The show revisits the contributions of 32 visionary artists who helped expand the language of Abstract Expressionism beyond ...

Art museums in Los Angeles currently overflow with first-rate exhibitions. An unusually strong array of well-organized solo and thematic shows covering a variety of art has made the first months of ...

The paradigm of the “overlooked female artist” is both a cliché and a truth. We all know the art market is unceasingly hungry, and previously sidelined women artists are the perfect food. But that ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

When it comes to Abstract Expressionism, formal qualities such as brushwork, color relationships, and composition take precedence over representation. Gesture itself — which can encompass the sweep or ...

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 ...

In our fortnightly Picture This column, museum curator Jan Summerfield looks at an oil painting by Colin Shewring.