Willemijn Stokvis, the preeminent art historian on CoBrA, considers it “the last avant-garde movement of the 20th century.” This radical group, active from 1948 to 1951, named itself for the home ...

Authenticity, creative genius, and a whole lot of heart are the essential ingredients vetted beatmaker COBRA brings to the table. After discovering his innate ability to produce during high school, he ...

After learning that he’d been chosen to receive an award from the Guggenheim Foundation in 1964, Danish artist Asger Jorn sent Harry Guggenheim a telegram enjoining his would-be benefactor to “Go to ...

The ‘Spirit of Cobra’ exhibit is now on display at the NSU Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale. You won’t find paintings of snakes, though, in this exhibit! Cobra refers to the Cobra avant-garde art ...

More than seventy years on from its founding, we look back on the brief, furious life of a movement opposed to ‘all forms of split between free thought and the action of painting freely.’ Illustrated ...