Pollock became well known outside of art circles for splashing, pouring and flicking paint onto canvases. Some even considered him the inventor of what became his signature technique. But in 1938, ...

A new exhibit at the Speed Art Museum is shining a spotlight on the women who helped shape one of America's most influential ...

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 ...

DENVER — The paintings in Women of Abstract Expressionism at the Denver Art Museum are rich with emotion, monumental in scale, and totally original. Trine Bumiller: At Rhode Island School of Design I ...

In 2024, art collector Christian Levett opened Europe’s first museum dedicated to women artists in a little town in the south of France. But for those of us who can’t make the trip to the Femmes ...

A feast of modern art from the Toledo Museum of Art has just opened at the Art Gallery of South Australia. Featuring some big names – Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Édouard Manet, Vincent van Gogh, ...

This month, throughout the spring, and continuing all year at museums across America, great women abstract artists of today, and their predecessors, receive a hard earned spotlight. Women have never ...

In London, a new exhibition highlights how the movement emerged across the world during the mid-twentieth century. By Charlotte Jansen Reporting from London See more of our coverage in your search ...

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 ...

Introduction : internationalism and abstract expressionism / Joan Marter -- The birth of abstract expressionism / Helen A. Harrison -- Implications of nationalism for abstract expressionism / Dore ...