Evoking Rodin’s personal showcase, the Pavillon de l’Alma, this show brings together over 200 works, many of which have never been seen in public before. Centre stage are plaster casts made from Rodin’s clay models which the great sculptor then broke up, remodelled and reassembled into finished works, or stored for future use. Certainly an innovator and perhaps a modernist as Tate Modern argues, the show aims to capture a sense of Rodin’s genius in full creative flow and reminds us of his extraordinary ability to reflect the human condition.

Rodin and the art of ancient Greece at The British Museum, 26th April to 29th July 2018

Wow, this is good! Rodin and the art of ancient Greece at the British Museum is an eye-pleasing, myth-busting, brain-tickling stonker of a show. By focusing on the creative relationship between Rodin and Pheidias, this brilliantly conceived and designed show offers a retrospective of Rodin’s most iconic pieces and a fresh look at the Parthenon statues. But in doing so, it raises questions about authenticity and artifice, production and reproduction, pathos and bathos. Again wow!