The opening panel of wall text at the UC Berkeley Art Museum retrospective for painter Hans Hofmann declares he was “one of the most important figures of postwar American art.” If he is not as well ...

Should a single Damien Hirst painting cost more than an entire Old Masters sale? Should Adrian Ghenie’s auction record stand higher than Frida Kahlo’s? The strange, fickle, mostly subjective nature of ...

Artist Frank Stella sang his praises in his American Heritage magazine essay, “The Artist of the Century.” Students in America’s art schools today are reaping what he sowed through his 40 years of ...

In the realm of high-modern abstract painting, the color purple rarely gets the spotlight. The hue doesn’t have its own Picasso phase, like rose or blue. And let’s face it: Jackson Pollock’s “Lavender ...

Television writer and producer Norman Lear has donated a 1962 Hans Hofmann painting to Bennington College to fund a new scholarship focused on social justice and activism. After exhibiting the ...

Norman Lear is keeping it "All in the Family" donating a piece of artwork back to Bennington College after purchasing it from the school in 1986. The famed television producer of the 1970s-era ...

In 1963, Hans Hofmann, age eighty-three, arranged to give forty-five paintings and a very substantial sum of money to the University of California at Berkeley. The funds were intended to help build a ...

Bringing together nearly seventy works spanning the entirety of the artist’s career, this exhibition presents a fresh and eye-opening examination of Hans Hofmann’s prolific and innovative artistic ...

A life in art -- The young artist in Germany -- The Paris years -- Return to Munich and a new role teaching avant-garde art -- Journey to America -- Hofmann and the culture of modern painting -- ...

Hans Hofmann, Artist/ Teacher, Teacher/Artist: Documentary. Directed by Madeline Amgott. 1 p.m. Sunday on KQED. "What's on HBO?" will be the first question to enter the mind of the cable subscriber ...

Hofmann's personal papers are augmented by a large selection of printed matter, including exhibition catalogs, articles, news clippings, and monographs about Hofmann and modern art, as well as ...

Students will learn about several Abstract Expressionists and identify the ways in which they use color, line and form to express themselves. Compare and Contrast Other Artists With Hans Hofmann ...