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New exhibit at Speed Art Museum explores women who shaped abstract expressionism

A new exhibit at the Speed Art Museum is shining a spotlight on the women who helped shape one of America's most influential ...
Hyperallergic

'Women of Abstract Expressionism’ Challenges the Canon But Is Only the Beginning

DENVER — The story goes like this. It is 1950. Virginia-born painter Judith Godwin learns that dancer and choreographer Martha Graham will be in the region and all Godwin can think about is her desire ...

Tracing art from impressionism through to abstract expressionism, and from Ohio to Adelaide

A feast of modern art from the Toledo Museum of Art has just opened at the Art Gallery of South Australia. Featuring some big ...
Hyperallergic

How is MoMA's "Abstract Expressionist New York" Faring Online?

The Museum of Modern Art’s Abstract Expressionist New York: The Big Picture, an ambitious exhibition that (kinda) rethinks the standard narrative of Abstract Expressionism (aka AbEx), has been open ...
The New Criterion

The women of Abstract Expressionism

On Ninth Street Women: Five Painters and the Movement that Changed Modern Art, by Mary Gabriel. Jackson Pollock was dead. Drunk, as usual, he’d overturned his Oldsmobile in the summer of 1956, ...
Artnet

Painter Mary Abbott, a Fixture of New York’s Abstract Expressionist Movement, Has Died at Age 98

Abstract Expressionist painter Mary Abbott, known for her colorful canvases and sweeping brushstrokes, has died at the age of 98. McCormick Gallery in Chicago, which has represented the artist for ...
Vogue

“Women of Abstract Expressionism” Challenges the Myth of the Macho Paint-Splattered Man

“You can talk about light, scale, depth, beauty, color, shape, form, perspective,” the great mid-century abstract painter Helen Frankenthaler once said, “but it’s no formula of those things that make ...
WAMC

"Heroines Of Abstract Expressionism" At The Fenimore Art Museum

September Twenty-third, 1980, Lee Krasner, ink, crayon and collage on lithographic paper, Richard P. Friedman and Cindy Lou Wakefield Collection Overcoming obstacles such as sexism and discrimination ...
Houston Public Media

Janet Sobel’s abstract paintings were ahead of her time — a Houston exhibit brings her work to a modern audience

Her work influenced Jackson Pollock. So, why isn’t Janet Sobel a household name like him? A new exhibit in Houston aims to remedy that. Houston Matters meets her grandson, who lives here, and learns ...
The Conversation

Abstract Expressionism: how New York overtook Europe to become the epicentre of Western art

A new exhibition, Abstract Expressionism, opens at London’s Royal Academy this weekend. It is the first major survey of the movement since 1959. Abstract expressionism is often considered the first ...
Psychology Today

Is AI the New Abstract Expressionist?

In the aftermath of World War II, abstract expressionism burst onto the art scene as a defiant rejection of traditional forms and conventions. Artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...