This fall, a trio of Willem de Kooning paintings from the collection of the deceased artist’s family will hit the block at Sotheby’s New York. Estimated to bring in more than $50 million together, the ...

We are at a moment in art when "isms" are dead, when instinct trumps theory, when abstraction and figuration live happily together, when variety is better than a single style, and when political ...

It’s a good day for the University of Arizona Museum of Art. The institution is celebrating the return of Willem de Kooning’s Woman-Ochre (1954–55), which was stolen the day after Thanksgiving in 1985 ...

It’s that time of year—when Wall Street titans and Manhattan’s most fashionable decamp to the playground that is the Hamptons. In the 1960s, though, the area was known as a quaint enclave for art’s ...

The Southwest’s most brazen robbery didn’t occur from horseback against a stagecoach by a gang of masked desperadoes. It wasn’t 11 dashing and charismatic career hustlers knocking over three Las Vegas ...

I can only concur, gratefully, with Peter Schjeldahl’s enthusiastic review of the sumptuous de Kooning retrospective currently on view at MOMA and, in particular, his assessment of Willem de Kooning’s ...

Until I saw an exhibition of drawings by Willem de Kooning that opened last month at MOCA, I thought I knew and liked his work, but not more than that. Now I know better. This remarkable show traces ...

Nearly four decades after a Willem de Kooning painting was violently cut from its frame at a museum and kept in a couple’s bedroom, the newly restored work, likely worth well above $100 million, will ...

Philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen will be selling a coveted work from his collection, Willem de Kooning’s, Untitled XII, for $35 million, at Art Basel Hong Kong, being held March ...

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 ...