NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Nearly 100 works by Vasily Kandinsky will be exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum when it launches a retrospective of the abstract artist on Friday as part of its 50th ...

If you've been looking for an excuse to visit the Guggenheim and you're an abstract art fan, here it is! The famous Fifth Avenue museum is exhibiting Wassily Kandinsky's work. Kandinsky was a ...

Editor’s note: This is the final “From the Studio” with Assistant Arts Editor Kathaleen Roberts, who is retiring this month. Aaron Karp’s work dazzles. Jewel-like shapes tumble across layer after ...

Nothing is more remarkable about the art of the last quarter-century than the diminished role played by abstraction in defining the course of contemporary artistic thought. Where abstraction had not ...

Photograph by David Heald © Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York. Rebay’s influence on Guggenheim and her interest of abstract art is apparent from the ...

Here’s a new name to add to the pantheon of pioneering, “inconvenient women”: Hilma af Klint, a Swedish painter born in 1862, whose work is now on show at the Guggenheim Museum. A highly educated ...

Knotted, Torn, Scattered: Sculpture after Abstract Expressionism features sculptural work in the Guggenheim collection from the 1960s and ’70s by six artists who helped redefine the legacy of postwar ...

Vasily Kandinsky’s abstract paintings feel right at home in the recessed bays along the spiraling, skylit ramp of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, where Kandinsky’s geometries and ...

A woman gazes at two of Hilma af Klint’s abstract works in the Guggenheim’s Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future (all images by author) Her story sounds almost too good to be true. Historians now ...