In the aftermath of World War II, abstract expressionism burst onto the art scene as a defiant rejection of traditional forms and conventions. Artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...

Her work influenced Jackson Pollock. So, why isn’t Janet Sobel a household name like him? A new exhibit in Houston aims to remedy that. Houston Matters meets her grandson, who lives here, and learns ...

DENVER — The paintings in Women of Abstract Expressionism at the Denver Art Museum are rich with emotion, monumental in scale, and totally original. Trine Bumiller: At Rhode Island School of Design I ...

Po Kim at 417 Lafayette (all images courtesy Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Gallery) There is a curious oasis on the eighth floor of 417 Lafayette Street in Greenwich Village that was once the residence ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... “Women of Abstract Expressionism” is a major event for the Denver Art Museum: A single exhibit that attempts to influence the way we think about art history ...

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, ...

The Museum of Modern Art doesn’t mess around with its vaunted permanent collection and core narrative. It may sometimes festoon the atrium or exterior with video projections or set live performers ...

Students will learn about several Abstract Expressionists and identify the ways in which they use color, line and form to express themselves. Objectives: Students ...