The Museum of Modern Art’s Abstract Expressionist New York: The Big Picture, an ambitious exhibition that (kinda) rethinks the standard narrative of Abstract Expressionism (aka AbEx), has been open ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Cold War wasn't fought only with spies, missiles and nuclear weapons — even paintings became part of the struggle. The ...

Abstract Expressionism is one of art history’s most well-worn stories. After the Renaissance and Impressionism, maybe the most well-worn. Jackson Pollock. Willem and Elaine de Kooning. Lee Krasner.

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 ...

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, ...

Early paintings by Robert Motherwell hang at the Museum of Modern Art's exhibit, 'Abstract Expressionist New York." (Carolina Miranda/WNYC) 'Shinnecock Canal,' 1957, by Grace Hartigan -- one of the ...