The American painter, a major figure of the second half of the 20th century who moved from figurative art to abstract ...

The Federal Art Project ensured steady wages for thousands of artists and generated hundreds of thousands of artworks, many for display in public buildings. Some of the 20th century’s most celebrated ...

Out of a fog of amorphous intentions and blowsy, drunken histrionics, Willem de Kooning carved out a rare and imperiled species of artistic brilliance. If it feels a little shocking that his work is ...

Gagosian will stage an exhibition dedicated to Willem de Kooning (1904-97) in New York this spring. Willem de Kooning: Endless Painting will examine the artist’s explorations of figuration and ...

DALLAS — Dozens of pages of recently unclassified FBI files reveal new details about the mysterious discovery of a $160-million-dollar painting found hanging behind a bedroom door, raising new ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “Villa Borghese”, the famous landscaped gardens celebrated in slashes of rococo pink and sandy yellow, verdant ...

“I’ve been fascinated for years by the time de Kooning spent in Italy, mostly in Rome,” said Gary Garrels, the former SFMOMA senior curator who co-organized the show with Mario Codognato, the chief ...

On “De Kooning: A Retrospective” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. In the fall of 1927, a twenty-three-year-old native of Rotterdam moved to Manhattan from the Dutch community in Hoboken, New ...

Willem de Kooning’s “Woman-Ochre” was stolen from the University of Arizona Museum of Art in 1985. After being missing for decades, it was found in 2017, by then valued at more than $100 million. But ...

Willem de Kooning painted his “Door to the River” masterpiece at the height of his powers If you were to talk about what made American art exciting in the two decades after World War II, you could ...

After a Willem de Kooning painting worth millions was brazenly stolen in 1985 from an Arizona museum, the staff clung to the hope that it would turn up one day. But nobody could have predicted ...