Willem de Kooning

Tom Lamb could never have taken his pictures of a changing patch of Orange County at ground level. From his vantage point riding in helicopters airborne and tilted at varying angles above the former El Toro Marine Corps Air Station and surrounding...

Helen Frankenthaler, a New York artist whose bursts of color achieved by pouring thinned paint onto canvas from coffee cans helped point art in fresh directions after the initial post-World War II explosion of Abstract Expressionism, has died. She was 83....

John Chamberlain, a prolific American sculptor whose use of crushed automobile sheet metal became his signature during a career that spanned half a century, died Wednesday in New York City. He was 84. Reportedly in poor health, he had been working on a...

Stanford University has picked New York's Ennead Architects to build a $30.5 million home for a collection of contemporary American art it was given earlier this year. It's part of an arts building boom on the Palo Alto campus....

Steven A. Cohen, the billionaire who is in contention for the L.A. Dodgers baseball team, has been elected to the MOCA board of trustees....

Few actors own a role the way Hal Holbrook owns Mark Twain. The Tony- and Emmy-winning actor, who recently turned 87, has played the humorist in his one-man stage play “Mark Twain Tonight!” since 1954, logging thousands of performances and...

Tim Crouch's "England," a play for galleries, performs at the Skirball Cultural Center....

Christopher Knight reviews the new Clyfford Still Museum in Denver...

Works from Rose Art Museum won't be sold by Brandeis...

50 Years of NASA Art at National Air and Space Museum...

Christopher Knight's art picks for the fall season...

In the art world, treasure can be defined as a trove of never-before seen artworks, journals written in the hand of the artist, and links to other great artists already on the art-world radar, all found in one cache. From one such find are 54 paintings...