Hilma af Klint was a painter and mystic—a woman for whom the earthly plane and existing artistic expression evidently did not suffice. Hers were “big strides,” playwright Kate Scelsa told me, in ...

They may be two of the best-known names in early 20th century modern art, but Piet Mondrian and Hilma af Klint never actually met. Decades after their deaths in 1944, they are enjoying a posthumous ...

The artist’s large abstract canvases are well worth seeing in person, with their vivid, startling and nuanced colors and subjects that are the stuff of dreams. An installation view of “Hilma af Klint” ...

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 ...

Erik af Klint, the artist’s great-grandnephew and foundation board chair, said the gallery’s representation would lead to the “commercialization” of her work. Installation view of Hilma af Klint: ...

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It is noon on a Tuesday, and I am sitting in a cocktail bar. But instead of a Negroni on my table, there is a VR headset. The reason for this anomaly dates back to 1915, when the Swedish artist Hilma ...

The vortex of adulation around transfigured Hilma af Klint, the resurrected savior of modernist painting, continues to swirl through the stratosphere of our little world of art, clouding her in the ...

"Abstract paintings were being produced even before Kandinsky. Completely independently from each other, Georgiana Houghton (1814-1884) in England, Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) in Sweden and Emma Kunz ...

The pop diva is one of several to hold court at Madison Square Garden this month, and the West Indian American Day Parade and other celebrations return. By Erik Piepenburg At the Museum of Modern Art, ...