Alfred Leslie: Leading New York Beat Painter And Filmmaker Dies Aged 95
The leading New York ‘Beat’ Painter and filmmaker Alfred Leslie has died aged 95. Leslie was born in the Bronx in 1927 and lived and worked in Manhattan.
31 January 2023
Art Tag: Abstract Expressionism
Stolen Hans Hofmann Paintings Recovered – Scandalous Inside Job Exposed
Part of a collection of Hans Hofmann paintings stolen in 2004 from a New York City-based fine art storage facility has been recovered. Working with the NYPD and the FBI, Art Recovery International negotiated the release of one of the paintings.
26 December 2017
Ann Freedman The End Or The Beginning For Knoedler’s Disgraced Director
Ann Freedman has settled her final lawsuit in what has been New York’s biggest art scandal.
13 September 2017
Bilbao Gongs And Bongs Paul Carey Kent The Guggenheim And More
BILBAO GONGS AND BONGS Paul Carey-Kent has just spent 30 hours in Bilbao, mostly focused on the opening of Abstract… Read More
5 February 2017
360 Degree Tour of the Abstract Expressionism at Royal Academy
In case you missed the Royal Academy of Arts Autumn blockbuster exhibition Abstract Expressionism or you want to re-live it, here is a 360 degree tour of the show.
3 January 2017
Arshile Gorky Estate To Be Represented By International Gallery Hauser & Wirth
The highly regarded international art gallery Hauser & Wirth has announced it is to take on exclusive worldwide representation of the Arshile Gorky Estate.
4 October 2016
Abstract Expressionism The Dark Triumph Of American Art By Edward Lucie Smith
The new Abstract Expressionism show that just opened in the main galleries of the Royal Academy at Burlington House, is an… Read More
22 September 2016
Clyfford Still Museum Agrees To Loan Royal Academy Nine Iconic Paintings
The Clyfford Still Museum in Denver Colorado has agreed to loan the Royal Academy an unprecedented nine major paintings from the… Read More
13 April 2016
Royal Academy Announces First Major UK Abstract Expressionism Exhibition For Sixty Years
The first major exhibition of Abstract Expressionism to be held in the UK in almost six decades. With over 150… Read More
12 April 2016
Albert Irvin RA English Abstract Expressionist Dies Aged 92
Albert Henry Thomas Irvin OBE, the English Abstract Expressionist painter, was born 21 August 1922.
27 March 2015
Jackson Pollock Alchemy Painting Finally Reveals The Artist’s Secrets
A large-scale painting by the late Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock has shed new light on how the artist created his… Read More
19 February 2015
Is This Painting By Barnett Newman Really Worth $30-40 Million?
A painting by the seminal American Abstract Expressionist painter Barnett Newman goes under the hammer at Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening… Read More
5 May 2013
Paul Jenkins New York Color Field Painter Dies At 88
Paul Jenkins the post abstract expressionist and ‘Color Field’ painter has died in New York age 88. He was widely associated with the Color Field movement
17 June 2012
Tate Retrospective For Key Painter Alex Katz
Born in 1927 in Brooklyn, New York, Alex Katz is one of the most important and respected living American artists…. Read More
6 May 2012
Anthony Caro Applauds Reactionary Helen Frankenthaler
Caro pays tribute to late Abstract Expressionist Helen Frankenthaler, who campaigned against controversial artists during the 1980s Anthony Caro one… Read More
4 January 2012