“Action/Abstraction Redefined” features 36 artists and over 50 works of art from the Institute of American Indian Arts' permanent collection across the movements of abstract expressionism ...

Its contributors wrestle awkwardly with these counterproductive art historical labels while setting the record straight about the Iranian-American poet and painter who won critical acclaim among ...

When, in his essay “The American Action Painters,” Harold Rosenberg described the “encounter” at the heart of the new style—the artist, “material in his hand,” wanting “to do something to that other ...

Abstract expressionism was America's great aesthetic movement—or so said the artists. A new MoMA show may (unwittingly) make us reconsider that claim.

Historically, Rauschenberg got us from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art—one of the greatest stylistic leaps ever—by introducing those bits of the readymade and the already-seen into the meaty ...

Abstract art became “officially” art only in 1952, when Harold Rosenberg wrote a seminal essay published by ARTnews magazine titled “The American Action Painters.” Before that, since after the World ...

Abstract art became “officially” art only in 1952, when Harold Rosenberg wrote a seminal essay published by ARTnews magazine titled “The American Action Painters.” Before that, since after the World ...