The Secret Life of Mondrian
Unseen letters, gay lovers, a 30-minute kiss … a new biography pulls back the curtain on the elusive Dutch painter
The Afterlife of the Bauhaus
An exhibition in Weimar, Germany, untangles the contradictory legacy of the modernist movement amid the rise of Nazism
Brancusi’s Magnum Opus
Bronze, wood, marble, stone … the Centre Pompidou, in Paris, presents the sculptor’s largest retrospective since 1995
Shock and Awe
The provocative, World War II–era paintings of Ben Shahn are on view in a sweeping retrospective
Christmas Eve at the Alberses
The director of the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation recalls re-creating the Berlin holidays of Anni’s youth—complete with beluga caviar and rock lobster—Stateside
