A new show argues that the Abstract Expressionist power couple could never have made their groundbreaking works without each other’s support ...

The hyper-masculine post-war mythology that’s often tied to Abstract Expressionism has long been recognized as a problematic historical narrative because it elides many of the movement’s equally ...

In the aftermath of World War II, abstract expressionism burst onto the art scene as a defiant rejection of traditional forms and conventions. Artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...

She had to settle for the kitchen as her studio but Lee Krasner finally gets her share of the spotlight at the Metropolitan ...

ON GÉRÔME, BOUGUEREAU, INGRES, AND “THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOKS ON,” NOTES FROM A JOURNAL The situation is quite different now. Abstract Expressionism, no longer the dominant style, is just one of ...

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Installation view, Abstract Expressionism: Looking East from the Far West, Honolulu Museum of Art HONOLULU, HI — The vast region traditionally referred to in the West as “the East,” which includes ...

This coming fall London’s Royal Academy of Arts will put on the UK’s first survey dedicated to Abstract Expressionism in almost six decades. The much anticipated exhibition is curated by an authority ...

Abstract Expressionism is a storied movement continually re-told at blockbuster museums: We think we know it so well. The story, however, is still wrong. There are no women in it. The most recent show ...

“You can talk about light, scale, depth, beauty, color, shape, form, perspective,” the great mid-century abstract painter Helen Frankenthaler once said, “but it’s no formula of those things that make ...