Sword Fights on Canvas: Georges Mathieu at Perrotin and Nahmad Contemporary
He anticipated performance art, inspired Gutai, and motivated Europe's response to Abstract Expressionism—but Georges Mathieu has mostly faded from view.
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Joan Mitchell’s Resplendent Paintings: How the Abstract Expressionist Resolved the Unresolvable
A traveling retrospective opens at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art this week.
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Helen Frankenthaler’s Liberated Abstractions Charted a New Path for Painting
She was one of the few women involved in the Abstract Expressionist movement.
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How a Moment of Crisis Led Helen Frankenthaler to Create an Iconic Artwork
"I feel full of hope and resolution these days," the artist wrote before making a breakthrough.
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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…
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