Luis Ernesto Zavala’s insightful short film, accompanying the Museum of Latin American Art’s equally solid solo exhibition, “Victor Hugo Zayas: The River Paintings,” presents Zayas casually walking ...

The French poet, novels and dramatist Victor Hugo is now best known for Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. But his friends, family and even acclaimed artists of his time—Vincent Van Gogh ...

Foraging for the future: If much of his imagery feels rooted in the early 19th century Romantic era in which Victor Hugo grew up, the treatment often looks forward to late 19th century symbolism and ...

Victor Hugo's name has deservedly been attached to the cry for social justice. Indeed, with such socially charged books such as Les Misérables (1863) and The Last Day of a Condemned Man (1829), the ...

A colossal toadstool towers above a drab landscape, at once ominous and lonely, its red cap the only hint of colour in a sea of brown, as an almost human face peeks from its stem. It would look at ...

Victor Hugo was "the French equivalent of Shakespeare and Dickens", said Jonathan Jones in The Guardian. We've all absorbed the myths he created – "Les Misérables", "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" – ...

*Considering that this is a French poet, novelist, playwright just messing around in amateur fashion way back in the 1850s, those artworks are really out-there. They look like Surrealist abstract ...

— Off from one of those busy, narrow streets near the church of St. Sulpice, in Paris, opens a wide green court, where tall chestnut-trees shake out their rich green tops close to the high windows of ...

This splendid one-person show at the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach has to be one of the greatest revelations of the year in Southern California art. Los Angeles artist Victor Hugo Zayas ...