Asian-American artists engaged deeply and creatively with Abstract Expressionism, counter to historical views of the movement as a New York monolith. Installation view, Abstract Expressionism: Looking ...

The standard story of 1960s arts is one of Abstract Expressionism leading into Pop Art and minimalism. A Whitney show ...

See how Abstract Expressionism shifted the center of the art world from Paris to New York In post World War II New York City, a new group of artists including Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Willem de ...

Literally a hidden treasure at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the latest offering from their prints and drawings department, titled “American Abstract Expressionism: Works on Paper 1940s-1960s,” ...

Left: Ernest Briggs, “Untitled” (1959), oil on canvas, 82 x 74 inches; Center: Ernest Briggs, “Untitled” (1958), oil on canvas, 30 x 25 inches; Right: Ernest Briggs, “Untitled” (1958), oil on canvas, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The museum took a pass on major Modern art movements through much of the last century. But a renewed Modern department has ...

On Ninth Street Women: Five Painters and the Movement that Changed Modern Art, by Mary Gabriel. Jackson Pollock was dead. Drunk, as usual, he’d overturned his Oldsmobile in the summer of 1956, ...

Britain's Tate Modern art museum on Thursday unveiled one of the most significant gifts it has received in years – a masterpiece by an American abstract expressionist that hung for years on a bedroom ...

Some say there were just two rules governing the Club, a group of leading Abstract Expressionists in mid-century New York City. One was technical: Any two founding members could block a new applicant ...