The Hammer Museum's exhibition of Victor Hugo's drawings will make one wonder why the 'Les Mis' author wasn't better known for his art. French poet and writer Victor Hugo, drawn by R. Boyden (1865 – ...

Here are some of artnet News’s highlights of museum shows opening across the United States as we kick off a new season: The South Florida-based artist Mira Lehr’s exhibition uses the Greek myth of ...

Victor Hugo, one of the greatest French writers of the 19th century, is well known for his 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Less known is the fact that his vast talents overflowed from the ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, is presenting an exhibition on mid-nineteenth-century French artists who looked beyond realistic subject matter. With its Third Resonance, GAM ...

The Victor Hugo House in Paris is hosting a special thematic exhibition centered on this subject, titled Hugo and Architecture: From Stone to Pen. Running from June 11 to November 22, 2026, visitors ...

FeatureDuring his long exile in Guernsey, France's most famous writer obsessively arranged every corner of his home. Ornate yet strikingly modern, his decorative vision is now the focus of an ...