Mondrian “made marks at the edges, then very slowly painted these lines. They look precise but they are based on intuition,” said Ulf Kuster, who organized the exhibition. For the Dutch artist, ...
History is usually written by the victors. History of art is usually written by the curators. The museums, the specialists, ...
Piet Mondrian never intended to go to London. The dream was always New York, that modern place of vertical steel, fashion, and the jazz the Dutchman adored dancing to. Besides, American collectors had ...
How did the work of a conceptually difficult abstract painter from the early 20th century come to be plastered on contemporary hotel décor, Yves Saint Laurent dresses, furniture, and jigsaw puzzles?
The Dutch painter Piet Mondrian left an unmistakable mark on the world of art -- which is why a city in his homeland is paying him tribute. Mark Phillips takes us on a walking tour: Walk along any ...
WHETHER they know it or not, the architect, the layout artist, the sign painter, and even the counter girl who wraps a candy box asymmetrically with a gay ribbon all owe a debt to a lone Dutchman ...
This Christmas, we have collaborated with internationally renowned East-London artist Martin Richman to design a bespoke abstract Christmas tree which will be displayed in the hotel’s lobby, set to be ...
Sometime in the 2000s, I became hooked on an online video game called “Pac-Mondrian.” It was like “Pac-Man” — you gobbled dots while running from ghosts — but replaced that game’s grid labyrinth with ...
A canvas by Piet Mondrian fetched $50.6 million at a Christie’s sale in New York on Thursday, an auction record for the late modern artist who is famous for his paintings of rectilinear patterns ...
On a wintry morning last month, a yellow taxi carrying several MoMA curators passed through the archway of Cypress Hills Cemetery, a two-hundred-and-twenty-five-acre burial ground situated partly in ...