The paradigm of the “overlooked female artist” is both a cliché and a truth. We all know the art market is unceasingly hungry, and previously sidelined women artists are the perfect food. But that ...

Art museums in Los Angeles currently overflow with first-rate exhibitions. An unusually strong array of well-organized solo and thematic shows covering a variety of art has made the first months of ...

George Morrison (Grand Portage Chippewa), "The Red Sky" (1955), oil on canvas; Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota Duluth (© George Morrison Estate, unless otherwise noted) The landmark ...

Abstract art became “officially” art only in 1952, when Harold Rosenberg wrote a seminal essay published by ARTnews magazine titled “The American Action Painters.” Before that, since after the World ...

“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 ...

Abstract Expressionist New York: The Big Picture,” which is currently occupying MoMA’s fourth floor, is composed entirely of art drawn from the museum’s colossal permanent collection (much of which ...

When it comes to Abstract Expressionism, formal qualities such as brushwork, color relationships, and composition take precedence over representation. Gesture itself — which can encompass the sweep or ...

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 ...