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AMERICAN ABSTRACT - Real Jackson Pollock.
by PETER SCHJELDAHL
Half a century ago, on August 11, 1956, an Oldsmobile convertible driven by Jackson Pollock, who was drunk, hit a tree in the Springs, killing the artist and a passenger. It’s a dismal enough anniversary—marked with scant attention by the finest art show in New York this summer, “No Limits, Just Edges: Jackson Pollock Paintings on Paper,” at the Guggenheim—but glamorous, in its way. Pollock, like other d...  Read more  25.07.
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With Thomson gone, will art market stay bullish?
GUY DIXON
Kenneth Thomson had a simple system for bidding on major works of art.
He and his advisers gave a number from 1 to 10 to a particular work, making it clear how adamantly his bidder should go after the piece, particularly if it was destined to become part of his collection at the new, renovated Art Gallery of Ontario, said Dennis Reid, senior curator of Canadian art at the AGO. Thomson was continuing to acquir... Read more 15.06. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Character studies
Portraits are about more than just capturing a face. They are about capturing a life. That's why they are such an invaluable aid to the biographer, says Margaret Forster. Click here to see highlights from the National Portrait Gallery's collection.
During the whole of the last two years, I've sat down at my desk each morning and stared hard at a copy of a self-portrait by Gwen John. I've had it propped up, centre stage as it were, so that ... Read more 13.06. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Picasso in Madrid.
by PETER SCHJELDAHL
Pablo Picasso is having a tough summer in Madrid. He can handle it, though with nothing like his usual insolent panache—you can feel him sweat. The occasion—“Picasso: Tradition and Avant-Garde,” a double exhibition at the glorious Prado and at the Reina Sofía, the desultory national modern-art museum—is purely celebratory in intent, marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the patriation of “Guernica,” after, at the artist’... Read more 13.06. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
BY BOB CURTRIGHT
The Wichita Eagle
The question in Steven Dietz's "Inventing Van Gogh" is whether great art requires great suffering. Would Vincent Van Gogh be as revered today if his colorful, muscular messes had been painted by some happy-go-lucky husband and father?
Would he even be remembered if he hadn't cut off his ear and committed suicide at 37? Is the myth more important than the man?
Dietz's provocative play, given a vigorous Midwest p... Read more 24.02. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mary Martin ’06 Receives Second Place Prize
Mary Martin's "Sunday" earned her the second place prize in the annual College Art Show. Her painting, along with 45 other works, will be on display at the Aurora through the end of March.
The artwork of seven Holy Cross students has been selected for the second Worcester Consortium College Art Show hosted by ARTSWorcester, a community-based arts organization, at its gallery at the Aurora.
The show, which ... Read more 24.02.
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