Jackson Pollock
Scientist Reveals Pollocks Are Fake
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Nevermind the Pollocks! A bunch of paintings discovered in 2005 were thought to be crafted by Jackson Pollock, but aren't authentic, according to a forensic scientist who made the announcement yesterday in Manhattan.
He discovered last fall that many of the 32 works contained paints and materials that were not available until after Mr. Pollock's death in 1956. Alex Matter, the owner of the paintings, was sure to keep him quiet about it for the past year, though. read more »
Color Them Beautiful: Marden, Scully Paint Politely
Brice Marden
“Who is Brice Marden painting for?” That’s what one veteran painter asked after vi read more »
Color Them Beautiful: Marden, Scully Paint Politely
“Who is Brice Marden painting for?” That’s what one veteran painter asked after visiting the B read more »
Smooth Around the Edges: Pollock Thrives on Paper
Jackson Pollock
No Limits, Just Edges: Jackson Pollock Paintings on Paper, at the Solomon R. read more »
Serendipitous Convergence Hooks Up Sax and Splatter
Ornette Coleman stands before Jackson Pollock’s Number 13 (1949), one of the more poetic splatter read more »
Serendipitous Convergence Hooks Up Sax and Splatter
Michaela Deiss
Looking in the mirror: Coleman ponders Pollock at the Guggenheim.
Ornette Coleman stands before Jackson Pollock’s Number 13 (1949), one of the more poetic splat read more »
Art and Artists on a Pedestal— In Town and in the Country
Martha Updike
Cautious John Updike.
On Sunday night, at the dead center of the Guggenheim Museum’s spiral cavity, the performance read more »
Art and Artists on a Pedestal- In Town and in the Country
On Sunday night, at the dead center of the Guggenheim Museum’s spiral cavity, the performance arti read more »
Painter Joan Snyder Takes On the Big Boys: Pollock, de Kooning
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Shocking, graphic, memorable: Joan Snyder
What, for other artists, might be considered excess—excess energy, excess emotion, excess ambi read more »
Painter Megan Olson Has Double Vision: Abstract and Realist
The American painter Megan Olson (born 1971) calls the current exhibition of her paintings Still Mov read more »
Seldom-Cited Master Hans Hofmann Returns To Reacquaint Viewers
There are currents of influence on the contemporary art scene so pervasive that, in retrospect, they read more »
Currently Hanging
Second Career for Martin Mull:Maker of Hefty Pomo Art
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Second Career for Martin Mull: Maker of Hefty Pomo Art
Here's a recipe for disaster: Mix the efficiency of James Rosenquist's neo-Dadaist commentaries on c read more »
Raiding the Storage Racks: The Guggenheim's Good Stuff
What a thrill it is to visit the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum right now. You heard me: thrill . read more »
Currently Hanging
Raiding the Storage Racks:The Guggenheim's Good Stuff
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Rambunctious Bultman: He Missed the Photo-Op
Charlie Finch, art critic for ArtNet.Com , recently described me as someone who "sees every work of read more »
Updike Picks Up His Brush, Whips Off a Dazzling Portrait
Seek My Face , by John Updike. Alfred A. Knopf, 288 pages, $23.
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No Use Crying Over Keanu … In Pollock Film Imitates Art
No Use Crying Over KeanuWhen Hollywood tires of making new bad movies, they just remake the old ones read more »
The Arrogance and the Insecurity: Pollock's Not-So-Sordid Story
Ed Harris' Pollockis swarming with multiple credits, including a screenplay by Barbara Turner and
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Pollock's Widow Krasner Is No Postmodernist
It was to be expected that when the time came to organize a definitive retrospective exhibition of t read more »
A Paul Georges Exhibit Recalls Figurative 50's
There are painters who, though they have been showing their work in New York for decades, are still read more »
The Latest Gasp: Morris Louis' Abstractions
It is good to see the canvases of Morris Louis (1912-1962) at a time when contemporary abstract pain read more »
Mormon's Family Album: Pollock, Reagan, Steve Young
In recent years, Deitch Project, a gallery in SoHo, has made a specialty of exhibiting the we-are-th read more »
Morgan Library Triumphs With 20th-Century Show
With certain exhibitions you know you are in for an extraordinary experience the moment you take you read more »
A Painted Life of Turmoil for Cuban Exile Alfonzo
The late Carlos Alfonzo, whose paintings are currently the subject of an exhibition at the Hirshhorn read more »
Gaga Over Guggenheim's Frankenthaler Exhibition
Around certain paintings there accumulates a historical aura that makes them even more of a legend t read more »
