New York is a city that quickly cycles through artistic trends, so it's been surprising that figurative painting has hung on ...

My painting was too inbred ... with booby traps and corn fields”—i.e., the trite and sentimental. But his abstract period served him well in his new endeavor, providing an overall pattern ...

Or it could a painting with white paint glopped and dripped, Abstract Expressionist-style, on a black ground. Get close and you find that, in fact, it’s a large rough-textured mosaic pieced ...

the first art movement to originate solely from the United States. Unsurprisingly, Abstract Expressionism, like most canonical art historical movements, was largely practiced by white men of means ...