This week, art historian Mary Gabriel joins Ben Davis to discuss Lee Krasner (and Jackson Pollock) as a blockbuster show ...

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 ...

When young Dutch artist Willem de Kooning stowed away on a US-bound cargo ship in 1926, little did he know he would become ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The abstract expressionists did not hurt for hubris. "It is one of the ...

“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 ...

Hope springs from the lavish layers of quick, thick, colorful oil brushstrokes, circles embodying a deep regard for eternal life that’s interconnected with a passion for Native American culture and an ...

The Ojibwe artist was active in New York's midcentury art scene and embraced by fellow Abstract Expressionists, yet he’s rarely in canonical histories today. The late painter was influenced by ...