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 ...

The miniseries, nominated in three categories, prominently features works by Norman Lewis as well as two contemporary artists ...

Abstract Expressionism is a storied movement continually re-told at blockbuster museums: We think we know it so well. The story, however, is still wrong. There are no women in it. The most recent show ...

Jackson Pollock's "Untitled" (c.1944-45) is a drypoint and engraving in black on white wove paper. Inscribed "2nd proof 1967" among other things. (all images via Swann) Tomorrow, Swann auction house ...

Every month, hundreds of galleries add newly available works by thousands of artists to the Artnet Gallery Network—and every week, we shine a spotlight on one artist or exhibition you should know.

For the past five years, New York’s Hollis Taggart gallery has been championing the work of Michael (Corinne) West (1908–1991), a little-known Abstract Expressionist woman painter whose life’s work ...

Contributing Correspondent, "CBS News Sunday Morning" Serena Altschul is a CBS News contributing correspondent and a contributor for "CBS News Sunday Morning." Here's a family puzzle: How do you ...

Abstract Expressionism is one of art history’s most well-worn stories. After the Renaissance and Impressionism, maybe the most well-worn. Jackson Pollock. Willem and Elaine de Kooning. Lee Krasner.

Unlike surrealism and cubism, which came before, the figures at the center of abstract expressionism's birth in the early 1940s were Americans. After a bloody war and in the midst of a rapidly ...