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 ...

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 ...

When it comes to Abstract Expressionism, formal qualities such as brushwork, color relationships, and composition take precedence over representation. Gesture itself — which can encompass the sweep or ...

In London, a new exhibition highlights how the movement emerged across the world during the mid-twentieth century. By Charlotte Jansen Reporting from London When the landmark Abstract Expressionism ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

João Florêncio receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. He is affiliated with the Labour Party. A new exhibition, Abstract Expressionism, opens at London’s Royal Academy this ...