Jackson Pollock (1912–1956) was the founder of the Abstract Expressionist Movement in art. This was the first truly American artform and its development had worldwide repercussions. Whereas up to the ...

The titans of Abstract Expressionism are on view now at The Royal Academy of Arts in London. It’s a massive show comprising 163 works by 30 painters, sculptors, and photographers, and will likely go ...

My painting / Jackson Pollock -- The romantics were prompted ; Two statements from The tiger's eye / Mark Rothko -- The first man was an artist ; The sublime is now ; Ohio, 1949 / Barnett Newman -- ...

The Met will give a joint spotlight to Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock in a blockbuster exhibition this fall. The show stresses that the artists were equals, despite Pollock’s unmatched fame. More ...

Some say there were just two rules governing the Club, a group of leading Abstract Expressionists in mid-century New York City. One was technical: Any two founding members could block a new applicant ...

Angels, Demons, and Savages: Pollock, Ossorio, Dubuffet, which was organized by Klaus Ottmann and Dorothy Kosinki for The Phillips Collection, Washington DC. (February 9–May 23, 2013) and is currently ...

One day in 1938, when abstract expressionism was a skinny creature starving in cold-water flats, a New York gallery invited three promising American artists to fill out a show of Picasso, Matisse and ...

Her work influenced Jackson Pollock. So, why isn’t Janet Sobel a household name like him? A new exhibit in Houston aims to remedy that. Houston Matters meets her grandson, who lives here, and learns ...

As a young woman at The Art Students League in Manhattan, Helen Harrison often headed to the nearby Museum of Modern Art at lunchtime, where she'd sit and ponder “One, No. 31, 1950,” the wall-sized ...

Jackson Pollock, at 43 the bush-bearded heavyweight champion of abstract expressionism, shuffled into the ring at Manhattan’s Sidney Janis Gallery, and flexed his muscles for the crowd with a ...