To come up with the Kandinsky soundtrack, Martin, Lampe and pianist Mikhail Rudy, who served as the show’s musical adviser, ...

The Russian lawyer-turned-painter sought to simplify art through a deconstructive approach to painting and by visualizing his inner workings. Wassily Kandinsky ...

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

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 ...

Before devoting himself completely to art, Kandinsky complied with his parents’ wishes and studied law at Moscow State University. He graduated in 1893 and taught law at the university for three years ...

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Today is the birthday of Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky, a man whose abstract art made history in the 20th century and whose name continues to stump English speakers long after his death. The ...

Wassily Kandinsky, born in Moscow, Russia in 1866, is celebrated as a pioneer of abstract art. Originally trained in law and economics, he began studying painting in earnest at the age of 30, moving ...

A Nazi-looted Wassily Kandinsky painting could soon fetch $45 million at Sotheby’s London on March 1. Last fall, the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, restituted the work to the heirs of ...

It’s a shame that the two preeminent stars of abstract art—Hilma af Klint and Wassily Kandinsky—never met in person. At one point, Swedish-born af Klint and Russian-born Kandinsky were miles apart ...

Wassily Kandinsky, best known as the pioneer of abstract painting, kept a trove of sketchbooks between 1889 and 1935. Twelve of these sketchbooks are now the focus of a new release from No More Rulers ...

A new exhibition in Paris helps visitors step into the modernist master’s sonically inspired world. By A.J. Goldmann Visitors of Frieze Week have an opportunity to see the exhibition that presents the ...