Jackson Pollock

Iran Confiscates Jackson Pollock Painting ... From Itself

The Huffington Post | Sasha von Oldershausen | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Video, Jackson Pollock, Jackson Pollock Iran, Mural on Indian Red Ground, Iran, Tehran, Iran Art, Iran Art Museum, Tehran Iran, World News

It’s not your average art heist: One of Iran’s most valuable pieces of art, a painting by U.S. artist Jackson Pollock worth $250 million, has been...

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Neuroscience Meets Ancient Japanese Scrolls

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Video, Jackson Pollock, Neuroscience, Art Meets Science, Neurons, Monk, Greg Dunn, Edo Scrolls, Meditation, Japanese Art, Japanese Scrolls, Slideexpand, Minimalism, Arts News

Greg Dunn is a neuroscience PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania and an artist passionate about Japanese minimalist scrolls. While these inte...

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'God Bless America' At West End: HuffPost DC Top 5 For May 14, 2012

The Huffington Post | Brandon Wetherbee | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Herta Müller, Jackson Pollock, Video, The Last Hour of Elena and Nicolae Ceausescu (Die Letzten Tage Der Ceausescus), Goethe-Institute, God Bless America, Freak Dance, West End Cinema, 8th Annual Testy Fest, Bobcat Goldthwait, Buzz Bissinger, Jc Brooks and the Uptown Sound, Matt Besser, Kittie, DC News

TOP 5 PICKS FOR MONDAY, MAY 14 1. "God Bless America" At West End Cinema It's horrible outside so today is all about movies. Bobcat Goldthwait's n...

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How Much Would You Pay For A Painting?

Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Fire and Color 1, Art Auction, Jackson Pollock, Video, Art and Money, Christie's Auction, Postwar Art, Yves Klein, Slidewide, Klein Blue, Christies, Dangerous Painting, Arts News

Yves Klein stunned the art world with his monochromatic pieces at the nexus of minimalism and performance art, where his signature International Klein...

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The Knoedler's Meltdown: Inside the Forgery Scandal and Federal Investigations

Vanity Fair | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Knoedler, May Issue, Paintings, Vanity Fair, Forgery, Arts, Untitled 1950, Gallery, Jackson Pollock, Scandal, News, 2012, Arts News

"The works are of a five-star quality. Maybe a few are four-star, but mostly five-star, which is why they've stirred such attention," Ann Freedman, former director of the Knoedler gallery, tells contributing editor Michael Shnayerson of the recent David Herbert collection.

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Watch: How To Paint Like A Hair Metal Rocker

Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Heavy Metal, Video, Jackson Pollock, Viral Videos, Youtube, Hair Metal, Willow Smith, Heavy Metal Painting, Arts News

This may not be the most efficient way to paint a wall, but we're sure Mötley Crüe would approve... Three Romanian heavy metal fans have unleashe...

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Rediscovering the Painting (and Influence) of Willem de Kooning's Lover

Asher Edelman | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Mary Abbot, Willem De Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Abstract Expressionism, Southampton, Rothko, Motherwell, Gorky, Willem De Kooning's Lover, Arts News

Imagine an overlooked protagonist in the narrative of Abstract Expressionism, a crucial figure in the New York Post-war art scene whose story is only now surfacing. That artist is Mary Abbott.

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Martin Klimas' Cymatic Paint Sculptures

Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: Kraftwerk, Jackson Pollock, Kllimas, Art Meets Science, Velvet Underground, Abstract Expressionism, Sound Sculptures, Martin Klimas, Painting With Sound, Miles Davis, Philip Glass, 3d, Arts News

What does sound look like? Martin Klimas provides a stunning hypothesis by making paint dance to the beat as he captures his splatter sculptures on ca...

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Celebrity Collector: Richard Grieco

Reyne Haines | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Jackson Pollock, Reyne Haines, 21 Jump Street, Harley-Davidson, Celebrity Style, Art Collectors, Richard Grieco, Celebrity News

As if good looks and the creative gene weren't enough to peek my curiosity -- his love of Harley Davidson's and Corvettes were the icing on the cake. I caught up with Grieco recently to talk about his passion for painting, and to ask "When do I get a ride on one of those bikes!"

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Happy 100th Birthday, Jackson Pollock

Mat Gleason | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Contemporary Art, Art, Jackson Pollock, Jackson Pollock Paintings, 20th Century Artists, Jackson Pollock Art, Jackson Pollock Birthday, Arts News

If you can measure a man by his enemies, Pollock makes Picasso and Warhol look like lovingly muddied mediocrities.

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Helen Frankenthaler as a One-Hit Wonder

David Galenson | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Maya Lin, Clement Greenberg, Jackson Pollock, Helen Frankenthaler, Jack Kerouac, One Hit Wonder Artists, Arts News

Frankenthaler might appear as a classic example of a one-hit wonder, joining the long list of important artists whose career was dominated by a single early work.

