At first, Ferrara made bookshelves and cooked his meals while living at Elaine’s house about a mile away. Soon he moved into de Kooning’s studio to help with organizing, stretching canvases and ...

Recording stops and starts, has hum, background noise and low level of sound. Portions of discussion are muffled. Willem de Kooning, interviewed by Karlen Mooradian, discusses his experiences with ...

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 ...

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Directly our paranoid potential is aroused, it is as if we set foot into a mythological world inhabited, not by human beings, but by demons, ogres and witches whose evil practices can only be combated ...

For lovers of paint. For anyone fascinated by pigmented, viscous oil lavishly applied to canvas. For those who delight in the curly cues it forms when dry after coming off the brush, the smears, the ...

Willem de Kooning painted his “Door to the River” masterpiece at the height of his powers If you were to talk about what made American art exciting in the two decades after World War II, you could ...

Within a few seconds of entering “Willem de Kooning: Endless Painting” at Gagosian in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood, you will see sparkling examples of grand and intimate works spanning a lifetime.