Willem de Kooning is a name recognized worldwide for his impact on the development and growth of Abstract Expressionism in America. However, back in his early days, he was one of a small group of…
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Western art history doesn’t move in a straight line toward improvement. It advances through breaks—moments when artists reject inherited assumptions and redefine what art is for. The visible changes…
Born in the late nineteenth century, Modernism sought to challenge conventional institutions of its time. The late nineteenth century saw a shifting European political structure, with the birth of…
A longtime presence on the San Francisco art scene, Rowland Weinstein founded Weinstein Gallery in 1992. The gallery, which specializes in non-objective and Surrealist art from the pre–World War II…
The exhibition, Painting Without Rules, is not only an immersion into American abstract expressionist Helen Frankenthaler’s work, but it is also an opportunity to see and…
Staging a successful art fair during a time of economic uncertainty and political upheaval is not an enviable position to be in, but art world entrepreneur and accomplished event producer, Rick…
Painting, as an object and practice, has such a long, storied global history. It will never go out of style nor completely disappear from the realm of fine art. That said, aesthetics do move in and…
A celebrated Pop artist in the 1950s and '60s, Marisol faded from the limelight in the 1970s and '80s as her style changed and the art world embraced new movements. When she passed away in 2016 at…
In 2010, the U.S. Post Office released a sheet of commemorative 44-cent stamps honoring 10 Abstract Expressionists. Clyfford Still (1904-1980) was included among the prominent painters. Despite…
“I have never been in a city that gave me the same sense of freedom as Venice,” Peggy Guggenheim wrote, “Venice is not only the city of freedom and fantasy but it is the city of pleasure and…
A career-spanning exhibition of 70 works from 1947 to 2003 on view at The Hall Foundation in Reading Vermont from May 21, 2022, to November 27, 2022
Philip Guston was one of the most courageous and controversial painters to come out of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism. Critics called the 1950s Guston’s “mandarin” (influential) years…
“New York: 1962-1964” is a celebration of the institution hosting it. The Jewish Museum has been a venerable fixture in New York’s cultural firmament for what seems like forever, but six decades ago…
As I edge out of almost-post-pandemic confusion and lethargy, three books have awakened my curiosity and steered it in very different directions, together navigating the treacherous shoals of the…
At New York’s George Adams Gallery, this exhibition creates a visual conversation between influential twentieth-century Bay-Area painter Elmer Bischoff (1916–1991) and contemporary New York-based…
