As Pollock approached mythic status, in the eyes of some critics, Krasner was cast in his shadow. She persisted, earning the title “The Mother Courage of Abstract Expressionism,” bestowed by critic ...

Krasner was typecast as the wife of the breakout artist of the Abstract Expressionist movement, no matter how renegade her own work. At the Met this fall, she emerges from his giant shadow. By Amei ...

What the American painter saw during his trips to Florence molded his vision and his understanding of space and color.

The artists of Nature Morte gallery, Hayv Kahraman’s painted libations, Jesse Wiedel’s screwball American dream, the late Nona Olabisi’s homegrown muralism, and more.

Past Continuous," a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art will examine the lives and careers of both artists, who met in New York in the 1940s ...

The Met will give a joint spotlight to Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock in a blockbuster exhibition this fall. The show stresses that the artists were equals, despite Pollock’s unmatched fame. More ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died Tuesday at age 84, is being remembered as "a role model for a generation," in the words of Marc Morial, the president of National Urban League, the civil rights ...

In 1988, the Reverend Jesse Jackson ended his outsider campaign for president with a stirring speech for the history books: "We must never surrender. America will get better and better. Keep hope ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Rev. Jesse Jackson in 2021. (AP) The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a longtime, preeminent civil rights leader in the United States, with ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson was a civil rights icon, Baptist minister and two-time Democratic presidential candidate. A protege of Martin Luther King Jr., Jackson fought on the front lines of the battle ...