The Dutch-born artist Willem de Kooning, a seminal figure in Abstract Expressionism and 20th-century art, came to the United ...
Still, by 1912 or so, most of the cultural radicals of this generation had made their way to New York, and many stayed ... they sought to combine politics and art, advocacy and poetry, life ...
Piet Mondrian was an early 20th-century abstract artist and art theorist obsessed with simplicity and essence of form. Even people who have never heard of Mondrian will likely recognize his iconic ...
Our next Art Deco Centenary ... Chicago's Tribune Tower and New York's Rockefeller Center. Built during the proliferation of American skyscrapers in the early 20th century, they represent attempts ...