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 ...
EPHRAIM - The Hardy Gallery features large-scale, contemporary abstract paintings in its fourth and final exhibit of the season when "Surfaces" opens with an opening reception scheduled to take place ...
Her work influenced Jackson Pollock. So, why isn’t Janet Sobel a household name like him? A new exhibit in Houston aims to remedy that. Houston Matters meets her grandson, who lives here, and learns ...
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 ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... “Women of Abstract Expressionism” is a major event for the Denver Art Museum: A single exhibit that attempts to influence the way we think about art history ...
Po Kim at 417 Lafayette (all images courtesy Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Gallery) There is a curious oasis on the eighth floor of 417 Lafayette Street in Greenwich Village that was once the residence ...
Artistic styles exist only in retrospect. While many of their defining characteristics are formulated in manifestos by pioneering artists, a style can’t be fully understood until it has become a thing ...
NEW YORK — In 1949, the avant-garde American sculptor Philip Pavia declared, "The first half of the century belonged to Paris. The next half century will be ours." He was referring to a loose ...
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 ...