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 ...

Pete Hamill is the author of numerous books, including "Diego Rivera." Harry N. Abrams/Columbus Museum of Art: 272 pp., $60 This is a marvelous, passionate and irritating book that proposes to ...

The abstract expressionists did not hurt for hubris. "It is one of the great stories of all time," the painter Clyfford Still declared, describing the work of the New York painters surrounding him, ...

Art historians love to resurrect under-appreciated artists, especially when the shroud of racial bias is lifted. Over the past few years, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts has assumed an ...

Expressionism was a movement early in the 20th Century that had its clearest manifestations in two artistic groups from Germany. But the formal traits of expressionism also appeared in other countries ...

The conventional story of American visual art generally pegs postwar Abstract Expressionism, in the hands of Jackson Pollack, Willem de Kooning, etc., as the first truly mature manifestation of a ...

But for decades, American Expressionism has been denigrated, if not ignored. Postwar conservative art critics and politicians derided the work as art by “Reds and fellow travelers.” Contemporary ...

If you happen to be strolling past the Johnson Museum on a rainy and blustery day, take shelter in the Museum’s new gallery for contemporary art. Works by five of the most important artists in ...

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