This is the first major de Kooning retrospective since the artist’s death in 1997, the first big show to span de Kooning’s entire career, the first time since MoMA’s 2004 redesign that a whole floor ...

The de Kooning retrospective that opened last month at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)—the first devoted to the full scope of the artist’s seven-decade career—presents a rich, nuanced view of a great ...

Willem De Kooning, one of the preeminent, if not the most celebrated painter of the New York School, is not a name one associates immediately with Italy. Yet a robust and extensively researched ...

Some women in front of de Kooning's women paintings at the MoMA exhibition (photo by the author) This week’s edition focuses on the de Kooning retrospective at MoMA, some essays on the 9/11 Museum, an ...

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 ...

At first, Ferrara made bookshelves and cooked his meals while living at Elaine’s house about a mile away. Soon he moved into de Kooning’s studio to help with organizing, stretching canvases and ...

THERE is a train track in the history of art that goes way back to Mesopotamia,” Willem de Kooning once noted, with an artist’s lordly disregard for details of engineering. “Duchamp is on it. Cézanne ...