By the ‘50s, Abstract Expressionism was bound up with the concept of individual freedom: its canvases were understood as expressions of the subjective inner lives of the artists who painted them.

The bold artistic movement that made New York the center of the art world in the 1950s gets the exposure it deserves when the Nassau County Museum of Art hosts AB-EX/RE-CON: Abstract Expressionism ...

Although it’s still more than eight months away, Women of Abstract Expressionism promises to be groundbreaking. I eagerly emailed with the exhibition’s organizer, Gwen Chanzit, who serves as ...

I n the late 1940s and early ’50s, when Abstract Expressionism first erupted, life wasn’t easy for those who adopted it as their practice. Red-baiting Congress members denounced it as a ...

Mary Abbott, an abstract expressionist of the 1940s and ’50s whose energetic, brightly colored paintings influenced artists such as Willem de Kooning, even as critics and galleries focused ...

The event served to officially unveil the works on canvas known as abstract expressionism, a style developed in the 1940s and ’50s as paintings in which brush strokes take shape through the ...

The Abstract Expressionists emerged from obscurity in the late 1940s to establish New York as the centre of the art world. But were they pawns of US spies in the Cold War?