An upcoming exhibition in Venice will be the first major show to explore how artist Willem de Kooning was inspired by his two visits to Italy, in 1959 and 1969. Including some 75 works ranging from ...

This fall, a trio of Willem de Kooning paintings from the collection of the deceased artist’s family will hit the block at Sotheby’s New York. Estimated to bring in more than $50 million together, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Out of a fog of amorphous intentions and blowsy, drunken histrionics, Willem de Kooning carved out a rare and imperiled species of ...

There was a time not too long ago when “Willem de Kooning and Italy,” at the Gallerie dell’Accademia, in Venice, would have had fans back in the U.S. gnashing their teeth. We are talking, after all, ...

It’s not news that the New York Abstract Expressionists were an anxiety-ridden, hard-drinking group of cantankerous guys, passionate about art and (for the most part) brutal to women. The rhetoric ...

On “Willem de Kooning and Italy” at the Gallerie dell’Accademia di Venezia, Venice. For a return to the twentieth century after an immersion in the Venetian Renaissance, the most exciting and ...

Bad art is easy to ignore. Good art is easy to get excited about. But how about another category altogether: art that often gets a lot of things wrong, but that is deeply interesting in how its ...

A new clue has emerged to explain how an unassuming New Mexico couple wound up in possession of a stolen Willem de Kooning painting worth more than $100 million. The University of Arizona museum ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LOS ANGELES — David Van Auker and Buck Burns stepped off an elevator and into a second-floor gallery at the J. Paul Getty Museum.

Cornelia Foss, better known as a confidante to other artists than as an artist herself, has put aside landscape painting for something far more visceral. By Max Norman A Parisian-born oil heiress, she ...

For lovers of paint. For anyone fascinated by pigmented, viscous oil lavishly applied to canvas. For those who delight in the curly cues it forms when dry after coming off the brush, the smears, the ...