A new scientific study is challenging long-held beliefs about Jackson Pollock and his iconic “drip paintings,” suggesting that the Abstract Expressionist may have embedded hidden images, or what ...

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 — ...

Jackson Pollock had bad balance. This is not the opinion of a snarky viewer sniping at a drip painting, but the assessment of Francis O’Connor, the great Pollock scholar. After a difficult birth ...

‘A child could have done that’ is modern art’s most banal criticism, but in the case of Jackson Pollock, the cynics are actually right. The US artist of the abstract expressionist movement was the ...

In the latter years of World War II, the New York art scene started coalescing around a group of artists including Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, visionaries who would develop a daring new ...

“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 (1912–1956) was the founder of the Abstract Expressionist Movement in art. This was the first truly American artform and its development had worldwide repercussions. Whereas up to the ...

As a young woman at The Art Students League in Manhattan, Helen Harrison often headed to the nearby Museum of Modern Art at lunchtime, where she'd sit and ponder “One, No. 31, 1950,” the wall-sized ...

Jackson Pollock and John Cage are legends in American history. In the centennial year of both artists’ births, two exhibitions now on view in New York celebrate their work and underline the fact that ...

In the eleven years since he was killed in a car crack-up at the age of 44, Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock, fabled for his whiplash paintings, truculent insistence on wearing cowboy boots, 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 ...