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, ...

The first names that come to mind in Abstract Expressionism—Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and the like—may all be men, but women artists also played a crucial role in the internationally-renown ...

The opening of the Clyfford Still Museum last month has prompted a resurgence of interest in early abstraction in Colorado, from the 1940s to the 1970s. In the beginning, Still was way ahead of even ...

Abstract expressionism is coming to Washburn University. Mulvane Art Museum has opened a new exhibit: "Women of Abstract Expressionism." The exhibition contains paintings and drawings curated from the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

As a youngster, I adored art class. I savored the opportunity to fashion absurd objects out of papier-mâché, construct miniature furniture out of old toilet paper tubes and try my hand at the messy ...

Hope springs from the lavish layers of quick, thick, colorful oil brushstrokes, circles embodying a deep regard for eternal life that’s interconnected with a passion for Native American culture and an ...

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 ...

You know Cooperstown, New York, as the home of Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Johnny Bench and the greats of baseball history who take up residence at the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Joining them in this ...

Jackson Pollock (1912–1956) was the founder of the Abstract Expressionist Movement in art. This was the first truly American artform and its development had worldwide repercussions. Whereas up to the ...

The Museum of Modern Art doesn’t mess around with its vaunted permanent collection and core narrative. It may sometimes festoon the atrium or exterior with video projections or set live performers ...

Although frequently introduced as a student of Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still, abstract expressionist painter Lawrence Calcagno was his own master. He was gay at a time when homosexuality was illegal ...