Like many art movements—among them Impressionism, Fauvism, and Cubism—Orphism wasn’t named by the artists creating the work, but rather by a critic. The poet Guillaume Apollinaire first saw Robert ...

Sonia Delaunay: Living Art at Bard Graduate Center is a gently curated exhibition that treats its subject with reverence. It opens with a timeline and examples of Delaunay’s personal branding such as ...

Fashion. Textiles. Interior design. Printmaking. Mosaics. Painting. Sonia Delaunay did it all. An artist and entrepreneur born in 1885, she defied the expectations of her era to forge a successful ...

Sonia Delaunay was born to a poor Ukrainian family in 1885, survived two World Wars, and died wealthy in Paris in 1979. In between, she co-founded the French avant-garde movement Orphism with her ...

A steamer trunk worth of clothing and textiles by the French-Ukrainian artist reveals the sartorial origins of abstraction. By Walker Mimms If Wassily Kandinsky bent the visible world to the whims of ...