In lieu of a preface -- Triplex nonstop -- The shadow knows -- Through a glass darkly -- Totem and taboo -- "After abstract expressionism" -- ... Its bad name -- De Kooning's doubt "In the early 1950s ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. It was in the Fifties that de Kooning’s commanding reputation became a public phenomenon for the first time. It ...

For fans of Willem de Kooning and abstract expressionism, the exhibition provides a fuller look at an artist who is taking a ...

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 ...

The titans of Abstract Expressionism are on view now at The Royal Academy of Arts in London. It’s a massive show comprising 163 works by 30 painters, sculptors, and photographers, and will likely go ...

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 ...

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 ...