Tag Archives: Willem de Kooning

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Features

De Kooning Paints a Picture

The former ARTnews editor traces the “Hamlet-like history” of an Abstract Expressionist classic Read More

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Reviews

Driven to Abstraction?

Willem de Kooning at the Museum of Modern Art Read More

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Trends

Say It with Flowers—or Gourds, Goats, Fur Cups, or Fried Eggs

The interpretation of sexual symbols in art is everywhere. But what we view as erotic often tells us less about the artists than it does about our own sensibilities. Read More

Matisse’s first show at MoMA opened its third season, in 1931. ©THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK
Features

How Our Critics Spoke

The good, the bad, the splendid, the beautiful, and “a negation of everything under the sun and the sun itself”. Read More

Profiles

De Kooning’s Deception

Photographing the painter at work was a tricky proposition. Read More