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    Antiques and art  Sep 13, 2008
    " Accordingly, a couple of rare tables of the 1780s with gilt bronze legs in the manner of Gouthi?re, and other 18th-century pieces, are seen in a stand with glass walls. More Coverage Multimedia Photographs Bringing clarity to the past at the Paris Biennale? Today in Culture But even when the furniture dealers opt for a traditional presentation like Herv? Aaron, of Paris and London, there is a new clarity. You will not see the hosts of baubles that would inevitably have come some years ago with... (International Herald Tribune)

    A 14-Year Labor  Aug 31, 2008
    Biggest budget of any of his films: "That'd be the next film (laughs). We're doing a film on a Willem de Kooning painting, 'Woman No. 1.' Stacy (Keach) is going to be in that and Ron (Perlman) and some other people. And we're looking for a decent budget so we can spend more time and break the cycle of poverty a little bit.". What he'd do if he had a $100 million film budget: "I'd probably make about 100 films. I'd make as many films as I could. I certainly wouldn't make one film. That'd be... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)

    More than words: 77-year-old artist creates poetic works  Aug 28, 2008
    Ionia draws inspiration from artists such as Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. Robert Rauschenberg, an abstract artist who often incorporated trash he found with his art, is her favorite. (Winona Daily News, MN)

    American art's heroic moment  Jul 13, 2008
    The first, made in 1967, shows Willem de Kooning at work in his orderly studio ... Willem de Kooning's 1949 oil on canvas Woman demonstrates the artist's signature swashbuckling brushwork. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)

    Girlz on the hood  Jun 24, 2008
    There's a recent set of drawings riffing on the style of Willem de Kooning, except the old abstract expressionist only drew women who looked like Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, while these are manic androgynes, De Kooning's swervy charcoal swipes and blurry erasures reduced to a merely competent and mannered style. One figure shows his/her willy, encased in a pair of see-through plastic panties. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)

    Cannes Announce Press , Design & Cyber Winners  Jun 20, 2008
    Thijs Biersteker and Karian Weijers from the Willem de Kooning Academy took the gold Print Medal for the Netherlands, with Fabiano de Queiroz Silva of McCann Erickson and Marcelo Mariano Dias from JWT taking gold for their Cyber submission. The Press Jury was chaired by Craig Davis, Chief Creative Officer, Worldwide, JWT London UK; Design was led by Rodney Fitch CBE, Chairman Executive Officer, Fitch, London UK; Colleen DeCourcy, Chief Digital Officer, TBWA Worldwide, New York USA, was the Jury... (Media Newsline)

    * [ART JOURNA] Seasons of Cy Twombly  Jun 18, 2008
    Like Rauschenberg, who as a young man spent three weeks erasing a drawing he had acquired from Willem de Kooning, Twombly, in Serotas words, evokes rather than describes. Nowhere is his genius for evocation X for suggesting the mood or feeling of a place or a moment X more apparent than in the set of 24 drawings he made in 1959 called Poems to the Sea. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)

    His scattered dreams  Jun 17, 2008
    Like Willem de Kooning, Twombly forced himself to draw and write with his left hand, or with his eyes closed. (De Kooning drew while averting his eyes from the paper, and while watching TV.) Making his own touch unfamiliar, Twombly presented himself as other to himself. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)

    Artful Borrowing  Jun 13, 2008
    The collector, who sold his Minnesota real estate company in 1998, has used art loans to build an impressive array of post-war pieces, including works by Lucio Fontana and Willem de Kooning. The terms vary. (Forbes -- Business)

    Japan takes Emily to heart  May 31, 2008
    Emily's work has been regularly compared to the New York abstract expressionists Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko. A principal distinction the critics make, and it is key to understanding the acclaim surrounding the paintings of the Utopian artist, is that Kngwarreye is better, more profound. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)

    Disabled locals develop into top-notch artists  May 30, 2008
    She defies anybody to tell the difference between some of her students' abstract work and that of acclaimed modern artists such as Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning. Her talented clients are the subject of the locally produced documentary "Inner Eye," which premier. (Modesto Bee, CA)

    Monet talks, and so does this abstract genius  May 28, 2008
    She believes the Japanese understand the importance of Kngwarreye as an abstract expressionist and place her on a level with Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko. There is a connection between her work and calligraphy. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)

