A celebration was in order. It has been a year this week since Willem de Kooning’s “Woman-Ochre,” stolen from the University of Arizona Museum of Art in 1985, was found hanging behind a door in a ...

Elaine de Kooning’s “Standing Bull” (1958) is a work of art that charges at you — soaked in light, saturated with muscular energy and visibly in motion, even in a fixed position on the wall. Nearly 9 ...

Gagosian`s centennial celebration of Willem de Kooning begins with his hard-nosed breakthroughs into abstraction and ends by unveiling mysterious glories from his studio in the Springs. De Kooning`s ...

An installation view of the exhibition “Willem de Kooning: Endless Painting” at Gagosian. Photograph by Maris Hutchinson. Artwork © 2025 The Willem de Kooning ...

Out of a fog of amorphous intentions and blowsy, drunken histrionics, Willem de Kooning carved out a rare and imperiled species of artistic brilliance. If it feels a little shocking that his work is ...

Images from 1965 of the pre-eminent artist were stored in The Times’s archives and only recently revealed. By John Otis The Dutch-born artist Willem de Kooning, a seminal figure in Abstract ...

DALLAS — Dozens of pages of recently unclassified FBI files reveal new details about the mysterious discovery of a $160-million-dollar painting found hanging behind a bedroom door, raising new ...

On “Willem de Kooning and Italy” at the Gallerie dell’Accademia di Venezia, Venice. For a return to the twentieth century after an immersion in the Venetian Renaissance, the most exciting and ...

At first, Ferrara made bookshelves and cooked his meals while living at Elaine’s house about a mile away. Soon he moved into de Kooning’s studio to help with organizing, stretching canvases and ...

There was a time not too long ago when “Willem de Kooning and Italy,” at the Gallerie dell’Accademia, in Venice, would have had fans back in the U.S. gnashing their teeth. We are talking, after all, ...