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Thinking made Easy (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
INTRODUCTION World history has witnessed the birth, development, and achievements of the most talented people. These people have their distinct gifts and area of mastery – literature, politics, arts, science, and so forth. Still, much of their success can be traced back to the kind of life and personality they...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
HE idolises Damien Hirst, the world's second most expensive living artist after Jasper Johns and Willem de Kooning. But there is not much to link the two sculptors other than their love for carving.
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Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
New York's Jewish Museum exhibits the superstar abstract painters (Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning), the critics that built their reputations and the rest of the artists who created the American postwar art ascendancy
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The New Yorker (Free subscription) | 19/05/2008
Action/Abstraction,” at the Jewish Museum, is more a perambulatory essay than an art exhibition, though it incorporates superb exhibits: classic paintings by the rival godheads of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, and fine works by other members (notably Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, and Clyfford Still), important . . .
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Slog (Free subscription) | 14/05/2008
Monogram , 1955-59 In the story of art history, Robert Rauschenberg is, among other things, the man who killed Willem de Kooning. In 1953, the young upstart Rauschenberg took a drawing by the elder de Kooning, erased it, and put the blank page on display inside a golden frame for all the world to see. Abstract expressionism was dead and had been swept offstage, and the audience was primed and ready...
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TMZ (Free subscription) | 12/05/2008
Filed under: Wacky and Weird TMZ.com : Come on Steve! When a clever photog mentions Willem de Kooning -- throw him a frickin' bone!Apparently the avid art collector is going through his Silent Period. See Also Martin Gets a Mouthful ... Read more
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TMZ: Video Player (Free subscription) | 12/05/2008
Come on Steve! When a clever photog mentions Willem de Kooning -- throw him a frickin' bone!
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 02/05/2008
This exceedingly handsome show features works by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Barnett Newman.
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 01/05/2008
NEW YORK CITY - The extraordinary drawings of Philip Guston (1913–1980) are the subject of a major exhibition at The Morgan Library & Museum, on view from May 2 through August 31, 2008. Together with Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, Guston is recognized as one of the most influential American artists of the twentieth century. The exhibition marks the first retrospective of his drawings in twenty...
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WFMU's Beware of the Blog (Free subscription) | 24/01/2008
Mark Schubert's sculptures are teetering monuments of garbage. Shards of plastic lawn furniture are melted down into jagged forms that bulge and balloon out at the tips recalling bulbous cartoon characters crossed with the most violent Willem de Kooning painting....
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International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 14/11/2007
Works by Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol and Willem de Kooning helped turn Christie's sale of postwar and contemporary art into an auctioneer's dream.
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ArtCal (Free subscription) | 14/11/2007
Allan Stone Gallery 113 East 90th Street, 212-987-4997 Upper East Side October 30 - December 22, 2007 Opening: Thursday, November 1, 5 - 7PM Web Site Willem de Kooning, Seated Woman , ca.1941, pencil on paper, 7 × 5 inches Willem de Kooning Drawings: 1920s – 1970s – October 30 to December 22, 2007 – celebrates forty-five years of de Kooning exhibitions at the Allan Stone Gallery. This exhibition of...
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ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 13/11/2007
The financial people are watching this week's auctions to see if the art market is slowing. "The strong prices achieved last night for everything from a striped wood barber pole ($16,250) to an early abstract painting by Willem de Kooning ($5.3 million) was a confidence builder."...