    Morality comes to the Croisette  May 25, 2008
    It's a collage of memories, music and musings over superb archival shots of old Liverpool through the seasons, with Davies's fruity, basso delivery praising the old working classes at work and play, citing Engels ('removed from the sight of the happier classes, poverty may struggle along as it can'), TS Eliot and Willem de Kooning: 'The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time. The trouble with being rich, adds Davies's voice summing up the Cannes mood, is that it takes up... (Guardian Unlimited -- Film)

    DMA Director John R. Lane Retires  May 23, 2008
    Under Lane's diligent leadership, major exhibitions devoted to artists Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), Sigmar Polke (b. 1941) and Jeff Koons (b. (Suite101.com)

    In Cannes, ruminations on the past; musings on the present  May 20, 2008
    Mixing his words with quotations (from Friedrich Engels to Willem de Kooning), pop songs and classical music, he brings the past sensitively to life with black-and-white and color footage of a time long gone, both distant and still. Wong has explained that he set out to make the definitive edition of "Ashes" after he discovered that there were many versions floating about, authorized and not. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)

    'Extrovert of expressionism' dies  May 15, 2008
    Erased might be seen as emblematic of Rauschenberg's view of abstract expressionism, the school to which Willem de Kooning (who had given the drawing to Rauschenberg) belonged. Brooding seriousness and majestic aspirations were anathema to Rauschenberg and his art. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)

    Junking the Real Meaning of Art: RIP Mr. Rauschenberg  May 15, 2008
    In 1953, Rauschenberg took a drawing from abstract impressionist Willem de Kooning and erased most of it. (Now were getting somewhere. (Townhall.com)

    Puffing Rauschenberg  May 15, 2008
    But none of his provocations move the daily art-crits in that directionnot his , not his "," not his , not his , not his , and not his "." Even the time that he asked Willem de Kooning for a drawing, erased its every line, and displayed it as Erased de Kooning Drawing wins worshipful treatment from the gang. "[A]n act both of destruction and devotion," reports the New York Times. (Slate)

    Robert Rauschenberg, art's eclectic master, dies at 82  May 14, 2008
    "Erased" might be seen as emblematic of Mr. Rauschenberg's view of Abstract Expressionism, the school to which Willem de Kooning (who had given the drawing to Mr. Rauschenberg) belonged. Brooding seriousness and majestic aspirations were anathema to Mr. Rauschenberg and his art. (Boston Globe)

    NYC Museum Exhibits: Summer 2008  May 12, 2008
    Artists represented include Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), Helen Frankenthaler (b. 1928), Mark Rothko (1903-1970), Philip Guston (1913-1980) and Clyfford Still (1904-1980). (Suite101.com)

    The visionary painting of an agonised soul  Apr 23, 2008
    "There were points of contact [in his work] with many of his artist colleagues, even those in Paris. Soutine was not so different from Chagall, Modigliani or Maurice Utrillo."The exhibition also highlights parallels with Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso," she added. Buzzing Paris The artist was born to a poor family in what is now Belarus and came to Paris in 1913 at the age of 20. The city was buzzing with young artists in search of new methods to shake up traditional art.Soutine, too, became... (SwissInfo.org, Switzerland)

    Putting Nikkatsu back on the map  Apr 19, 2008
    Its directors were doing to film what Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline were doing to painting. Nikkatsu in this era was basically turning out cruel-youth pictures: dirty, angry, confused, horny, vulgar, and assaulting movies that were also fun and astoundingly formally assured. (Boston Globe)

    Joseph Solman, preeminent painter at crossroads of 20th-century American art  Apr 18, 2008
    His friends included the photographers Berenice Abbott and Aaron Siskind and the painters Stuart Davis and Willem de Kooning. He edited a radical magazine, Art Front, with the critics Meyer Schapiro and Harold Rosenberg. (Boston Globe)

    Donald Bryant wants to open art collection to general public  Mar 31, 2008
    "Don has an extraordinary collection of 20th-century art, ranging from modern masters such as Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Richard Serra and many others to younger artists at the end of the 20th century, such as Charles Long, a sculptor who just had a show at the Saint Louis Art Museum, to the current generation of artists who are forging their way into the next century," said Rochelle Steiner, assistant curator of contemporary art at the Saint Louis Art Museum. "It is a wonderful... (St. Louis Business Journal, MO)

