The Abstract Expressionists emerged from obscurity in the late 1940s to establish New York as the centre of the art world – but some say they became pawns of US spies in the Cold War.

Suspicions about the almost sudden spread and funding of American art movements such as Abstract Expressionism ... funding for American art during the Cold War, their support for Arab art during ...

FOR half a century art critics have undertaken to address not a sophisticated minority like the readers of literary magazines, but the mass of unbelievers to whom twentieth-century art is a ...

Joey Izzo A fresh voice appears in the Charleston art scene — abstract expressionist painter Demetrius Bing. He works out of a home studio with walls covered in paintings, all of which he’s ...

Researchers studying people's brain activity when looking at abstract art have revealed why we interpret blobs of paint on canvas so differently. When you look at an abstract painting, study it in ...

O ften today in art galleries and hotels or even in wall art one would find the rise of abstract art. While at first glance these are just an amalgamation of colours spread over the canvas without ...

the New York art scene started coalescing around a group of artists including Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, visionaries who would develop a daring new movement known as abstract ...