoing the commemorations of the bicentenary of the death of the Emperor, Napoleon, the musée de l’Armée is presenting, for the first time in its history, a contemporary art tour at the Invalides.
“When Earth’s Last Picture Is Painted” is Rudyard Kipling’s famous poem dealing with mortality and how artistic creation transcends our human lives. It holds a special place in the heart ...