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‘It’s a hostile takeover’: Hilma af Klint’s family fight ‘plundering’ deal for her art

Relatives say involving gallerist David Zwirner would lead to ‘commercialisation’ of Swedish painter’s work

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Witches, shamans and grims: why the occult is on the rise in the art world

Dreams, surreal visions and pagan rituals play a central part in works now filling galleries and in high demand around the world

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What did the critics who trashed Georgia O’Keeffe have in common? See if you can guess

Over the years, female artists like Georgia O’Keeffe and Hilma af Klint have received scathing reviews. When will women stop being seen as easy targets?

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Hilma af Klint & Piet Mondrian: Forms of Life review

The premise for this new exhibition is a “weird” one indeed, said Laura Freeman in The Times. On the face of it, the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) and the Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) have little in common: he was a cosmopolitan modernist, she a visionary mystic; he…

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Hilma af Klint & Piet Mondrian: Forms of Life review – a thrillingly odd couple

Though they shared a fascination with spiritualism and with abstract form, clear contrasts emerge in this controversial pairing of painters

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Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian review – Swedish mystic is no match for the great modernist

Connecting the two through their shared religious interests misunderstands the Dutch artist – and does Af Klint no favours

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Hilma af Klint & Piet Mondrian: Forms of Life at Tate Modern review - fascinating and ambitious

You can feel the tectonic plates of art history shifting under your feet

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Ouija board wonder: how Hilma af Klint’s occult dabblings made her an outcast

She was a Swedish mystic who believed angels guided her work. Why has this overlooked pioneer now been paired with Piet Mondrian, a jazz-mad Dutchman rebelling against his dad’s religion? The answer lies in the spirit world

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Spiritual visions, robot stags and Auerbach through a glass darkly – the week in art

Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian unite, Mat Collishaw dives into the digital and a modern master considers himself in his 90s – all in your weekly dispatch

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Hilma af Klint, a painter at the forefront of abstraction

Can an exhibition of work by a little-known Swedish artist change our understanding of avant-garde art? The history of early 20th-century art seems to be sufficiently set that the spectral appearance of an artist on the periphery of Europe wouldn’t change it in any way. However, the phenomenon of Hilma…

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Hilma af Klint: A Biography by Julia Voss review – portrait of the painter as a mystic

The Swedish abstract artist who conversed with the dead is described as a woman years ahead of her time in this scholarly, sympathetic study

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Hilma review – handsome biopic about mystic Swedish artist

Lasse Hallström explores the tumultuous life of Hilma af Klimt, now recognised as a pioneer of abstract art

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Hilma review – Sweden’s mystical outsider artist gets feelgood biopic

Film candyman Lasse Hallström has delivered a cloying but well performed version of the life of Swedish painter Hilma af Klint

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Hilma af Klint: Swedish mystic hailed as the true pioneer of abstract art

Almost 80 years after her death, a biography will be published this month, Tate Modern plans a 2023 exhibition, and she is the subject of a film, as she is finally recognised as a visionary artist

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Women artists: the belated craze for blockbuster shows is welcome – but it's not enough

The Barbican’s boldly curated exhibiton of abstract expressionist Lee Krasner (1908-1984) – who was routinely referred to as Jackson Pollock’s wife, despite being a well-established artist long before meeting him – transferred to the Guggenheim Bilbao in 2018. Before it opened, a Spanish newspaper invited me to introduce this “little…

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