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...Standing Woman is one of five works (the others are sculptural pieces by Heinz Mack and G?nther Uecker, and paintings by Jackson Pollock and Lucio Fontana) that have traveled all the way from Venice to Melbourne for the National Gallery of Victoria?s blockbuster show, "Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now," which opened June...
...escape the war, that she hit the jackpot. One of the young artists she set her sights on was a custodian and art preparator at her uncle's then-budding museum. She put him on a monthly stipend and encouraged him to explore his uniquely abstract style. "Jackson Pollock was Peggy's greatest achievement," Rylands says. "He was to Peggy what Kandinsky was to Solomon. She did everything...
...Sudan-linked oil company Sinopec. Laconi said that the position the incoming council will take on the Sudan divestment issue has “yet to be determined” by the representatives. The other graduate students elected to serve in the meeting May 16 include Ashley R. Pollock as vice president for communications, James Wang as vice president for internal operations, Adam Cohen-Aslatei as vice president for events, and Jason Rafferty as vice president for student advocacy. —Staff writer Kevin Zhou can be reached at kzhou@fas.harvard.edu...
When the six band members of the Histrionics don their Jackson Pollock-inspired "drip" suits for a performance at Melbourne's Australian Centre for the Moving Image this week, there's sure to be an art student or two in the house. And they'll feel quite at home as these self-proclaimed kings of "Concept-Art-Heritage-Rock-Covers" move swiftly through their set. With their razor-witted reinterpretations, AC/DC's '70s classic T.N.T. becomes Nam June Paik, named after the grandfather of video art; Devo's Whip It barely misses a beat as an anthem to Abstract Expressionism...
...heart of constant disputes over "deaccessioning"--what museums and other institutions do when they liquidate part of their collections. Though as a practice deaccessioning is nothing new, the outlandishly overheated art market of recent years has made it newly irresistible. At a time when a Jackson Pollock or a Gustav Klimt can go for about $140 million, it's no surprise that one institution after another has begun to see its "permanent collection" as just so much movable merchandise. But art is no ordinary inventory. Briskly disposing of it doesn't always sit well with people who like to visit...