Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York, by Alexander Nemerov. Penguin Press. 288 pages. $28. Imagine, if you will, that it’s the year 1990, and you are flipping through the magazine Art ...

Christian Levett I’ve always collected things fanatically since I was tiny, coins and military medals. On family holidays, ...

Visitors will see work by Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, Helen Frankenthaler, Camille Pissarro, Édouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, Paul Klee, William Merritt Chase, Amedeo Modigliani, Robert Delaunay ...

Through painting, drawing, animation and writing, abstract artist Amy Sillman has woven together an art practice that is engaged in both material matters and discursive thinking. On Friday ...

abstract expressionism ‘Duality’: A tale of a mother and her son "Duality" is an artistic collaboration between Salma Zakia Bristy and her son, Mashrafi Aveen.

Grace Hartigan in Raleigh, NC, Mary Abbott in New York, and Mildred Thompson in Miami bring Abstract Expressionism back to center stage.

Helen Mirren had some harsh words for her fellow Emmy contenders: “None of us are beauties.” The actress, 79, expressed the sentiment no less than three times while participating in The ...

When it comes to American abstract expressionist painter Helen Frankenthaler, ... Helen Frankenthaler, Blue Jay, 1963. Toledo Museum of Art. Gift of The Woodward Foundation.

An electric violin, a tap genius, art world legends, holograms and more will feature in dance shows to see in Washington and around the country.

Whitten was an artist who looked relentlessly forward, and his origins explain why. He was born in Bessemer, Alabama, a coal town, in 1939, at the height of Jim Crow.

On May 30, the sun will set over Forest Park, and a new world—that of Hamlet, reimagined—will take over Shakespeare Glen. “People are filing in. They’re eating, drinking, talking,” Tom Ridgely, the ...