The Myth of the Lone Genius
On the artist Gabriele Münter and freeing her from the shadow of Wassily Kandinsky.
On the artist Gabriele Münter and freeing her from the shadow of Wassily Kandinsky.
For my new monthly column for The Paris Review, I will travel across Europe—from Copenhagen to Dublin to Berlin to London—searching out essential artworks and exhibitions that speak to a wider cultural context, such as our desire for wanderlust or the complexities of artistic romances. In this first segment, I explore the complicated burden placed upon the lovers, close friends, and heirs of famous artists after they die.
A new Picasso exhibition, curated by one of his granddaughters, celebrates one of the only women he didn’t harm for his art: his daughter Maya.