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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Michael (Corinne) West, “Green Apple” (1959), oil on canvas, 40 x 87 3/4 inches (all images courtesy of Hollis Taggart, NY, unless otherwise stated) Throughout her life, Michael West (1908-1991) ...