The Art Detective is a weekly column by Katya Kazakina for Artnet News Pro that lifts the curtain on what’s really going on in the art market. As Frieze London greeted well-heeled VIPs in Regent’s ...

Some say there were just two rules governing the Club, a group of leading Abstract Expressionists in mid-century New York City. One was technical: Any two founding members could block a new applicant ...

In the Spring 1998 issue of Modern Painters, the painter Trevor Winkfield described Abstract Expressionism “as a monolith” that has been “accorded a reverential deference which . . . seems a mite ...

A luminous, red rectangular abstract by Mark Rothko sold for $85.8 million on Thursday, a solid kickoff to what’s poised to be ebullient spring auctions in New York. The seller of the 1957 work, ...

The image of a straight-laced CIA agent hardly goes hand and hand with the rebellious, chain-smoking, avant-garde artist, but the two are more closely linked than you might realize. During the Cold ...

He wrote seminal texts on the artists Clyfford Still and Mark Rothko, in a jargon-free style that won him readers far outside the art world. By Clay Risen David Anfam, a British art historian who won ...

From the May 2024 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. In 1949, the artist Robert Motherwell (1915–91) coined the phrase ‘New York School’. The term Abstract Expressionism seemed too narrow ...

On a quiet, tree-lined block on the Upper East Side, a Gilded Age carriage house where famed abstract expressionist Mark Rothko once lived and worked is back on the market. Its asking price is $9.5 ...

The titans of Abstract Expressionism are on view now at The Royal Academy of Arts in London. It’s a massive show comprising 163 works by 30 painters, sculptors, and photographers, and will likely go ...