The Dutch-born American painter Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) was a leader of the abstract expressionist movement of the 1940s and 1950s. Before the 1940s the major advances in modern painting were forged on English and European soil. American artists,...

New Yorkers with gobs and gobs of money can afford certain pleasures, like Mayan abdominal massages or pomegranate-tangerine juices or the occasional 9,000-square-foot East Hampton mansion. And because the mammoth art collector and SAC Capital hedge-fund founder Steven A. Cohen is worth around $3 billion,...

“One of the most ambitious … undertakings in the Whitney’s history” is how Adam Weinberg, the museum’s director, describes Picasso and American Art, an exhibition that sets out to examine the “profound impact” Picasso had on painters and sculptors stateside. It had damn well better...

“One of the most ambitious … undertakings in the Whitney’s history” is how Adam Weinberg, the museum’s director, describes Picasso and American Art, an exhibition that sets out to examine the “profound impact” Picasso had on painters and sculptors stateside. It had damn well...

Today is Monday, March 19, the 78th day of 2007. There are 287 days left in the year. This is the date the swallows traditionally return to the San Juan Capistrano Mission in California.Today's Highlight in History:On March 19, 1945, during World War II, 724...

As the story of his life reveals, the painter Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) never conformed to a particular style of painting; while he was labeled an abstract expressionist, his series on women set him apart from other painters of that style. The painting Seated Woman (1940), depicting a woman in a bar who is seemingly in despair over being stood up by a man, is among de Kooning's most intriguing works.