THE ART OF LIVING

21 August 2009  |  Week in Review  |  Fine Art

August 15 – August 21

This week: Centre Pompidou celebrates Wassily Kandinsky’s oeuvre; Van Gogh provides an eternal taste of summer; the India Art Summit highlights the diversity of Delhi; and Shirin Neshat imagines a world without men.

  • Wassily Kandinsky at the Centre Pompidou The triumph of this exhibition is to showcase Kandinsky’s works not narrowly as a progress to abstraction but as variations on a theme as the artist responded to shifting political, social, personal realities, especially life as a triple exile. From FT.com
  • Van Gogh in Summer A comprehensive new exhibition in Basel surveys the Dutch master’s best landscapes—from the flowerbeds of Holland to the wheat fields of Provence. Paul Laster from the Daily Beast reviews. From TheDailyBeast.com
  • When in... Delhi Visitors to the India Art Summit will find a sprawling city with history that goes back millennia. When in Delhi, be sure to take advantage of the range of experiences the city has to offer, from heritage sites to hip cafés to the feast of sights and sounds that enliven the storied streets. From ARTINFO.com
  • Shirin Neshat: An Interview Since 2003, Iranian-born Shirin Neshat has been engaged in an ambitious two-part video/film project based on (and titled after) the 1989 novel Women Without Men by the Iranian writer Shahrnush Parsipur. From ArtinAmericaMagazine.com