Should a single Damien Hirst painting cost more than an entire Old Masters sale? Should Adrian Ghenie’s auction record stand higher than Frida Kahlo’s? The strange, fickle, mostly subjective nature of ...

In the realm of high-modern abstract painting, the color purple rarely gets the spotlight. The hue doesn’t have its own Picasso phase, like rose or blue. And let’s face it: Jackson Pollock’s “Lavender ...

Hans Hofmann’s paintings were acts of self-discovery, thrashed out with all the expansiveness and forthrightness of the new American spirit. But his paintings, to a greater degree than those of his ...

Artist Frank Stella sang his praises in his American Heritage magazine essay, “The Artist of the Century.” Students in America’s art schools today are reaping what he sowed through his 40 years of ...

Hofmann's personal papers are augmented by a large selection of printed matter, including exhibition catalogs, articles, news clippings, and monographs about Hofmann and modern art, as well as ...

The opening panel of wall text at the UC Berkeley Art Museum retrospective for painter Hans Hofmann declares he was “one of the most important figures of postwar American art.” If he is not as well ...

In 1963, Hans Hofmann, age eighty-three, arranged to give forty-five paintings and a very substantial sum of money to the University of California at Berkeley. The funds were intended to help build a ...

Hans Hofmann, Artist/ Teacher, Teacher/Artist: Documentary. Directed by Madeline Amgott. 1 p.m. Sunday on KQED. "What's on HBO?" will be the first question to enter the mind of the cable subscriber ...

Hans Hofmann disliked artistic labels and once told his New York art dealer, “If I ever find a style I’ll stop painting.” His seemingly freewheeling approach to making art sometimes confused critics, ...

Hofmann's personal papers are augmented by a large selection of printed matter, including exhibition catalogs, articles, news clippings, and monographs about Hofmann and modern art, as well as ...

This week, Jared Bowen and Joe Mathieu get in the Halloween spirit with “The Rocky Horror Show.” Then, Jared reviews the works of Hans Hofmann at the Peabody Essex Museum and Daniela Rivera at the ...