All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
HE idolises Damien Hirst, the world's second most expensive living artist after Jasper Johns and Willem de Kooning. But there is not much to link the two sculptors other than their love for carving.
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
New York's Jewish Museum exhibits the superstar abstract painters (Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning), the critics that built their reputations and the rest of the artists who created the American postwar art ascendancy
Down the avenue (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
... Gala (1935) Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's Street Dresden (1907) Andrew Wyeth's Christina's World (1948) Willem de Kooning's Woman II (1952)
Adland (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
Thijs Biersteker and Karian Weijers from the Willem de Kooning Academy won the gold in Young Lions print today. Silver went to Selim Unlusoy and Bahadirhan Peksen from Lowe Istanbul. Germany took bronze thanks to Sina Malosczyk and Nathalie Krüger from KNSK Werbeagentur GmbH. Tonight's the Direct and Promo Lions awards ceremony, judging is currently in progress.
Slow Painting (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
... Like Rauschenberg, who as a young man spent three weeks erasing a drawing he had acquired from Willem de Kooning (the result is a white sheet of paper bearing the faint, ghostly shadow of its former markings), Twombly, in Serota’s words, evokes rather than describes. Nowhere is his genius for evocation - for suggesting the mood or feeling of a place or a moment - more apparent than...
The Moment (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
... about the $15 million in mad money it would take to buy the rarely available “Woman” painting by Willem de Kooning that Feigen has in its booth this year. And like everyone else, Los Angeles dealer Michael Kohn was stunned by a fantastic pairing of Barnett Newman paintings and Alberto Giacometti sculptures in one of the Beyeler’s permanent collection galleries.
