The painting above was made in 1945 by self-taught artist Janet Sobel; it’s called Milky Way. Sobel was a Ukrainian-born a ...

A study from the University of Oregon has found that when it comes to recreating Pollock's famous drip paintings, children produce work that more closely resembles the abstract expressionist master ...

The bold artistic movement that made New York the center of the art world in the 1950s gets the exposure it deserves when the Nassau County Museum of Art hosts AB-EX/RE-CON: Abstract Expressionism ...

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, ...

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 ...

“You can talk about light, scale, depth, beauty, color, shape, form, perspective,” the great mid-century abstract painter Helen Frankenthaler once said, “but it’s no formula of those things that make ...

Any painting created nearly 80 years ago would most certainly have something of a storied past. But the history of Mark Rothko’s Untitled (Yellow, Orange, Yellow, Light Orange), painted in 1955, is ...

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 first room of “Epic Abstraction: Pollock to Herrera,” a wishfully canon-expanding show of painting and sculpture from the past eight decades, at the Metropolitan Museum, affects like a mighty ...