    Eye on abstract  Mar 25, 2008
    Foody doodled and took art classes in high school in the Chicago suburbs, but art was an afterthought to him until his early 30s, when he spotted the abstract paintings of Willem de Kooning. Inspired by the German artist's clashes of brusque colors and forms, Foody dedicated himself to art. (Auburn Citizen, NY)

    ''Birth of the Cool'' showcases artists with designs on the future  Feb 29, 2008
    New York School Abstract Expressionists such as Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock poured their neuroses out on canvas in drippy, muscular gestures. Bebop jazz artists such as Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker did the same thing in their long, bawling solos. (Boston Globe)

    Forty artists to explore 'Life on Mars' in International  Feb 22, 2008
    " Andrew Carnegie's intent was to bring the best current art to Pittsburgh as well as to attract the broader art world to the city. He also quickly recognized that by exhibiting the "Old Masters of tomorrow," his institution would have the opportunity to build its collection by purchasing work from the show. While not all artist's reputations stand the test of time, there have been notables among those whose works were acquired for the Carnegie collection through the Internationals, including... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)

    The Red Campaign Comes to Sothebys  Feb 18, 2008
    The Damien Hirst-catalyzed auction drew its momentum from high-powered names in the audience (Martha Stewart, Russell Simmons, Queen Noor, Zhang Ziyi) and on the auction block (Jeff Koons, Jasper Johns, Willem de Kooning). Mr. Hirst, known for his embrace of commercial art, hand-wrote letters to about 50 artists asking to contribute work to the auction after Bono, a co-founder of the campaign, proposed the idea during a vacation in France. (New York Times)

    Bono, Hirst auction combines art, charity in NY  Feb 5, 2008
    "It's the cream of the international contemporary art crop," Barker said of the roster that includes Jasper Johns, Willem de Kooning, Richard Prince and Takashi Murakami. Hirst contributed seven works, including "Where there's a will there's a way," a monumental medicine chest sculpture containing hundreds of metal HIV pills. (AlertNet)

    Critics' picks - visual arts  Jan 20, 2008
    Abstract Expressionists such as Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Adolph Gottlieb all experimented with printmaking, and the exhibit "Abstract Expressionist Prints" at the Worcester Art Museum is a treasure trove of such work. The prints are smaller than the large-scale paintings we're used to from Abstract Expressionists. (Boston Globe)

    Get 'em while they're cheap  Jan 13, 2008
    5-million (U.S.) on a Willem de Kooning landscape, and Chicago billionaire Ken Griffin promptly tops him by spending $80-million on a Jasper Johns piece. Canada is just as capable of producing the hot new rich. (Globe and Mail)

    Michael Goldberg, Abstract Expressionist painter  Jan 9, 2008
    Mr. Goldberg was a painter of strong convictions who in his youth was influenced by the gestural Abstract Expressionist mode of older painters such as Franz Kline, Clyfford Still, and Willem de Kooning, and never abandoned it. The improvisational nature of jazz, which he admired, was also important to his work. (Boston Globe)

    Close, To His Heart  Dec 28, 2007
    Friday, December 28, 2007 Last Update: 08:40 AM EST. December 28, 2007 -- A spinal cord blood clot has kept Chuck Close confined to a wheelchair since 1988. (New York Post -- Entertainment)

    Art Market Stays Strong at Auctions  Nov 16, 2007
    Matthew Marks Gallery bought a work by Ellsworth Kelly, and L&M Arts bought several works by Willem de Kooning, artists these galleries represent. Such moves are not uncommon, but dealers typically prefer to get outbid by collectors. (Wall Street Journal)

    De Kooning Painting Leads Phillips's $42 Million Contemporary Art Auction  Nov 16, 2007
    Nov. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Willem de Kooning's late canvas featuring a field of arabesque curves in blue and crimson led a $42 ... One of the bidders was Dominique Levy of L&M Arts, an uptown blue-chip gallery where ``Willem de Kooning: 1981-1986'' is on view through Nov. 17. (Bloomberg -- Europe)

    Warhol picture of former media baron sold for $240000  Nov 15, 2007
    An early untitled painting by Willem de Kooning made only half its estimate, fetching $5. 3m, but Wayne Thiebaud's 1970 painting of coloured lollipops, Seven Suckers, reached $4. (Guardian Unlimited)

