MANHATTAN (CN) — More than a decade after the man who stole the art went to jail, Italian art crime investigators recovered five emblematic works by German-born American abstract expressionist painter ...

While today, abstraction is a widely deployed form of creative expression, this wasn’t always the case. At the turn of the 20th century, and evolving over the course of the next several decades, ...

“When I begin to paint, it’s like leaping suddenly into deep waters, and I never know beforehand whether I will be able to swim,” the German Expressionist artist Gabriele Münter remarked in a 1958 ...

In a sleepy German town, a major new museum has opened. For its master architect and his patron, the project is more than a shrine to Abstract Expressionism. It may be the defining work of a lifetime.

“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 ...

DENVER — The story goes like this. It is 1950. Virginia-born painter Judith Godwin learns that dancer and choreographer Martha Graham will be in the region and all Godwin can think about is her desire ...

The kid’s a pint-sized Picasso. Mikail Akar is just 7-years-old but already his work is selling for tens of thousands of dollars and being compared to the most legendary expressionist painters. Born ...

João Florêncio receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. He is affiliated with the Labour Party. A new exhibition, Abstract Expressionism, opens at London’s Royal Academy this ...