Police investigating an international art smuggling scheme discovered a previously unknown work by famed abstract painter Jackson Pollock in Bulgaria, officials said. Experts estimated the painting — ...

Decades after a brazen art theft drove Merry White's father to despair, federal agents closed in on one last missing work.

Abstract expressionism is a movement in art that experiments with the disconnect between color and line, and the creation of illusion within reality. This limitless pictorial space was born from the ...

Jackson Pollock, “Earth Worms” (1946) (Tel Aviv Museum of Art Collection, gift of Peggy Guggenheim, Venice through the American-Israel Cultural Foundation, 1954 ...

“Pollock” is a colossal word in art. Automatically it brings to mind the abstract drip-paintings of a disturbed, passionate alcoholic who drizzled paint in layers as he walked around huge canvases.

"[Jackson] Pollock would often begin with some sort of figurative device to which he would then respond—and eventually bury under layers of paint," says Sue Taylor, an art historian at Portland State ...

Eighteen children, aged four to six, and 34 adults, aged 18 to 25, were recruited to recreate paintings such as Jackson Pollock’s by splattering diluted paint onto sheets of paper placed on the floor.

One day in 1938, when abstract expressionism was a skinny creature starving in cold-water flats, a New York gallery invited three promising American artists to fill out a show of Picasso, Matisse and ...

How a movement went from dreamworld to vanguard to establishment of its own. By Arthur Lubow Phillips Auctioneers filed a lawsuit against a third-party guarantor who had agreed to buy the painting at ...