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, ...

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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 ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. It was in the Fifties that de Kooning’s commanding reputation became a public phenomenon for the first time. It ...

Dutch-born painter Willem de Kooning is remembered as the first modern art star. The story of his life and influence on 20th century American art... 'De Kooning: An American Master' When the ...

Willem de Kooning needed some paint. It was 1948. The artist was working in a studio on Fourth Avenue in Greenwich Village, intensely focused on completing the paintings for his first solo exhibition, ...

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In an exception to the usual paintings-heavy blockbuster exhibitions, the Art Institute of Chicago is presenting the masterful drawings of Willem de Kooning. By Ted Loos Summer is the time for ...

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 ...