How ‘Irascible’ Abstract Expressionists Stared Down the Met—and Changed Art History
A new book focuses on a standoff between key artists and one of the U.S.'s top museums.
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Cynthia Navaretta, Publisher Behind Key Feminist Art Journal, Has Died at 97
Women Artist News became one of the most important publications of its kind.
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Jackson Pollock’s Largest Painting Is Touring the World, and Its Mysteries Are Coming to Light
To date, 'Mural' has visited 13 museums and traveled about 20,000 miles.
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“Painters of the East End” Explored How the Beaches of Long Island Influenced Abstract Expressionism
"Painters of the East End" brought together a selection of paintings and drawings by eleven artists, all of them women, who spent time living and working on Long Island, highlighting the resonances…
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Grace and Will: An Excerpt from Mary Gabriel’s New Book ‘Ninth Street Women’ on Painter Grace Hartigan and Art Market Changes in the 1950s
The book, published by Little Brown, recounts female artists' unbending ambitions and the evolution of an economy in which their work has been undervalued.
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No Show: The Sprawling Ab Ex Survey That Wasn’t
Beginning in early 2000, Walter Hopps (a leading curator of 20th-century art and founding director of the Menil Collection in Houston) and art historian William C. Agee began kicking around ideas for…
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Fall Preview: Museum Shows and Biennials Around the World
A concise guide for notable exhibitions through December
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True to Life: Elaine de Kooning on Stuart Davis, in 1957
With the Whitney Museum opening a massive, 100-work Stuart Davis retrospective, we turn back to the April 1957 issue of ARTnews, in which Elaine de Kooning reviewed a different retrospective, at the W…
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Knoedler Gallery Settles Three Lawsuits From Forgery Scandal
The Art Newspaper reports that Knoedler Gallery, in conjunction with former director Ann Friedman, gallery owner Michael Hammer, and Hammer's company 8-31 Holdings, have "quietly" settled three…
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Van Doren Waxter Gallery Now Represents the Hedda Sterne Foundation
The Upper East Side's Van Doren Waxter Gallery now represents the Hedda Sterne Foundation, and will display a selection of Sterne’s works from April 2 to May 1. Sterne, who died in 2011 at the age of…
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