    Warhol car crashes sales barrier  Nov 14, 2007
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    $325 million Christie's sale reflects buoyant market  Nov 14, 2007
    There is no common aesthetic ground between Rothko, Warhol, Willem de Kooning, or Lucian Freud, to name only the authors of the five most expensive works sold on Tuesday. Willem de Kooning's "Untitled XXIII," done in 1977, is an enormous canvas 177. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)

    R.B. Kitaj, 74; figurative L.A. painter  Oct 24, 2007
    His early work resembled that of the Abstract Expressionists, particularly Willem de Kooning, who were then in vogue. His art education was again interrupted by service, this time by the peacetime U.S. Army in Germany, where he was stationed after being drafted in 1955. (Los Angeles Times)

    Review: Painter Diebenkorn found inspiration in New Mexico desert  Oct 19, 2007
    Critics persist in referring to Diebenkorn's early work as "abstract expressionism." It does indeed respond to the art of older figures of the New York School, such as Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) and Arshile Gorky (1904-1948). But Diebenkorn's New Mexico-period work pretty consistently lacks the sense of emotional eruption that might justify calling it expressionistic. (San Francisco Chronicle)

    Galleries: Robert Colescott comes of age, in living color  Sep 30, 2007
    Like Matisse, Guston, Willem de Kooning, R. B. Kitaj and others, Colescott has evolved a personal drawing style so eccentric and fluid that it must surprise him as often as it does viewers of his work. It seems to muse on itself as it notates the artist's thoughts and reactions to things. (San Francisco Chronicle)

    University scholars receive distinguished, named professorships  Sep 21, 2007
    He also has published numerous book chapters and journal articles on the work of such artists as Delacroix, Ernst, Giorgio de Chirico and Willem de Kooning. Ubl joins the Chicago faculty after serving as an assistant professor of art history at the University of Basel and a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)

    Latin American masters of soulful straight lines  Sep 15, 2007
    These ideas influence local talents like Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock. New York overtakes Paris as the capital of art, setting the stage for Pop, Minimalism and beyond. (International Herald Tribune)

    Christie's, Sotheby's Offer Sellers $1 Billion of Guarantees  Sep 4, 2007
    For November, Christie's said its guarantees include Warhol's Liz Taylor painting, valued at $25 million to $35 million, and a Willem de Kooning work, estimated at $16 million to $19 million. The owner of a Warhol Elvis image, valued at $10 million to $15 million, declined a fixed price, Christie's said. (Bloomberg)

    Celebs Play Ball For Local Charities  Aug 16, 2007
    "Initially, in the '40s and '50s it was mostly artists that participated, such as Jackson Pollack and Willem de Kooning [and their contemporaries]," said Hope. "It wasn't until the 1960s when the writers showed up. That's when all hell broke loose." The 1970s brought another infusion of talent to the game, he said, including politicians and moving image directors. (Suffolk Life Newspapers, NY)

    Musical Journey  Aug 2, 2007
    " Aside from being inspired by musicians from Bob Marley to Miles Davis and Bob Dylan, Mr. Miller looks to all forms of expression for enlightenment. On his Web site, he lists artist Willem de Kooning, poet Walt Whitman and architect Louis Kahn as additional influences. "I really get the same reaction from any art, it just moves me period," he says. "Different works have different effects something can make you pensive or angry or sad or melancholy but I think overall it's just affecting the... (South Brunswick Post, NJ)

    Stunning debut for Toronto-bound treasures  Jul 11, 2007
    The manuscript was split apart in the 20th century and about 30 years ago, according to Alnoor Merchant of the Ismaili Centre, the Iranian government traded a Willem de Kooning nude to retrieve some of the drawings. The whole scope in Islamic art is represented here, Merchant said, before leading a tour of the exhibit, which is divided into two themes, The Word of God and The Power of the Sovereign. (Globe and Mail)

    Underground art resurfaces  Jun 25, 2007
    But here stood Max's Kansas City, a legendary restaurant and bar where, from 1965 to the mid-1970s, artist Willem de Kooning supped, the Velvet Underground played and Andy Warhol reigned. In case you didn't know, there is now a small black-and-white plaque, hung on the wall, that will tell you so. (USA Today -- News)

    Connect the dots, and you'll get a sense of the bigger picture  Jun 24, 2007
    The chair arm-like forms at the bottom of "Monkey Business" call to mind the critically contested late work of Willem de Kooning. Few painters have borrowed from late de Kooning so far, aware that he sank into dementia while continuing to work. (San Francisco Chronicle)

