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, ...
A painting traveled from San Francisco across mountains, valleys, rivers and plains to arrive at SUNY Plattsburgh. The six-foot untitled painting by Harry Cohen takes you back in time and away from ...
As a youngster, I adored art class. I savored the opportunity to fashion absurd objects out of papier-mâché, construct miniature furniture out of old toilet paper tubes and try my hand at the messy ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
Hope springs from the lavish layers of quick, thick, colorful oil brushstrokes, circles embodying a deep regard for eternal life that’s interconnected with a passion for Native American culture and an ...
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 ...
You know Cooperstown, New York, as the home of Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Johnny Bench and the greats of baseball history who take up residence at the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Joining them in this ...
Jackson Pollock (1912–1956) was the founder of the Abstract Expressionist Movement in art. This was the first truly American artform and its development had worldwide repercussions. Whereas up to the ...
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 Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth will host the first major retrospective in more than 25 years of one of America’s best-known abstract expressionist painters, Robert Motherwell. The museum has more ...
Jackson Pollock (1912–1956) was the founder of the Abstract Expressionist Movement in art. This was the first truly American artform and its development had worldwide repercussions. Whereas up to the ...
Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning: The most recognizable names of post-war abstract painting are male. In recent years, curators have expanded that perspective to include their talented wives Lee ...