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Piet Mondrian

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Did a Children’s Cartoon Predict the Upside-Down Mondrian Blooper?

by Sarah Rose Sharp November 7, 2022November 7, 2022

Binky the “art expert” showed us how to correctly hang a Piet Mondrian painting in an episode of Arthur more than two decades ago.

Posted inNews

Oops! Famous Mondrian Painting Hung Upside Down for 75 Years

Avatar photo by Jasmine Liu October 28, 2022October 28, 2022

Despite the finding, Mondrian’s “New York City I” will continue to be displayed as it has always been shown: incorrectly.

Posted inArt

Mondrian Before Abstraction

Avatar photo by Tim Keane January 11, 2020November 12, 2021

Decades before becoming New York’s Pied Piper for nonobjective art, Piet Mondrian had established a reputation in Europe for navigating and remaking realism in his own image.

Posted inArt

The Alternate Modernism of a Modernist Pioneer

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli March 16, 2019March 18, 2019

Lincoln Kirstein’s Modern takes a close look at a period when patriotism was distinct from nationalism, populism did not equal demagoguery, and left-wing radicalism was the coin of the aesthetic realm.

Posted inArt

How Mondrian Inspired Architecture Around the World

by Elena Goukassian February 16, 2018

Adding blocks of primary colors can really put the life back into old houses, shops, birdhouses, construction sites, and even parking garages and garbage sheds.

The exterior of The Hague's City Hall building transformed into "the largest Mondrian painting in the world"
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The Hague’s City Hall Gets a Mondrian Makeover for De Stijl’s Centennial

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton February 3, 2017February 3, 2017

A giant homage to the most iconic Dutch modern art movement debuted today in The Hague.

Posted inBooks

The Geometric Aesthetics of Piet Mondrian’s Studios

Avatar photo by Allison Meier December 25, 2015December 30, 2015

Dutch artist Piet Mondrian lived a nomadic life, caught between the two World Wars, and he transformed each new studio and home into a reflection of his current practice.

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Seven New York City Streets That Should Be Renamed After Artworks

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton July 23, 2015July 27, 2015

Today New York’s City Council voted on a proposal to co-name the block of Stuyvesant Avenue between Lexington Avenue and Quincy Street in Brooklyn “Do the Right Thing Way” after the Spike Lee joint that was filmed there in 1989.

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A Guide to the 20th-Century Artists’ Graves of New York City

Avatar photo by Allison Meier June 26, 2015August 22, 2022

Following our exploration of the artist graves in New York City from the 19th and early 20th centuries, we continue into the 20th and 21st centuries.

Posted inArt

Modernist Male Art Is Timeless, but Not Timely

by Joseph Nechvatal June 23, 2015June 23, 2015

PARIS — According to Sigmund Freud, a key that opens a room in a dream is unmistakably phallic.

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A Universe of Drawing, Rolled into a Single Room

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli April 18, 2015January 19, 2016

Ten years ago, the Morgan Library & Museum decided it was time to bring its collection up to speed on the art of drawing in the 20th and 21st centuries — a daunting task in itself, and even more improbable in the face of a superheated, late-capitalist art market: at the feast of the trophy-eaters, would the museum be forced to content itself with scraps?

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Free at Last! Munch, Mondrian, and Kandinsky Enter the Public Domain

Avatar photo by Allison Meier January 1, 2015January 5, 2015

A new year means new entrants into the public domain for the January 1, 2015, Public Domain Day.

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