The major retrospective – the first to be held since Eric Smith’s death in 2017 – includes his earlier religious works, as ...

Miyoko Ito survived an earthquake, incarceration and illness. Her transportive paintings defied ideas about abstract art.

For years after World War II, the type of figurative art that Kinigstein practiced co-existed with abstract expressionism — e.g., the drip paintings of Jackson Pollock or the color field art of ...

Two months before she died, Alma Thomas invited the art critic Eleanor Munro to her red brick house in Washington, D.C.’s ...

By Charlotte Jansen Reporting from London When the landmark Abstract Expressionism show “The New American Painting” arrived at London’s Tate gallery in 1959, it featured work by 17 artists ...

Kristen Woollery, a Black woman, is one such artist. Woollery’s unique and breathtaking abstract art pays homage to her Afro-Trinidadian roots and is heavily influenced by her upbringing in ...

the New York art scene started coalescing around a group of artists including Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, visionaries who would develop a daring new movement known as abstract ...

Sam Gilliam, a Washington artist who helped redefine abstract painting by liberating canvas from its traditional framework and shaking it loose in lavish, paint-spattered folds cascading from ...

Some say there were just two rules governing the Club, a group of leading Abstract Expressionists in mid-century New York ...

“At first glance the irregular shapes and geometric patterns of abstract art could appear difficult for the human brain to interpret. Art exhibitions like this one at the Saatchi Gallery in ...

Two paintings stolen from the Healing Center on St. Claude Avenue have been returned. Artist Carrie Beene said she’s ...