PreviewExhibitions
Beyond the wall: a golden period of exchange between Mexican and US artists is revisited in new show
Whitney Museum exhibition will explore the enduring influence of artists such as David Alfaro Siqueiros on US counterparts including Jackson Pollock and Philip Guston
PreviewExhibitions
Barbican show in London aims to raise Lee Krasner’s profile
Exhibition continues the re-evaluation of the Abstract Expressionist who spent too long in the shadow of husband Jackson Pollock
News
Rio’s Museum of Modern Art finally sells Pollock for around $13m
For a struggling institution, the price is short of earlier estimates
NewsLaw
Widower takes aim at chairman of Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Husband of deceased leader argues in court filings that chairman strong-armed his way into the post
ReviewBooks
Jackson Pollock's art gets lost in academic theory in new book
This scholarly overview of the artist’s work is modishly opaque
PreviewExhibitions
Jackson Pollock and Thornton Dial given equal billing in Met exhibition
Highlights from Souls Grown Deep Foundation acquisition go on show among New York museum's collection
NewsArt market
Kerry James Marshall sets $21m record for a living African American artist at Sotheby's sale
Rapper P. Diddy identified as buyer of the Chicago-based painter's Past Times
NewsArt market
Sotheby's to offer Jackson Pollock drip painting in May sale series
The 1949 work could surpass the artist's auction record; reflects consignors' confidence in market
News
Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro to sell Brazil’s only Pollock on public view
The museum says the move is necessary for its long-term survival, while others protest the decision as “absurd”
NewsConservation & Preservation
Drip dry: Moca LA to restore Pollock painting in its galleries
The museum aims to open the cleaning process to the public, with a conservator on hand to answer questions
ArchiveForgeries
Knoedler forgery scandal grows
The gallery is being sued over an alleged fake Pollock, sold for $17m in 2007
ArchiveLee Krasner
Books: Lee Krasner biography shows her at the centre of her own life, for once
Krasner was more than Pollock’s acolyte, argues Gail Levin
ArchivePollock-Krasner Foundation
New president for Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Samuel Sachs II replaces long-time president Eugene V. Thaw
ArchiveMuseums
MoMA's sustained deaccessioning continues
The museum is selling paintings by Picasso, Pollock, Léger and De Chirico, among others, at Christie's next month
ArchiveNew York
What's On in '03: Abstract expressionist Richard Pousette-Dart at Knoedler & Company
His mythic heads and forms appear in paintings and drawings (1935-42) on show in New York
ArchiveThe Art Dealers Association of America
2003 ADAA Art Show review
It was inevitable that attendance and sales would be down with current economic instability, but overall sales were good and quality was high
ArchiveArtist interview
Interview with artist Harold Stevenson, a Jean Cocteau of Idabel, Oklahoma
The high camp survivor who was friends with all the legends
ArchiveJackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock at the Tate Gallery
Exhibition in London until 6 June.
ArchiveExhibitions
Behind the scenes at MoMA with John Elderfield and Kirk Varnedoe
Exhibitions, projects, budgets, and attendance at the Museum of Modern Art in New York
ArchiveFilms
Art on Screen from “Lust for Life” to “I Shot Andy Warhol”
David D’Arcy reviews the rash of films about art and artists now being made in the US
ArchiveBooks
Books: Dangerous (artistic) liaisons examined
A poet married to a painter reviews a survey of creative partnerships including Ernst and Carrington, Pollock and Krasner, Rodin and Claudel, and more
CommentPolitics
Vital artistic exchanges will be stifled by Trump's travel ban
The amicus brief signed by more than 100 museums should shame the justices of the US Supreme Court
Ben Luke