Installation view, Abstract Expressionism: Looking East from the Far West, Honolulu Museum of Art HONOLULU, HI — The vast region traditionally referred to in the West as “the East,” which includes ...

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 ...

Left: Ernest Briggs, “Untitled” (1959), oil on canvas, 82 x 74 inches; Center: Ernest Briggs, “Untitled” (1958), oil on canvas, 30 x 25 inches; Right: Ernest Briggs, “Untitled” (1958), oil on canvas, ...

Literally a hidden treasure at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the latest offering from their prints and drawings department, titled “American Abstract Expressionism: Works on Paper 1940s-1960s,” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When the term Expressionism is thrown about in museums and galleries, the work of early 20th century European artists typically comes to mind. Despite the tremendous contributions American ...

Years ago, when Fritz Scholder was a grad student at the UA, he had a reputation as a bad-boy artist. “There were a bunch of wild people over there,” Scholder remembered fondly in the summer of 2002, ...

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 ...

When leftist Philip Evergood’s big show opened in a Manhattan gallery last week, artists and critics alike flocked to get a look at it. There were also a few capitalist connoisseurs—checkbooks in hand ...