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 ...

Steven Mnuchin, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Treasury secretary, and the son of top art dealer Robert Mnuchin, has been making headlines lately. The latest is his ownership stake in a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LOS ANGELES — David Van Auker and Buck Burns stepped off an elevator and into a second-floor gallery at the J. Paul Getty Museum.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Out of a fog of amorphous intentions and blowsy, drunken histrionics, Willem de Kooning carved out a rare and imperiled species of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gagosian’s centennial celebration of Willem de Kooning begins with his hard-nosed breakthroughs into abstraction and ends by unveiling mysterious glories from his studio in the Springs. De Kooning’s ...

A new clue has emerged to explain how an unassuming New Mexico couple wound up in possession of a stolen Willem de Kooning painting worth more than $100 million. The University of Arizona museum ...

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 ...

The great myth about the painter Willem de Kooning is that he arrived like a comet in the 1940s and tailed off soon after, said Jerry Saltz in New York. During the few short years that the Dutch-born ...

It is easy to think of Willem de Kooning as the poster boy of modern art. So much of his life--the bohemian existence in Greenwich Village, the poverty, the womanizing, the alcoholism--fits the cliche ...

For lovers of paint. For anyone fascinated by pigmented, viscous oil lavishly applied to canvas. For those who delight in the curly cues it forms when dry after coming off the brush, the smears, the ...