The Russian painter Kasimir Malevich (1878-1935) founded suprematism and is credited with having painted the first geometric, totally nonrepresentational picture. The son of a foreman in a sugar factory, Kasimir Malevich was born on Feb. 23, 1878, in...

Oksana Bulgakowa, ed. Kazimir Malevich: The White Rectangle; Writings on Film. Berlin and San Francisco: Potemkin Press, 2002. 252 pp., 20 b/w ills. $25 paper. Margarita Tupitsyn, Malevich and Film. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. 192 pp., 20 color ills., 80...

Imagine that Spain disowned the works of Pablo Picasso, France refused to recognize Paul Ce'zanne and the United States banned the display of paintings by Jackson Pollock. Such has been the fate of Kazimir Malevich, one of the fathers of modern art, in his...

From Russia — with qualms.Works by Matisse, Van Gogh, Cezanne and other masterpieces from Russian museums are finally hanging in a London gallery after a last-minute legal change eased Moscow's fears that the paintings could be seized in legal action if they traveled to Britain.The...

The Geometry of Hope: Latin Abstract Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, an exhibition at N.Y.U.’s Grey Art Gallery, poses two interesting questions: What characteristics identify art as provincial? And what does hope have to do with making art? Organized by the Blanton...