The street where Thomas—the first Black woman to have a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art—lived for most of her ...

Isolated in the rural American Southwest and navigating the harsh realities of poverty in the 1930s, a small group of artists made sublime abstract art that sought to intuitively connect viewers ...

"There's an intellectual part, but then there's this totally emotional part." For Raymond L. Haywood, finding balance in his ...

One of the points brought out by the exhibition of “Abstract Painting in America” held at the Whitney Museum last spring was the fact that between 1915 and 1935 a surprising number of American ...

In the latter years of World War II, the New York art scene started coalescing around a group of artists including Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, visionaries who would develop a daring new ...

The incredible story of how America's CIA used the art of Abstract Expressionism as a weapon during its Cold War fight ...

FOR half a century art critics have undertaken to address not a sophisticated minority like the readers of literary magazines, but the mass of unbelievers to whom twentieth-century art is a ...

The 79-year-old German art collector Reinhard Ernst finds himself similarly lost for words when encountering an abstract painting, but the speechlessness stems from an entirely different source.