in art and they visit the Black Mountain College where Ruth tells Ira about Kandinski who came along and broke all the laws of the discipline. In Season 4 of Netflix's Stranger Things, his 1903 colour woodblock "The Singer" can be seen in Nancy Wheeler's bedroom. This specific season has strong themes about the power of music. A picture-book biography entitled The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky's Abstract Art was published in 2014. Its illustrations by Mary GrandPre earned it a 2015 Caldecott Honor. His grandson was musicology professor and writer Aleksey Ivanovich Kandinsky (1918–2000), whose career was both focused on and centred in Russia. Exhibitions The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will stage the exhibition Vasily Kandinsky: Around the Circle from October 8, 2021 to September 5, 2022, in conjunction with a series of solo exhibitions featuring the work of contemporary artists Etel Adnan, Jennie C. Jones, and Cecilia Vicuña. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum held a major retrospective of Kandinsky's work from 2009 to 2010, called Kandinsky. In 2017, a selection of Kandinsky's work was on view at the Guggenheim, "Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim". The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., held an exhibit from June 11 to September 4, 2011, called ″Kandinsky and the Harmony of Silence,″ featuring ″Painting with White Border″ and its preparatory studies. Kandinskij. L'opera 1900–1940, , Rovigo, Italy. Nazi-looted art In July 2001 Jen Lissitzky, the son of artist El Lissitzky, filed a restitution claim against the Beyeler Foundation in Basel, Switzerland for Kandinsky's "Improvisation No. 10". A settlement was reached in 2002. In 2013 the Lewenstein family filed a claim for the restitution of Kandinsky's Painting with Houses held by the Stedelijk Museum. In 2020, a committee established by the Dutch minister of culture found fault with the behaviour of the Restitution Committee, causing a scandal where two of its members, including its chairman, resigned. Later that year, a court in Amsterdam ruled that the Stedelijk Museum could retain the painting from the Jewish Lewenstein collection, despite the Nazi theft. However, in August 2021 the Amsterdam City Council decided to return the painting to the Lewenstein family. In 2017 Robert Colin Lewenstein, Francesca Manuela Davis and Elsa Hannchen Guidotti filed suit against Bayerische Landesbank ("BLB") for the restitution of Kandinsky's Das Bunte Leben. See also Bibliothèque Kandinsky Goethe's Theory of Colours Kandinsky and Theosophy Kandinsky Prize List of Russian