Wassily Kandinsky, “Kleine Welten VI” (1922) (all images courtesy Springfield Museums) In 1895, after deciding to turn from a career in academic law to art-making, Wassily Kandinsky was working as the ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 (© ...

Across all three auction houses, the November marquee sales topped $2.2 billion—a welcome jolt of confidence for a market trying to regain its footing in advance of the Miami fairs. The major ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...