Before there was Jackson Pollock, there was Janet Sobel. Pollock became well known outside of art circles for splashing, pouring and flicking paint onto canvases. Some even considered him the inventor ...

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 ...

In London, a new exhibition highlights how the movement emerged across the world during the mid-twentieth century. By Charlotte Jansen Reporting from London When the landmark Abstract Expressionism ...

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 ...

The Long View amply demonstrates that Jay DeFeo and Joan Brown may be the best known Bay Area women artists who worked in abstraction, but they were far from alone. Already a member? Sign in here. We ...

The bold, colorful world of 1960s British pop art was dominated by male artists. However, one woman refused to stay in the ...

Again and again, a loud splat was followed by a chorus of encouraging whoops and cheers as a long line of mostly women each took their turn to hurl two eggs at the wall of T.J. Boulting gallery in ...

Have you ever wondered where all the women artists are when wandering through a museum or browsing a book about the history of art? Women artists, and in particular women painters, have always been ...

Who invented modern art? Or, more specifically, abstract art? We all know the answer. It was the free-thinking American and European painters of the mid-20th century, heroes like Mark Rothko, Jackson ...

Like most art movements, if you look for a list of abstractionists, you will find a roster of mostly straight white men. But with Pride Month upon us, it’s as good of a time as ever to shed light on ...

Outside avant-garde artistic circles, the creation of The Abstract Group, in Pittsburgh, in late 1944, was greeted with something less than fanfare. In a contemporaneous installment of his column ...