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Whitechapel's riveting show of female painters deftly scotches abstract expressionism's reputation for being an all-male club
They were crazy, cramped, messy and threatening — but the Happenings of the early 60s just might be the missing link between Dada and today’s immersive art.
Film as light; film as music; film as painting; film as seeing: from our November 1993 issue, Stan Brakhage speaks about his prolific career as an experimental filmmaker.
Artists and critics, who see these dynamics play out on the ground, respond to the 2022 Burns Halperin Report.
Abstract Expressionism, broad movement in American painting that began in the late 1940s and became a dominant trend in Western painting during the 1950s. The most prominent American Abstract Expressionist painters were Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and Mark Rothko. Others included Joan Mitchell, Clyfford Still, Philip Guston, Helen Frankenthaler, Barnett Newman, Adolph Gottlieb, Robert Motherwell, Lee Krasner, Bradley Walker Tomlin, William Baziotes, Ad Reinhardt, Richard Pousette-Dart, Elaine de Kooning, and Jack Tworkov. Most of these artists worked, lived, or exhibited ...