Forbes

A Spectacular Joan Mitchell Retrospective Reveals An Abstract Expressionist Who Effortlessly Mixed Lyric Poetry And Figure Skating

Early in her career, Joan Mitchell was angered by a reviewer who compared the contours of her Abstract Expressionist paintings to the marks made by a figure skater on ice. Art was meant to liberate ...
Forbes

Pace Displays Paintings, Sculptures, Photos Of Abstract Expressionist Artist Richard Pousette-Dart

An exhibition of works by Richard Pousette-Dart, a member of the first generation of American Abstract Expressionist painters, is being shown through today at one of Pace’s galleries in Manhattan. The ...
Observer

Why People Still Get Worked Up About Jasper Johns’s ‘Flag’ Painting

“MoMA was worried that the flag would be seen as a complicated gesture inside of America at that time, that people would be confused as to what Johns was doing as either a patriotic act or its ...
Hyperallergic

'Women of Abstract Expressionism’ Challenges the Canon But Is Only the Beginning

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 ...
Hyperallergic

Finally, an Exhibition Devoted to the Women of Abstract Expressionism

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 ...
Smithsonian Magazine

You’ve Seen Jackson Pollock’s Dizzying Drip Paintings. But His Wife, Lee Krasner, Was Also a Major Player in the Abstract Expressionist Movement

In 1942, when Jackson Pollock was still an emerging artist, he displayed some of his work at a group exhibition in New York City. One of the other painters in the show, fellow Abstract Expressionist ...
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LACMA Receives 130 Austrian Expressionist Artworks From the Otto Kallir Family, Including its First Klimt

The Otto Kallir family gifted more than 130 Austrian Expressionist works to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). The gift will add the first paintings by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and ...
Artnet

A New Show Gives a Long-Overlooked Abstract Expressionist Her Due

The women of Abstract Expressionism are rising from obscurity in a big way. But, until this spring, one foundational West Coast figure had yet to receive her due. Through May 7, Van Doren Waxter in ...
New York Magazine

The Old Is New Again

Abstract Expressionist New York: The Big Picture,” which is currently occupying MoMA’s fourth floor, is composed entirely of art drawn from the museum’s colossal permanent collection (much of which ...

Beloved artist Danny Simmons has transitioned, leaving a profound legacy behind

Danny Simmons Jr., known for his Neo-African abstract expressionist art and poetry, has died. He was 72. The Simmons family announced his passing via social media June 15, expressing ...
MercoPress

Record art sales at Christie’s, US$ 1,1bn in three hours; US expressionist Pollard painting sold for US$ 181 million

A painting by US Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock sold for a record US$181.2 million (€156.2 million) with fees, at Christie’s auction house in New York this week, alongside other ...