MANHATTAN (CN) — More than a decade after the man who stole the art went to jail, Italian art crime investigators recovered five emblematic works by German-born American abstract expressionist painter ...

While today, abstraction is a widely deployed form of creative expression, this wasn’t always the case. At the turn of the 20th century, and evolving over the course of the next several decades, ...

“When I begin to paint, it’s like leaping suddenly into deep waters, and I never know beforehand whether I will be able to swim,” the German Expressionist artist Gabriele Münter remarked in a 1958 ...

George Grosz, “Attack (Attentat),” 1915, lithograph in black on laid paper. (National Gallery of Art/Purchased as the gift of Richard A. Simms and Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund/Estate of George ...

In a sleepy German town, a major new museum has opened. For its master architect and his patron, the project is more than a shrine to Abstract Expressionism. It may be the defining work of a lifetime.

“You can talk about light, scale, depth, beauty, color, shape, form, perspective,” the great mid-century abstract painter Helen Frankenthaler once said, “but it’s no formula of those things that make ...

DENVER — The story goes like this. It is 1950. Virginia-born painter Judith Godwin learns that dancer and choreographer Martha Graham will be in the region and all Godwin can think about is her desire ...

FOR half a century art critics have undertaken to address not a sophisticated minority like the readers of literary magazines, but the mass of unbelievers to whom twentieth-century art is a mystery or ...