These are the takeaways of “Women of Abstract Expressionism,” an indispensable show at the Denver Art Museum (DAM), where it will remain through Sept. 25, before traveling to Charlotte, N.C ...

Abstract expressionism was America's great aesthetic movement—or so said the artists. A new MoMA show may (unwittingly) make us reconsider that claim.

The Colombian artist Fanny Sanín in front of her painting “Oil No. 4” (1968), one of dozens of Abstract Expressionist works on display at the “Action, Gesture, Paint” exhibition at London ...

Abstract expressionism was a new form of art that broke away from traditional technique and subject. ... Action painting could get a bit messy, with artists flinging paint about left, ...

Abstract Expressionism’s forgotten women and their international contemporaries emerge from the shadows. ... • Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-1970, ...

Abstract expressionism is all about action, risk, channeling the subconscious and capturing the emotion of the moment. Hats off to this unexpected cabal of Krasners, Frankenthalers and Mitchells ...

Grace Hartigan, Mary Abbott and Mildred Thompson created stunning Abstract Expressionist paintings and a great deal more during their long careers. See their work in three separate exhibitions ...

Denver Art Museum curator Gwen Chanzit on her new show, and why so many talented women have been relegated to the footnotes of Abstract Expressionism.

This new approach to painting has already found its voice in the writing of Robert Coates who coins the now art historical term Abstract Expressionism in the frequently cited 1946 New Yorker ...

“Action/Abstraction Redefined” features 36 artists and over 50 works of art from IAIA’s permanent collection across the movements of abstract expressionism, color field and hard-edge ...

Abstract art became “officially” art only in 1952, when Harold Rosenberg wrote a seminal essay published by ARTnews magazine titled “The American Action Painters.” Before that, since after the World ...