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 ...
Out of a fog of amorphous intentions and blowsy, drunken histrionics, Willem de Kooning carved out a rare and imperiled species of artistic brilliance. If it feels a little shocking that his work is ...
Last week, the university welcomed Reclining Figure (1969-1982) by renowned American artist Willem de Kooning to the Homewood campus. On loan from The Willem de Kooning Foundation in New York City, ...
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 ...
Jerry Saltz: Mark, the Willem de Kooning biography you and your wife, Annalyn Swan, wrote gave me the most vivid picture of the mid-century New York art world I’ve ever had. One thing that really ...
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 ...