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 ...

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 ...

There is a formidable father figure hovering over the powerful double exhibition of broadly-defined Abstract Expression at the Tampa Museum of Art, just not the one some seemed to be expecting.

Her work influenced Jackson Pollock. So, why isn’t Janet Sobel a household name like him? A new exhibit in Houston aims to remedy that. Houston Matters meets her grandson, who lives here, and learns ...

September Twenty-third, 1980, Lee Krasner, ink, crayon and collage on lithographic paper, Richard P. Friedman and Cindy Lou Wakefield Collection Overcoming obstacles such as sexism and discrimination ...

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 ...

Po Kim at 417 Lafayette (all images courtesy Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Gallery) There is a curious oasis on the eighth floor of 417 Lafayette Street in Greenwich Village that was once the residence ...

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 ...

Women artists have been fighting continually for their rights. For equality, for gallery representation and institutional ...

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 ...