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Bloch Building Filled with Sculptures of Rodin [VIDEO]

An image of Rodin's "The Thinker" on the wall of the Bloch Building. Visitors will be able to see the image along Rockhill Road at night.
photos: Laura Spencer/KCUR
An image of Rodin's "The Thinker" on the wall of the Bloch Building. Visitors will be able to see the image along Rockhill Road at night.

"Rodin: Sculptures from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation" displays 40 bronze sculptures in the Bloch Lobby of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

By Laura Spencer

Kansas City, Mo. – The exhibition, only the second to be installed in the lobby, is divided into three sections: figures related to the "Gates of Hell," a massive bronze portal; commissioned historical and cultural heroes; and a series of hands.

Featured speakers at an opening exhibition breakfast included Director & CEO Juli?n Zugazagoitia and Nicole Myers, associate curator of European Painting and Sculpture.

"Rodin: Sculptures from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation"
October 1, 2011 - June 3, 2012
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

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Laura Spencer is staff writer/editor at the Kansas City Public Library and a former arts reporter at KCUR.
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