Willem de Kooning
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KAWS, the pseudonym of the American artist Brian Donnelly, is best known for his distorted cartoon characters and embracing of popular culture, even being compared to Andy Warhol. Now, a lesser-known side is revealed as works from his vast art collection go on show in New York
Oliver Hoare's memoir details the story of the ambitious exchange of an Iranian masterpiece for a painting by the Abstract Expressionist
Plus, a colourful Magritte painting and a Simone Baltaxé tapestry
A show studded with masterpieces by the Dutch-American Abstract Expressionist—but the Italian connection is tenuous
The American artist’s prolific career included two spells in Italy, ten years apart. An exhibition in Venice explores the impact these visits had on his work
The Foundation for Contemporary Arts has been selling works donated by visual artists to fund those working in experimental forms and performance since 1963
Gallerie dell’Accademia show will explore how Italy shaped the late artist’s vision
A previous group of 11 works from Newhouse's collection brought in $216.2m across two Christie's sales in 2019
An excerpt from one of Thiebaud’s final interviews, which features in the catalogue of a survey at the Fondation Beyeler, reveals how the US artist arrived at his signature style
The painting, which was missing for more than 30 years after it was cut from its frame and stolen, made a stop at the Getty Center in Los Angeles for restoration
Two of the star lots have been consigned by the Greek Cypriot industrialist and collector Dakis Joannou
Star lots include one of Picasso’s earliest paintings of his muse Marie-Thérèse Walter and a dynamic De Kooning
The painting was sliced from its frame and torn from its backing in a daylight robbery at the University of Arizona Museum of Art on Thanksgiving Day in 1985
Los Angeles museum will unveil the results of an intensive conservation of Woman-Ochre, which was badly damaged when it was stolen in 1985
A side-by-side show at the Barnes Foundation brings together two Expressionist greats who fused the figurative and the abstract in their work
Picasso, Beckmann, De Kooning and the female form
Director of the Rose Art Museum examines both sides of the argument
Posthumous popularity at Max Protetch, last works at Matthew Marks mapping at James Cohan, psychedelic audio-visual art at Feigen effective excellence at Zwirner, and homage at Universal Concepts
The donation will strengthen the museum’s holdings with major paintings by Americans such as Philip Guston, Leon Golub, Richard Diebenkorn and Willem de Kooning
Are we right to be so admiring of the work currently exhibited at the Tate
As the current survey opens in London, we look at how it fared in the US
The greatest surviving Persian manuscript was swapped for Woman III, once owned by the Shah of Iran