When German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche declared in 1882 that “Gott ist tot” — God is dead — he could not have known that he was codifying a social and cultural transformation that a generation ...

On Ninth Street Women: Five Painters and the Movement that Changed Modern Art, by Mary Gabriel. Jackson Pollock was dead. Drunk, as usual, he’d overturned his Oldsmobile in the summer of 1956, ...

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Abstract Expressionism is a storied movement continually re-told at blockbuster museums: We think we know it so well. The story, however, is still wrong. There are no women in it. The most recent show ...

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, ...

Art museums in Los Angeles currently overflow with first-rate exhibitions. An unusually strong array of well-organized solo and thematic shows covering a variety of art has made the first months of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chadd Scott covers the intersection of art and travel. Abstract Expressionism holds the distinction of being the first original ...

Brooklyn artist Joseph Meloy put aside his job applications to wear a creepy kangaroo mask. That and a massive sign advertising his latest gallery show. “New York City is a wonderful place to be as an ...

The fact is, that both finish and impetuosity, specific minuteness and large abstraction, may be signs of passion, or of its reverse; may result from affection or indifference, intellect or dulness . ...