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Relative of Hilma af Klint Condemns NFTs of Artist’s Paintings

Avatar photo by Jasmine Liu November 15, 2022November 21, 2022

Hedvig Ersman, the granddaughter of Hilma af Klint’s nephew, said the sale of NFTs on Pharrell Williams’s GODA platform “goes against the will” of the artist.

Posted inArt

What if Van Gogh Could Paint Your Hometown?

Avatar photo by Jasmine Liu October 19, 2022October 19, 2022

Neither Picasso nor Hilma af Klint ever visited the Faroe Islands, but in a new exhibition, a museum uses AI to imagine how these artists would have painted their archipelago.

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A Rare Series of Watercolors by Hilma af Klint Is on View in Manhattan

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia November 9, 2021November 9, 2021

Tree of Knowledge, a suite of eight paintings by the beloved artist and spiritualist, is up at David Zwirner Gallery.

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Hilma af Klint Gets an Exquisite Seven-Volume Catalogue Raisonné

Avatar photo by Bridget Quinn August 25, 2021August 25, 2021

The latest volume of af Klint’s catalogue raisonné reveals the artist exploring the spiritual world with quasi-scientific deliberation.

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How Hilma af Klint Was Written Out of History

by Elizabeth Horkley June 10, 2020November 5, 2020

The new documentary Beyond the Visible is more of a detective story than a straightforward biography, investigating the erasure of an important figure in abstract art.

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Hilma af Klint Has Arrived in the Hudson Valley

by Hakim Bishara March 6, 2020March 7, 2020

From botanical sketches to art inspired by af Klint’s spiritual practice, lesser-known works by the Swedish artist arrived at the Lightforms Art Center.

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Hilma af Klint Breaks Records at the Guggenheim Museum

by Hakim Bishara April 22, 2019April 23, 2019

The survey of the late Swedish abstract painter has drawn 600,000 visitors, increased museum memberships, and broke another record in catalogue sales.

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Hilma af Klint Inspires an Artist to Take a Closer Look

Avatar photo by Sarah Glidden April 19, 2019June 7, 2022

She was an artist who believed in progress, in the evolution of humanity.

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Spiritualist Drawings that Open Portals to Other Dimensions

Avatar photo by Maria Cynkier April 11, 2019April 17, 2019

Often compared to the work of Hilma af Klint, dozens of rarely-seen drawings by the late Swiss healer and Spiritualist Emma Kunz are on view at the Serpentine Gallery.

Posted inArt

A Dozen Memorable Exhibitions from 2018

by John Yau December 30, 2018January 19, 2019

Just because most museums in America are still asleep at the wheel, it doesn’t mean all is lost.

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Hilma af Klint, Outlier for the Ages

by John Yau November 25, 2018August 25, 2021

Hilma af Klint reminds us that institutionally approved narratives generally function as touchstones for conformists and the weak-kneed.

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Hilma af Klint, the Spiritualist Painter Who Pioneered Abstract Art

Avatar photo by Zachary Small October 23, 2018August 25, 2021

Witchy and prescient, Hilma af Klint’s paintings from the early 1900s curiously combine spiritualism with an interest in evolutionary biology.

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