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The Jackson Pollock Code: Did the painter hide his name within a legendary 1943 painting?

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:52:23 GMT

So contends art historian Henry Adams in an article in the November 2009 issue of Smithsonian magazine.
Source: bookofjoe

Sports Watch: Is Michael Vaughan the next Jackson Pollock?

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:41:56 GMT

He regrets his "transgressions" and says he is "far from perfect", but he still managed to put the blame on the Press on his website. "I have been dismayed to realise the full extent of what tabloid scrutiny really means," he said.
Source: Times Online

A Star, a Soap and the Meaning of Art

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:54:35 GMT

By James Franco I was recently treated to an early prototype of a dessert that Marina Abramović, the "grandmother of performance art," created with the pastry chef Dominique Ansel.
Source: Wall Street Journal

Let's Renegotiate! 'Abstraction and the Ready-Made Gesture' at the Kitchen

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:59:15 GMT

Before there was a modernist canon, populist critics relied on such derisive metaphors as "explosion in a shingle factory" to describe Duchamp's 1912 Nude Descending a Staircase.
Source: Village Voice

Michael Vaughan uses cricket ball to make art

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:15:17 GMT

Former England cricket captain Michael Vaughan is hoping to knock art critics for six after switching the crease for the canvas. The 35-year-old batsman has currently got an exhibition of his abstract works on show at a Cardiff art gallery.
Source: Newslite.tv

Art? Even Tracey Emin said it was rubbish

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:27:57 GMT

A gallery visitor ponders a chair by Tracy Emin Photo: PA For most viewers, Monday night's opening of the School of Saatchi was a chance to snigger at the pretensions of the art world.
Source: The Telegraph

Quoted in 'Pandora: Scumbag College digs get a market makeover'

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:01:54 GMT

said in The Independent:

Damien Hirst meets Jackson Pollock

Quoted in 'Travels in Cyberspace: The Monday Report'

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:51:42 GMT

said in New York Times Travel:

After the day-trippers have left the island, a handful of guests have free rein at Benesse House, able to wander the halls at their leisure examining pieces by Jackson Pollock, Jasper Johns, Frank Stella and other greats in a strikingly modern space designed by Tadao Ando, one of Japan’s most famous architects.

Irving Kriesberg obituary

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:53:22 GMT

Irving Kriesberg was influenced by Matisse.
Source: Guardian Unlimited

Richters Earthquake

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:19:54 GMT

(Photo: Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris) Decades ago, Gerhard Richter found a painterly philosopher’s stone.
Source: New York Magazine

Photo from Getty Images by AFP/Getty Images

Mon, 11 May 2009 13:37:00 GMT

Britain's Prince William gives a speech in front of a tapestry of Picasso's Guernica during a tour of the Whitechapel Gallery in London, on May 11, 2009.

Photo from Getty Images by AFP/Getty Images

Mon, 11 May 2009 13:33:00 GMT

Britain's Prince William (R) stands in front of an artwork entitled "Girl with Roses" by artist Lucian Freud during a tour of the Whitechapel Gallery in London, on May 11, 2009.

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