Artnet

A Kandinsky Painting Sold During World War II Should Be Returned to the Heirs of Its Jewish Owners, an Advisory Panel Ruled

An advisory panel for the German government has ruled that a painting by Wassily Kandinsky should be returned to the heirs of the Jewish family that owned it before it was auctioned off during World ...
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 (© ...
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 ...
NPR

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 ...
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 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 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, ...
Smithsonian Magazine

You Can Listen to Kandinsky’s Vibrant Paintings at This New Exhibition in Paris

Wassily Kandinsky considered his most important paintings to be the ten colorful, complex canvases in his Compositions series, which he completed in 1939. That he named this important series after a ...
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 ...
The New York Times

Kandinsky Cut Ties With Russia. So Did This Museum.

The first major exhibition at H’Art, a former satellite of the Hermitage, explores how war and nationalism shaped the painter’s career. By Nina Siegal Reporting from Amsterdam When the Hermitage ...
NPR

Kandinsky painting that was auctioned during WWII is returned to Jewish heirs

A prized painting by Russian master Wassily Kandinsky that was sold under duress during World War II has been returned to the descendants of its former Jewish owners. The oil painting, Bild mit ...