Jay DeFeo barely took any photos of her hefty one-ton painting, The Rose (1958-66), during the seven years she spent layering it with inches of impasto and chiseling it. She may have forever regretted ...

Aaron Siskind led two lives, one as a seriously committed social documentary photographer and one as an Abstract Expressionist. He did well in both lives, but it is in the latter involvement alongside ...

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 ...

Photography’s uncanny ability to represent the world had such a profound impact on society in the early 20th century that its role in non-representative art has been overlooked. “Shape of Light”, Tate ...

The 20th-century modern art scene in the United States has been well-documented in exhibits. Less well-documented is how the latest trends in modern art trickled down into Latin America and changed ...

This coming fall London’s Royal Academy of Arts will put on the UK’s first survey dedicated to Abstract Expressionism in almost six decades. The much anticipated exhibition is curated by an authority ...

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 ...

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 ...