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 ...
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 ...
Hyperallergic

Rethinking Kandinsky

Vasily Kandinsky, "Dominant Curve"(Courbe dominante) (April 1936), oil on canvas, 50 7/8 x 76 1/2 inches. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection 45.989 (© ...
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, ...
The Conversation

Kandinsky at the Art Gallery of New South Wales: a precious gem of a show celebrating the transformative power of art

Sasha Grishin does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
The Art Newspaper

Restituted Kandinsky painting lost in the Holocaust could sell for $45m

A recently restituted painting from early in Wassily Kandinsky’s career is estimated to sell for around $45m when it goes to auction at Sotheby’s London in March, with the proceeds set to be ...
Hyperallergic

On Kandinsky’s Spiritual Relationship With Music

“I feel the air from another planet,” announced a woman bathed in light. Vasily Kandinsky, seated before her in the shadows, was thrilled by this whiff of alien atmosphere. Indeed, he seemed to have ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Kandinsky: AGNSW resumes its Modern Masters series with the biggest exhibition of the Modernist's work ever staged in Australia

Kandinsky was a Russian avant-garde artist, working in the late 19th to mid-20th century. He is best known for his abstract paintings, many of which were inspired by music. It is speculated he had ...
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 ...
The New York Times

Wassily Kandinsky

“Contours of a World” at the Guggenheim Museum includes paintings as well as photography that suggests an alternate path. By Martha Schwendener A new exhibition in Paris helps visitors step into the ...