Grace Hartigan, Mary Abbott and Mildred Thompson created stunning Abstract Expressionist paintings and a great deal more during their long careers. See their work in three separate exhibitions.

Hawke’s Bay-based artist Nephi Tupaea at the Aotearoa Art Fair 2025. Photo / Luke Foley-Martin In the second of a series, art experts speak to Ginny Fisher about four modern art movements that have ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

If you haven’t heard of the mid-century Modernist Hyman Bloom (1913–2009), that may be about to change. Ten years after his death, at the age of 96, Bloom is the subject of a major, critically ...

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 ...

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