Willem de Kooning

Call it an artful victory: The artists' team has beaten the writers' squad in a star-studded Hamptons charity softball game for creative types. Saturday's game in East Hampton featured Alec Baldwin as an umpire and Chevy Chase coming through with a...

'Wilfrid,' sted 'Wilifrid.' APNewsNow. Moving on general news and entertainment services. EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) _ It's a charity softball game that started with the likes of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning rounding the bases in sculptor...

Only in the Hamptons can a genial game of softball evolve into an annual rivalry involving Hollywood headliners, media moguls and the occasional captain of industry. The annual Artists & Writers Charity Softball Game celebrates its 60th iteration...

Like a lot of things in the garden, a well-planted pot is a work of art. But you need more than plant material and potting mix. You need an eye, a sense of daring, an inspiration. I was struck by this when I attended the opening of an invitational...

Seventy years ago today, the first section — roughly half — of the 34-mile Merritt Parkway opened to the hoopla of crowds and ribbon-cutting. Luminaries including former heavyweight champ Gene Tunney, hosts of mayors and first selectmen, state...

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...

American-Made The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work Nick Taylor Bantam: 630 pp., $27 The Works Progress Administration, which at its 1938 peak sustained 3,334,594 people on the federal payroll, was a cornerstone of the New...

Tuesday, Dec. 4. Art Basel has landed in Miami Beach. And Sun-Sentinel art writer Emma Trelles is on site, reporting daily. Here is the first sketch of what she saw on Day One: Art Miami Somehow we lucked out and found parking right next to Art Miami's...

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...

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...

Critic's Picks Mark Markov-Grinberg. Photographer Markov-Grinberg chronicled the dark and heady rise of the Soviet Union from the 1920s through the '40s. These were the years of Stalin's purges, of forced collectivization and mass industrialization. They...

Comics have only lately been admitted to the august precincts of high art. These outgrowths of mass media have come in for more than their share of drubbing at the fists of moralists and culture arbiters. But comics have long had their defenders:...