Workers at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital were looking for room to store ventilators amid the pandemic when they found this cache. The pieces are now being appraised by art dealers. Annie Wermiel/NY ...
Hear from two de Kooning experts on the task of writing about the artist’s life and practice in the 1940s. Mark Stevens, coauthor of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography De Kooning: An American Master ...
Exterior of the Elaine de Kooning House, East Hampton, New York, summer 2018 (photo by Petita Cole, courtesy Elaine de Kooning House) EAST HAMPTON, New York — What is one to make of those occasions ...
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 ...
Willem De Kooning, one of the preeminent, if not the most celebrated painter of the New York School, is not a name one associates immediately with Italy. Yet a robust and extensively researched ...
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 ...
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 ...
One of de Kooning's friends once asked her what it was like to work in the shadow of her husband, Willem de Kooning. She replied: "I don't paint... For Artist Elaine De Kooning, Painting Was A Verb, ...
"Woman, I," by the Dutch-born artist Willem de Kooning, is part of a retrospective of the artist's career on view at the Museum of Modern Art, through Jan. 9. Credit: AP Remembering 9/11 ...
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, ...
THERE is a train track in the history of art that goes way back to Mesopotamia,” Willem de Kooning once noted, with an artist’s lordly disregard for details of engineering. “Duchamp is on it. Cézanne ...