The artist's "Woman" paintings from the early 1950s are his most well-known sequence of figurative works, but what Alemani calls de Kooning’s “struggle with the human form” occupied many of ...

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None of that is immediately evident when first stepping into “BOOM: Art and Design of the 1940s” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which greets visitors with a 1940 “Patriot Radio” by industrial ...

Reading Notes to John, a new and much-discussed posthumous selection of Joan Didion’s writing, I thought over and over of ...

A six-metre-long triptych, valued between £2.2 and £3.7m, by the celebrated abstract expressionist Joan Mitchell was gifted to the gallery by Miami businessman Jorge M Pérez. It is on free display ...

Like most women, she was ordinary ... before he went to work. His paintings still bore the swirls and some of the gestures by then associated with the icon de Kooning had become.

And yet some great 20th-century American art has been made by artists who lived ... for looking dry seems unfair — like criticizing De Kooning’s work for looking unctuous — but the point ...