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 ...
The paradigm of the “overlooked female artist” is both a cliché and a truth. We all know the art market is unceasingly hungry, and previously sidelined women artists are the perfect food. But that ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chadd Scott covers the intersection of art and travel. Abstract Expressionism holds the distinction of being the first original ...
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, ...
Students will learn about several Abstract Expressionists and identify the ways in which they use color, line and form to express themselves. Objectives: Students will be able to understand the ...
Abstract Expressionism is usually treated as a boys-club affair. But it wasn’t, as an exhibition called “Women of Abstract Expressionism” at the Denver Art Museum proves. Not that entry for women was ...
Art museums in Los Angeles currently overflow with first-rate exhibitions. An unusually strong array of well-organized solo and thematic shows covering a variety of art has made the first months of ...
A selection of 79 drawings from the collection recasts the most celebrated decade in American art as less American. By Roberta Smith As exhibitions go, “Degree Zero: Drawing at Midcentury” at the ...