Though his ever-fresh geometries make it hard to believe, 2022 marks 150 years since Piet Mondrian’s birth. Though he was already painting in the late 1800s, the Mondrian we know emerged in 1911, when he moved to Paris, dropped the second “a” in his last name, and began developing his Neo-plastic style—a complete rejection of representation. Mondrian spent W.W. I in the Netherlands, where he co-founded the De Stijl movement, then returned to Paris after the war and devoted himself to pure abstraction. The Kunstmuseum den Haag holds the largest number of Mondrians in the world, and focuses this show on Mondrian’s love of music, an art form on which he held strong opinions, and his affinities with other artists. —Elena Clavarino

Travels to: Fondation Beyeler, Basel (June 5 – October 9)