A rare 1922 painting representing the height of the artist鈥檚 Neo-Plastic aesthetic will lead Leonard & Louise Riggio: Collected Works at Christie鈥檚 New York this May.
But first, masterworks from the collection of Leonard Riggio and Louise Riggio will embark on a global tour, hopping from London to Hong Kong in March and then heading to Paris, Dubai and Los Angeles in April before returning to New York.
Do artists and scientists see the same thing in the shape of trees? As a scientist who studies branching patterns in living things, I鈥檓 starting to think so.
This ambitious survey made up of more than 100 works situates the major starting point in the history of geometric abstraction in Kandinsky鈥檚 book Point and Line to Plane (1926).
At the beginning of the year, the Fondation Beyeler presents the thematic exhibition 鈥淣orthern Lights鈥,focussing on around 70 landscape paintings by artists from the Nordic Countries and Canada created between 1880 and 1930, among them key works by Hilma af Klint and Edvard Munch
鈥淥rphism in Paris, 1910-1930鈥 struggles to convincingly support the thesis that it was a cohesive movement but does serve as a poignant reminder that art once sought to engage more deeply with the world it inhabited.