    Warhol, Hirst Are Snapped Up at Art Basel as Kravis, Pinault Prowl Preview  Jun 13, 2007
    5 million Willem de Kooning from 1986 was unsold. Last year, PaceWildenstein sold a $14 million de Kooning at the fair. (Bloomberg -- Europe)

    When I see an elephant...paint?  Jun 2, 2007
    They produce pieces such as those by 23-year old , which have been compared to the work of abstract expressionists such as Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock. Understandably, some critics have argued that elephant paintings represent no more than random shapes and colors. (The Scientist)

    How Wall Street's Top Earners Live  Jun 2, 2007
    5 million for "Woman III" by Willem de Kooning. One month prior, Kenneth Griffin, managing director of Citadel Investment Group, paid Geffen $80 million for "False Start" by Jasper Johns. (Forbes)

    Field of vision in Southampton  Jun 1, 2007
    Willem de Kooning designed his own East Hampton studio, a vast, white space supported by muscular Y-beams, with a giant glass wall. Roy Lichtenstein converted an old barn into his studio, and was satisfied working by artificial light. (Newsday -- Entertainment)

    SHARP-EDGED MAG  May 27, 2007
    " SHORT SHOTS: Spike Lee is a happy guy and not because he is in those ready-made-ingredient food commercials where the delivery guy mistakes him for a Chinese cook. Spike and Paramount have nabbed Wesley Snipes to play the movie role of the late great James Brown. THE ART world is agog over auctions. Francis Bacon con tinues to make headlines. On top of the record-breaking 52.6 million paid for a Bacon portrait last week comes news of a different artist. Mark Stevens, former art critic of New... (New York Post -- Gossip)

    Rothko painting sets postwar record  May 16, 2007
    The previous record was held by a 1977 Willem de Kooning work of swaths of bright colors called Untitled XXV, which sold for $27 million at a Christies auction last November, Sothebys said. Another work, an untitled painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat from 1981, sold Tuesday for $14. (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)

    Rothko, Bacon Smash Records at Sotheby's `Crazy' $255 Million Art Auction  May 16, 2007
    1 million Willem de Kooning in November. Money has no meaning,'' said Angela Westwater of New York gallery Sperone Westwater, after the Rothko sold. (Bloomberg -- US)

    Joseph Cornell retrospective stresses the tensions between capture and release  Apr 29, 2007
    He went on to exhibit at the Egan Gallery, which also showed art by Willem de Kooning , Mark Rothko , and other Abstract Expressionists, and later, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. He lived to see his works included in "New York Painting and Sculpture, 1940-1970," the landmark exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that Henry Geldzahler curated. (Boston Globe)

    Seattle Art Museum gets massive donations  Apr 2, 2007
    The downtown museum, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year with the May unveiling of its massive remodeling effort, said the collectors' gifts include works by Edward Hopper, Constantin Brancusi, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning and Georgia O'Keeffe. "This is a landmark commitment for SAM and our community," said Mimi Gates, SAM director, in a statement. (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)

    Francis Bacon's $30 Million Painting May Set Record at Sotheby's Sale  Mar 29, 2007
    March 29 (Bloomberg) -- A work by Francis Bacon, a one-time interior designer from Dublin, could set a record at a Sotheby's sale in New York on May 15, beating the auction price of America's Willem de Kooning. Study from Innocent X,'' a 1962 painting of the 17th century pope, will be offered at more than $30 million, the auction house said in a statement to be released today. (Bloomberg -- UK)

    Rothko expected to fetch $46m  Mar 23, 2007
    Should it realise the estimate, White Center, a seven-foot high canvas painted in 1950, will become the most expensive postwar artwork sold at auction, beating the $27m paid for a Willem de Kooning canvas last year. The current record for a Rothko is $22. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)

    Dallas Arts Patron Dead At 85  Mar 18, 2007
    The Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas includes pieces by Willem de Kooning, Paul Gauguin and Pablo Picasso. Nasher served on the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities under the last three presidents. (KWTX.com, TX)

    Art collector Nasher, namesake of Durham museum, dies  Mar 17, 2007
    " The real estate developer was also considered a pioneer in placing sculptures in commercial retail complexes, including the NorthPark Center in Dallas.For the Nashers, collecting art "was very much a joy and a passion, but also very personal," his daughter Nancy Nasher told The Associated Press in 2005, when the Nasher Museum of Art opened at Duke University in Durham, N.C. "There was no grand plan (Foster's Daily Democrat)

