This month, throughout the spring, and continuing all year at museums across America, great women abstract artists of today, and their predecessors, receive a hard earned spotlight. Women have never ...

In 2024, art collector Christian Levett opened Europe’s first museum dedicated to women artists in a little town in the south of France. But for those of us who can’t make the trip to the Femmes ...

Pollock became well known outside of art circles for splashing, pouring and flicking paint onto canvases. Some even considered him the inventor of what became his signature technique. But in 1938, ...

Most people have heard of Jackson Pollock. But few are familiar with Janet Sobel, the Ukrainian-born American painter who first pioneered Pollock’s iconic drip-painting technique. The Abstract ...

Abstract art has traditionally been dominated by men, but female abstractionists have often been the trailblazers, as a new show at the National Museum of Women in the Arts makes abundantly clear.

I won’t be getting to Denver to see the exhibition Women of Abstract Expressionism, curated by Gwen F. Chanzit, and chances are I won’t be getting to Charlotte or Palm Springs to see its subsequent ...

DENVER — The paintings in Women of Abstract Expressionism at the Denver Art Museum are rich with emotion, monumental in scale, and totally original. Trine Bumiller: At Rhode Island School of Design I ...

You may have seen the photo before. It captures a group of 14 men and one woman clustered together in a sparse room, staring straight at the camera with scowls of varying intensity. The painter ...

Grace Hartigan, Cedar Bar, 1951. Oil on canvas, 39 x 31 ¾ in. Courtesy of Grace Hartigan Estate, The Levett Collection, and FAMM. Photo: Fraser Marr “We’re not writing them back into history,” ...

The exhibition shows how the principles of Abstract Expressionism were applied to the medium of collage. Abstract Expressionist painter Helen Frankenthaler at work on a large canvas in 1969. Photo: ...

The Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, which was extensively renovated and reinvigorated a few years ago, has two sharp modern exhibits on view for a few more weeks. “Andy Warhol: Endangered Species” is a ...