American modern and contemporary art — selected works, exhibitions, and provenance expertise.https://hardwarearts.com/https://hardwarearts.com/blog/black-square-and-the-zero-of-form/https://hardwarearts.com/blog/black-square-and-the-zero-of-form/How Malevich's 1915 painting proposed not an image but a beginning — the degree zero from which Suprematism built a new pictorial world.Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://hardwarearts.com/blog/the-monument-and-the-machine/https://hardwarearts.com/blog/the-monument-and-the-machine/Constructivism asked artists to stop making pictures and start making things. Tatlin's Tower and Rodchenko's workshop turned the studio into a laboratory.Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://hardwarearts.com/blog/cubo-futurism-a-russian-collision/https://hardwarearts.com/blog/cubo-futurism-a-russian-collision/Russia did not import Cubism so much as collide with it — fusing Picasso's fractured planes with Italian Futurism's love of speed, noise, and the modern street.Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://hardwarearts.com/blog/amazons-of-the-avant-garde/https://hardwarearts.com/blog/amazons-of-the-avant-garde/Rozanova, Exter, Popova, Stepanova, Udaltsova — the women who were not assistants to the Russian avant-garde but among its principal architects.Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://hardwarearts.com/blog/ivan-puni-and-the-everyday-object/https://hardwarearts.com/blog/ivan-puni-and-the-everyday-object/Painter, relief-maker, and host of the legendary 0,10 Exhibition, Ivan Puni turned signboards, plates, and stray numbers into the raw material of a new art.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT