Born in post-war New York, Abstract Expressionism was a watershed moment in the evolution of 20th-century art which redefined the nature of painting. Yet, remarkably, there has been no major survey of ...

Tate Modern in London has unveiled an extensive exhibition celebrating the parallel evolution of photography and abstract art, voiced through more than 350 sculptures, paintings, installations and ...

The rehang of Tate Modern's collection has been unveiled. The collection of more than 400 art works has been regrouped around the four "isms" of Minimalism, Cubism, Surrealism and Abstract ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The road to abstraction, like many journeys, was always more fun than the arrival. Between 1909 and 1914 the ...

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter In 1959, New York’s Museum ...

Graham Coxon has created a piece of music for Tate Modern's Tate Tracks series that is inspired by Meryon, a black-and-white painting by the Abstract Expressionist Franz Kline. It can be heard in the ...

Two haunting paintings of artist Arshile Gorky and his mother can be seen together for the first time at the Tate. They are a highlight of the first retrospective of Gorky's work in Europe in 20 years ...

His style was so singular, so recognisable, that it even won Jackson Pollock his own nickname – Jack the Dripper. But just when the art world – and indeed the world in general – believed they had the ...

Jackson Pollock, Yellow Islands, 1952 Tate London 2004 A new exhibition opening at Norwich Castle provides a rare opportunity to see together paintings by some of the most celebrated artists of the ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Outstanding, astounding, filled with thrills but also with melancholy, Abstract Expressionism at the Royal Academy is ...

Albert Irvin, the painter, who has died aged 92, started out in the 1950s as a figurative artist of the kitchen sink school, but after discovering Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko at ...