Arshile Gorky

Arshile Gorky was a 20th Century American master painter who had a major influence on Abstract Expressionism. Modern-day Brooklyn artist Nancy Drew uses acrylic, glitter and flocking in a nod to Gorky and others with her own fuzzy, feminine, irreverent...

You might say that Joseph Cornell lived in a box within a box. From his early teens to his death in 1972 at the age of 69, the artist stayed firmly tied to a home in Queens he shared with his mother and invalid brother. When Cornell ventured out, it was...

Kimberly Strain, 51. Senior security supervisor. At the Museum of Contemporary Art for eight years. Former owner of a private catering company forced out of business in the wake of 9/11....

The financial chickens came home to roost at the Museum of Contemporary Art a year ago, but on the eve of what's being dubbed "MOCA New," a 30th-anniversary celebration centering on the museum's biggest exhibition ever -- drawn almost entirely from its...

If you favor Arshile Gorky, you will love the new Mkrtchyan Art Gallery in Glendale. As an Armenian American, Gorky (1902-1948) was a central figure in the development of 20th century art, blending imagery from his youth in Armenia with innovative...

Any excuse to look at paintings and drawings by Willem de Kooning is a good excuse, but L&M Arts is offering one with special rewards in a show called "Figure and Light." Sixteen drawings and paintings on paper chronicle the......

The life and work of "Corinne" Michael West will be on display at the Art Resource Group Gallery in Newport Beach beginning on Saturday. West was a 20th century American painter and poet, whose painting and passion was instrumental to the development...

In November the Museum of Contemporary Art opened an impressive survey exhibition of the collection it has assembled over the last 30 years. (If you haven't seen the sprawling show of some 500 works — it continues through the spring—......

If awards from your peers mean the most, LACMA curator Stephanie Barron is having a significantly good day. Barron has received top honors from the Assn. of Art Museum Curators, which has a 900-plus membership, for her exhibition "Art of......

Arshile Gorky was an essential pivot in Modern abstract art -- a critical hinge between rarefied European aesthetics before World War II and a more muscular, thoroughly American variety that emerged after, in the late 1940s and 1950s. That's the......

If you've been to the Geffen Contemporary to see the Museum of Contemporary Art's 30th anniversary exhibition in the last seven months, then you've seen Vija Celmin's exquisite 1992 painting "Night Sky #4." Hanging on the front wall at the......

Double play: Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch will succeed Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury in the Broadway revival of "A Little Night Music," which was set to close June 20 but now will resume performances in July. (Playbill) Search narrows:....