Wassily Kandinsky

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‘Sheer spectacle’: biggest Kandinsky show to reach Australia opens in Sydney
You may know his Blue Mountain but there’s much more to the impenetrable artist, says the curator of the Art Gallery of NSW show

Sian Cain

03, Nov, 2023 @2:00 PM

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Kandinsky painting stolen by Nazis fetches record £37.2m at auction
London sale comes after descendants of the owners, one of whom was murdered at Auschwitz, were reunited with work found in Dutch museum

Rupert Neate Wealth correspondent

03, Mar, 2023 @11:07 AM

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Hilma af Klint: Swedish mystic hailed as the true pioneer of abstract art
Almost 80 years after her death, a biography will be published this month, Tate Modern plans a 2023 exhibition, and she is the subject of a film, as she is finally recognised as a visionary artist

Dalya Alberge

16, Oct, 2022 @10:00 AM

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Drawings by Cézanne and Klee among works gifted to Courtauld Gallery
Assembled by the late collector Howard Karshan, the ‘revelatory’ collection is hailed as important beyond its size

Mark Brown Arts correspondent

22, Feb, 2021 @2:41 PM

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Circles and Squares by Caroline Maclean review – the Hampstead modernists
From Bauhaus to bohemian love … the intricate lives and art of interwar modernists are captured in this hugely enjoyable and well-plotted book

Kathryn Hughes

25, Apr, 2020 @8:00 AM

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Dutch art panel's ruling against Jewish family criticised as 'step back'
Committee backed museum in battle over Kandinsky painting obtained before Nazis invaded

Daniel Boffey in Brussels

05, Dec, 2018 @5:00 AM

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Berlin recreates Nazi-baiting art exhibition from 1938
Original London show was hailed as protest against Nazi censorship of artists they labelled ‘degenerate’

Kate Connolly in Berlin

05, Oct, 2018 @12:30 PM

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Monet and Matisse to feature in modern garden exhibition
Painting the Modern Garden aims to be popular and scholarly, and will include some spectacular loans, says curator

Mark Brown Arts correspondent

06, Jul, 2015 @7:37 PM

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Rhapsody in blue – or pink? Share your artworks about music
When you hear music, do the sounds evoke images for you? Here’s a chance to connect your senses and share your art inspired by music

Marta Bausells

01, Apr, 2015 @10:38 AM

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Paul Klee exhibition at Tate Modern first major UK show for a decade
Artist numbered all of his 9,500 works, and gallery will follow system to display pieces in order in 17 rooms

Mark Brown, arts correspondent

14, Oct, 2013 @9:55 PM

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Chanel at Paris fashion week: a cool collection inspired by art

Karl Lagerfeld keeps Chanel relevant by weaving the codes – tweed, chain, pearls and quilting – into a new theme, which for spring/summer 2014 is art

Lauren Cochrane

01, Oct, 2013 @1:54 PM

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Paul Klee re-examined in Tate Modern's major autumn exhibition
Show takes chronological view of 'multi-layered, mysterious' Swiss German artist who was a pioneer of abstraction

Charlotte Higgins, chief arts writer

15, Jul, 2013 @3:28 PM

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