Today, October 26th, sees the anniversary of the birth of a true abstract pioneer, the Swedish artist Hilma Af Klint. Producing her...

As my regular readers are aware, I am largely self-taught, and proud of it. I painted from a very young age, encouraged by my mother who...

Back in the late 1970's an incandescent recording of Alexander Scriabin's Fourth Piano Sonata was released by the Russian pianist Andrei...