Vasily Kandinsky: Around the Circle

At the Guggenheim in New York, “Vasily Kandinsky: Around the Circle” traces how the artist built an abstract language from geometry, color, and ideas about music and spirituality. The show follows his shifts across early experiments, the Bauhaus years, and later work, reading the circle as both a formal device and a way of organizing thought. In a city with a long history of championing abstraction, the exhibition situates Kandinsky as a reference point rather than a solitary origin. One clear takeaway is how methodical his freedom can look when the studies and structures are kept in view.