    Art collector and patron Nasher dead at 85  Mar 17, 2007
    The Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas includes pieces by Willem de Kooning, Paul Gauguin and Pablo Picasso. Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. (FOX Carolina, SC)

    Melvin B. Nessel at 87; noted businessman, philanthropist  Mar 11, 2007
    Years earlier, Mr. Nessel and Barbara Nessel gave the museum art they had collected for a half century, including works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall, Joan Miro, and Willem de Kooning. "I realized they would have more use for it and it would mean much more in Palm Beach because they were lacking at that time in the late 1980s, more than in Boston," Mr. Nessel told the Associated Press in March 2003. (Boston Globe)

    Corcoran shows own Hirshhorns  Mar 11, 2007
    From the 650-plus pieces given by Mrs. Hirshhorn, Jonathan Binstock, exhibit curator and Corcoran curator of contemporary art, chose 67 works, including many by Alexander Calder, Mr. Albers, Willem de Kooning and Larry Rivers. Mr. Binstock focused on works by Mr. Albers and his wife Anni Albers he features the latter's unusual "Sunny" (1965), a "pictorial weaving" in the smallish entry gallery at the back of the ground floor. (Washington Times, DC)

    A Vivid Account  Mar 3, 2007
    REVIEW / SFMOMA exhibition demonstrates how large Picasso loomed over American art. " It sends the visitor away with a sense of every modern artwork as the product of many minds, however many hands may have formed it. Picasso and American Art: Paintings, sculpture and works on paper. Through May 28. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 151 Third St., San Francisco. (415) 357-4000, . E-mail Kenneth Baker at . This article appeared on page E - 1 of the San Francisco Chronicle FromColma Buick... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)

    Dallas museum features contemporary works from three major donors  Feb 10, 2007
    The first part features abstract expressionist paintings by artists including Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock. It opened in the fall and will remain on display through April Eighth. (KSLA.com, LA)

    Intellect and Jasper Johns (Joanna Shaw-Eagle)  Feb 3, 2007
    Mr. Johns, who was born in 1930, rejected the sweeping, oversized canvases of the 1940s and 1950s by abstract expressionists such as Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. Mr. Johns, however, refused to align himself with other groups of artists or to be categorized in any way. (Washington Times)

    Picasso's Influence On American Artists  Jan 22, 2007
    The idea is to show Picasso's influence in this country by displaying his works juxtaposed with some by the likes of Stuart Davis, Willem de Kooning and Jasper Johns ... But plenty of artists were moved to expand on Picasso's themes, especially after seeing his 1927 painting "The Studio." Works by Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner and David Smith all on display at the Whitney show how American artists were 00004000 taking steps forward. (CBS News)

    Allan Stone, 74, art patron, expert  Jan 15, 2007
    He had bought a Willem de Kooning drawing for $250 while at Harvard, which prompted his father to cut off funds for a while. In a soon-to-be-released documentary film by his daughter Olympia, Mr. Stone says of the art business, "I couldn't say that I intellectually decided to go into it. I sort of got sucked into it, sort of the way a junkie gets sucked into a heroin parlor.". (Boston Globe)

    It's a guy thing  Jan 15, 2007
    The massive Willem de Kooning oil painting hanging on one wall sets the tone, which is carried through the furnishings, the flowers, and even the dust jackets on books that line the shelves. My wife and I spoke sparingly and in low tones as we waited briefly for our treatments in big -- white -- comfortable chairs. (Boston Globe)

    Rockefeller Firm, Citigroup Tell Would-Be Buffetts How to Give Money Away  Jan 12, 2007
    3 million by selling works including paintings by Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, two wooden boxes by Joseph Cornell and ``Sailcloth,'' a 1949 Willem de Kooning oil that once hung in their Fifth Avenue apartment's library. Jonas says he picked nursing as his beneficiary because he wanted a cause that had been overlooked by others. (Bloomberg)

    The afterlife of influence  Jan 1, 2007
    This early mix of European sophistication and American energy sets the stage for the trio of migr s -- Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning, and John Graham -- who would translate Picasso's ideas into the first truly influential school of American painting, Abstract Expressionism, in the 1940s. We watch as Picasso's fractured and angular spatial framework gradually morphs into the Americans' more sweeping and tactile gestures. (Boston Globe)

