A trove of stolen paintings by Abstract Expressionist master Hans Hofmann has been recovered by agency Art Recovery International, more than a decade after they were stolen from a fine art storage ...

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 ...

A resonant exhibit at Vermont's Brattleboro Museum brings together work by artists who have endured displacement in search of freedom. The Written Art Collection is unique in its profile. For the ...

When Hans Hofmann accepted a commission for a large-scale mosaic mural project in the Peruvian city of Chimbote in 1950, he was already seventy years old. An influential Abstract Expressionist painter ...

NAPLES -- No mid-20th century artist did more to excite interest in abstract painting than the Bavarian Hans Hofmann His philosophy of spatial representation -- using textured squares and rectangles ...

Nationally recognized paintings conservator Michael Ruzga, director and Head of Conservation at Fine Arts Conservation, Inc., will present "Hans Hofmann's Blue Spell: The Artist's Materials, ...

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 ...

The tall bell tower that was supposed to be a glimmering beacon for the people of Chimbote, Peru, never did come to pass, but it gave rise to another kind of star, whose work continues to be seen by ...

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 ...

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 ...