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 ...

Maysa studied philosophy and English at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, earning her Bachelor of Science in 2024. Throughout her academic career, she often applied her areas of study to film and ...

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 ...

George Morrison (Grand Portage Chippewa), "The Red Sky" (1955), oil on canvas; Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota Duluth (© George Morrison Estate, unless otherwise noted) The landmark ...

The abstract expressionists did not hurt for hubris. "It is one of the great stories of all time," the painter Clyfford Still declared, describing the work of the New York painters surrounding him, ...

When German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche declared in 1882 that “Gott ist tot” — God is dead — he could not have known that he was codifying a social and cultural transformation that a generation ...

In the late 1940s and early ’50s, when Abstract Expressionism first erupted, life wasn’t easy for those who adopted it as their practice. Red-baiting Congress members denounced it as a communist plot.

No real scene ever did look like a scene of the stage. That is true in greater or less degree whether the scene be a forest, waving like a set of green banners behind the proscenium, or a street in ...

Art historians typically view the serene French impressionists and the stormy German expressionists as polar opposites, but a new exhibition begs to differ, arguing that the movements have much in ...