    The art of the deals  Dec 30, 2006
    He's not after post-World War II American painters, but he admires Jackson Pollock, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Willem De Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg and Frank Stella. And the current lust after contemporary art doesn't interest him. (Cape Cod Times, MA)

    IT'S A DUCK-AND-COVER REPORT  Dec 12, 2006
    December 12, 2006 -- 'IT IS disastrous to name ourselves," said Willem de Kooning. "The Iraq Study Group Report" is selling like hot cakes and perhaps will rival "The 9/11 Commission Report," which sold more than 1 million copies. The Washington Post did a story yesterday examining the dry-as-dust cover from the book's publisher, Vintage. They asked, in the spirit of fun-in-publishing, if perhaps it shouldn't have had a snappier type cover to lure readers. One satirical idea was that it be... (New York Post -- Gossip)

    Full Story  Dec 12, 2006
    THE RUSHDIES: BABE MAGNETS. - New York Post Online Edition: Seven. (New York Post -- Gossip)

    Prices Rocket at Art Basel Miami Beach; Top Sales Estimate Is $400 Million  Dec 12, 2006
    Dec. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Almost everything, from a teeny gray Jasper Johns to a poorly painted orange-and-purple 1987 Willem de Kooning, was offered as top of the line at the fifth annual Art Basel Miami Beach. Sticker prices were higher than even an auction-besotted art world anticipated. (Bloomberg -- US)

    Pine Plains loses internationally renowned artist  Dec 8, 2006
    Again, the French press praised his work, which he labeled "lyrical expressionism." When Jordan returned to the United States, the art scene was focused on the work on abstract painters such as Jackson Pollack and Willem de Kooning. Jordan, however, found their work to be the antithesis of what he believed art to be. (Pine Plains Register Herald, NY)

    Roy Newell, 92, noted abstract painter  Dec 4, 2006
    NEW YORK -- Painter Roy Newell, one of the original American abstract expressionists and a favorite of artist Willem de Kooning, died of cancer last month in Manhattan, his wife said. He was 92. (Boston Globe)

    Dead since '62, Monroe remains alluring  Dec 4, 2006
    Case in point: Life as a Legend: Marilyn Monroe, the exhibit on view at the Boca Raton Museum of Art beginning Wednesday, a considerable collection of 300 photographs by camera artists such as Milton Greene, Cecil Beaton and Richard Avedon, and pieces of art by Willem de Kooning, Andy Warhol, and many others. The exhibit captures both Monroe the woman, as well as Monroe the metaphorical idea. (The Palm Beach Post)

    Abstract painter Roy Newell dead at 92  Dec 3, 2006
    The Times said Willem de Kooning considered him a friend, once giving one of his works to the Guggenheim Museum, one of the few by Newell hanging in a major museum. . (Washington Times, DC)

    Canadian art proves it has a hot market  Nov 29, 2006
    Earlier this month at Christie's in New York, $491-million U.S. worth of art changed hands in one evening, the costliest art auction in history, with records set for the likes of Gustav Klimt, Andy Warhol and Willem De Kooning. Still, the 2006 fall season has showed brisk sales for Canadian works in the $20,000 to $75,000 range, including smaller pieces by David Milne. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)

    Schiele painting to leave UM soon  Nov 25, 2006
    That collector, who over the past two years has lent paintings by Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky and Franz Kline to the university for display, was not the same person who bought the Schiele painting; however, he was nstrumental in encouraging the buyer of the Schiele painting to loan the work to the University of Montana, said Barb Koostra, director of the Montana Museum of Art and Culture. The painting was accompanied on its trip to Missoula by another major work, Anselm Kiefer's 1996... (Missoulian, MT)

    Hong Kong billionaire pays record for Warhol Chairman Mao painting  Nov 17, 2006
    The sale of post-war and contemporary art also included works by Willem de Kooning, Clyfford Still, Sam Francis and Sol Lewitt. Christie's said the sale total had topped 239 million US dollars, breaking through the 200 million barrier mark for a sale of post war and contemporary for the first time. (Monsters and Critics.com)

    Warhol's Mao sells for record £9m at auction  Nov 17, 2006
    The largest sale of the auction on Wednesday was Untitled XXV, a 1977 abstract by Willem de Kooning, selling for $27m, a world record for postwar art. The buyer's name was not released. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)

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