The key to Kandinsky? Listen to his paintings

The Centre Pompidou and the Philharmonie de Paris join forces to pair the pioneer of abstract art with the music that ...

In Paris, a Kandinsky Exhibition That Lets You Hear the Paintings

A new exhibition in Paris helps visitors step into the modernist master’s sonically inspired world. In 1896, the 30-year-old ...
Artnet

As Abstract Pioneer Wassily Kandinsky Was Breaking Down Barriers in Painting, He Was Also Writing Experimental Poetry. Read It Here

Blue, Blue got up, got up and fell. Sharp, Thin whistled and shoved, but didn’t get through. From every corner came a humming. FatBrown got stuck—it seemed for all eternity. It seemed. It seemed. You ...
Artnet

Kandinsky’s Roving Creative Journey Comes to Life in Amsterdam

“Form itself, even if completely abstract,” Wassily Kandinsky once said, “has its own inner sound.” By that measure, the new exhibition at the H’ART Museum must be a symphony. At “Kandinsky,” the ...

Kandinsky: where can you see the abstract painter's works in Paris?

It is largely thanks to her that the Centre Pompidou has a significant collection of works by Wassily Kandinsky. The Paris museum houses and exhibits various paintings, drawings, engravings, and ...
The New Yorker

Choose Your Own Kandinsky Adventure at the Guggenheim

Choose a direction for your perusal of “Vasily Kandinsky: Around the Circle,” a retrospective that lines the upper three-fifths of the Guggenheim Museum’s ramp with some eighty paintings, drawings, ...
Los Angeles Times

Kandinsky retrospective is natural for Guggenheim

Reporting from New York — “Kandinsky,” the big exhibition of 95 oil paintings made between 1902 and 1942 by the visionary pioneer of abstraction, Vasily Kandinsky, is a show that looks like it was ...
CNN

Kandinsky painting recovered by Holocaust victims’ heirs sets auction record at nearly $45 million

A painting by Russian Modernist Wassily Kandinsky that once belonged to victims of the Nazi Holocaust, has sold for £37.2 million ($44.55 million) at Sotheby’s in London. Part of the auction house’s ...
Fox News

Kandinsky painting that spent decades in Dutch museum sells at auction for $44.9 million

A painting by Wassily Kandinsky that spent decades in a Dutch museum after its Jewish owner was murdered in the Holocaust has sold at auction for $44.9 million. "Murnau mit Kirche II" ("Murnau with ...
Hyperallergic

Rethinking Kandinsky

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Kandinsky On A Plate: Art-Inspired Salad Just Tastes Better

We eat first with our eyes. When strawberries are perfectly red, they seem to taste sweeter. When chicken is painted blue, it's disturbing. The ancient Romans understood that, and certainly today's ...