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 ...

Mary Abbott was a quintessential uptown girl, replete with an immaculate New York pedigree that made her rise within the postwar downtown art scene and as a pioneer of Abstract Expressionism all 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 paintings in Women of Abstract Expressionism at the Denver Art Museum are rich with emotion, monumental in scale, and totally original. Trine Bumiller: At Rhode Island School of Design I ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... “Women of Abstract Expressionism” is a major event for the Denver Art Museum: A single exhibit that attempts to influence the way we think about art history ...

Through an exhibition, currently on display at the Amarillo Museum of Art, visitors are able to see works in the abstract expressionism style that was significantly impacted by the Texas Panhandle.

A famous 1950 photograph of the painter Jackson Pollock broadcasts an unwitting message. Pollock’s gleaming head commands the viewer’s eye, his brow furrowed in concentration; his body — frozen in ...

Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning: The most recognizable names of post-war abstract painting are male. In recent years, curators have expanded that perspective to include their talented wives Lee ...

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 ...