Broadway Boogie Woogie

A white grid pulses with countless tiny squares of red, yellow, and blue, the colored blocks dancing along the lines like traffic at intersections or the syncopated beat of jazz. Piet Mondrian painted Broadway Boogie Woogie in New York near the end of his life, exhilarated by the city and the music he loved, and let his once-austere grid burst into restless, blinking energy. Now in the Museum of Modern Art, it is his last completed masterpiece - rigorous abstraction set joyfully into motion, the rhythm of a modern metropolis translated into pure, vibrating color.