Franz Kline

Robert Rauschenberg, the protean artist from small-town Texas whose imaginative commitment to hybrid forms of painting and sculpture changed the course of American and European art between 1950 and the early 1970s, died Monday night, according to New...

For an artist who's spent half a century painting pictures of people without any clothes on, Philip Pearlstein doesn't show much interest in their desires -- or in their personalities, thoughts or feelings. "I don't care about their inner lives," says...

I can't believe it. At 8 o'clock on a Friday night, four of us are the sole guests at Leatherby's Cafe Rouge, the new restaurant at the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa. Twenty minutes later, two tables are filled. Total. Considering...

Brice Marden's work is calmly contemplative yet rhythmically alive, abstract yet never fully detached from reference. It often recalls the sprawling strokes of Willem de Kooning or Franz Kline but always with more delicacy and less anger. Over four...

When Grace Hartigan was a little girl, she was bewitched by gypsies. In the 1930s, the Travelers still roamed the countryside in nomadic caravans, and young Grace would shinny up the apple tree in her parents' backyard in Newark, N.J., to spy on them....

Daily, artists labor to capture Cape Cod's quality of light, expanse of sky and sweeping seascapes. The resulting paintings, watercolors, photographs, pottery and sculptures have shaped the Cape's sense of itself and the world's sense of the Cape. Surely...

I n the 18th Century, before the nation was born, painters didn't come to Long Island; they left it. Robert Feke had to leave Oyster Bay, where he was born in 1705, and travel to Boston and Newport to acquire the polish necessary to sell his portraits....

FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) A native of Baltimore, poet and art critic O'Hara served in the Navy briefly during World War II and moved to New York City in 1951. O'Hara first worked at the counter of the Museum of Modern Art, often scribbling down poems...

NEW YORK — At least once a decade for the last 30 years an exhibition or a book has sought to raise the profile of American-French painter Joan Mitchell (1926-1992). Each entry seemed more convincing than the last, yet in the end the artist remained...