Willem de Kooning

Helen Frankenthaler dies at 83; abstract painter

2011-12-28 00:00:00

Helen Frankenthaler, a New York artist whose bursts of color achieved by pouring thinned paint onto canvas from coffee cans helped point art in fresh directions after the initial post-World War II explosion of Abstract Expressionism, has died. She was 83....

John Chamberlain dies at 84; American sculptor

2011-12-23 00:00:00

John Chamberlain, a prolific American sculptor whose use of crushed automobile sheet metal became his signature during a career that spanned half a century, died Wednesday in New York City. He was 84. Reportedly in poor health, he had been working on a...

Stanford picks architect for art collection's $30.5-million home

2011-12-14 16:33:06

Steve Cohen, billionaire financier and art collector, joins MOCA board

2012-01-12 21:33:07

Val Kilmer wants to make his Mark (Twain)

2012-04-06 16:32:22

Theater review: 'England' at Skirball Cultural Center

2011-11-11 16:33:00

Art review: Denver's Clyfford Still Museum

2011-11-20 16:33:06

Brandeis University won't sell works from Rose Art Museum

2011-06-30 16:33:07

50 Years of NASA Art at National Air and Space Museum

2011-08-20 16:33:01

Fall arts picks: Art

2011-09-16 16:33:17

MOCA celebrates 30 years and a rebirth

2009-11-08 00:00:00

The financial chickens came home to roost at the Museum of Contemporary Art a year ago, but on the eve of what's being dubbed "MOCA New," a 30th-anniversary celebration centering on the museum's biggest exhibition ever -- drawn almost entirely from its...

Monster Mash: Stonehenge skeleton from Mediterranean area; Pace Gallery nabs de Kooning

2010-09-30 16:33:01

Penn photographed theater designer, artist and architect Frederick Kiesler, left, with abstract expressionist artist Willem de Kooning in New York in 1960.

2009-10-07 16:15:13

The Pop artist, shown in his New York studio in 1965, had planned to become a cartoonist until he saw the work of Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning.

2004-12-23 08:44:58