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WATCH: Talented Monkey Is Next Big Thing In Abstract Art

Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Andy Warhol, Monkey Artist, Jackson Pollock, Video, Abstract Art, Primates, Pop Art, Weird Art, Pockets Warhol, Joan Mitchell, Monkeys, Odd Art, Arts News

Many great artist personas get 'discovered' from their eccentric appearances before they even make any great art. Such was the case with Pockets Warho...

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New York Art Critic Offers Money, Sex for Fake Painting

Lisa Derrick | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Eric Doerringer, Marian Goodman, Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock, Jerry Saltz, Abstract Expressionist, Modern Art, Gerhard Richter, Arts News

New York Magazine's art critic Jerry Saltz loves Gerhard Richter's paintings. A lot. So much so that the three-time Pulitzer nominee offered either $1,000 or a sex act to any artist who could make him a replica.

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Astoria Characters: The Pane-Air Painter

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 12.25.2011

For three decades, Berch and his brushes have been beautifying Astoria, and for three decades, he's stayed pretty much behind the glass.

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Art Dealer Arrested For $2 Million Of Fake Art

Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Jackson Pollock, Forgeries, Vincent Van Gogh, Guggenheim, Fbi, Rothko, Van Gogh, Moma, Art Fake, Art Scam, Monet, Art Crime, Vero Beach, Forged, Matthew Taylor, Florida, Museum of Modern Art, Claude Monet, Pollock, Art Scandal, Fake, Arts News

Is the signature on your Monet a little too legible? It could be a fake; word is they're going around. A former art dealer was arrested in South F...

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WATCH: Top Artists Of The 20th Century

Posted 11.02.2011

Read More: Andy Warhol Art, Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, Video, Jackson Pollock Art, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Top Artists of the 20th Century, Pablo Picasso Painting, Best Artists, Arts News

Here at HuffPost Arts, as art history nerds, we delight in sharing our passion with you and we hope the video below will be both informational for art...

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PHOTOS: Top Power Couples In The Arts

Posted 10.27.2011

Read More: Video, Jackson Pollock, Willem De Kooning, Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei, Lu Qing, Salvador Dali, Elaine De Kooning, Gala Dali, Ai Weiwei, Lee Krausner, Arts News

In this slideshow below, we look at seven art super-couples, historical and current, in all of their glory. We've got Pollock and Krasner, the Dalis, ...

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Richard Prince Covers Jackson Pollock at Guild Hall

Regina Weinreich | Posted 10.14.2011

Read More: Andres Serrano, Jackson Pollock, Simon De Pury, Guild Hall, Barbara Kruger, Martha Stewart, Richard Prince, Eric Fishl, Bryan Hunt, William Wegman, Michael Lynne, Alec Baldwin, Anne Livet, Arts News

To imagine Richard Prince doing drip paintings in honor of Jackson Pollock is too linear a concept for what Prince does in Guild Hall's new exhibition.

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We Bet You Don't Know These 10 Odd Facts About Famous Artists

Posted 09.16.2011

Read More: Jackson Pollock, Vegetarian, Salvador Dali, Auguste Rodin, Leonardo Da Vinci, Renaissance, Paul Gauguin, UK Arts, Henri Matisse, Monet, Video, Art, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Slideshow, Peter Paul Rubens, Damien Hirst, Slidepollajax, Arts News

You might think that since the artists included in the slideshow below are famous, you know everything about them (and perhaps some of you do). But we...

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Addicted Artists We've Lost: A Tribute To Betty Ford

Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Betty Ford Dead, Betty Ford Clinic, Jackson Pollock, Betty Ford Dies, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Diane Arbus, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, John Cassavetes, Charlie Parker, Betty Ford, Arts News

With Betty Ford's death last week, the world at large lost a great humanitarian. But the art world, in particular, lost a benefactor in the former Fir...

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Jackson Pollock: Physicist?

Posted 09.07.2011

Read More: Drip Paintings, Jackson Pollock, Physics, L. Mahadevan, Robert Motherwell, Science, Claude Cernuschi, Abstract Expressionism, Scientific Computing, Painting, Andrzej Herczy?Ski, Wired, Harvard University, Physics Today, Gravity, Pollock, Arts News

Can we learn about physics from Jackson Pollock? What about the other way around? A recent paper in the scientific journal Physics Today by Andrzej He...

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Forensic Art Expert Sues Over New Yorker Article

ARTINFO | Posted 09.06.2011

Read More: Peter Paul Biro, Jackson Pollock, Pat Wertheim, Defamation, Forensic Art, Thomas Hoving, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Biro, Forensics, David Grann, Jay Leno, Who the #$% Is Jackson Pollock, Lawsuit, Arts News

Forensic art analyst Peter Paul Biro, the subject of a 2010 exposé in the New Yorker, is suing the magazine's publisher for defamation to the tune of...

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Larry Gagosian's House Damaged In Fire

East Hampton, NY Patch | Taylor K. Vecsey | Posted 08.29.2011

Read More: Andy Warhol, East Hampton, Jackson Pollock, Willem De Kooning, Roy Lichtenstein, Pablo Picasso, Property Damage, Fire, Painting, Gagosian, Larry Gagosian, New York, Gagosian Gallery, Arts News

A fire broke out behind the walls of renowned art dealer Larry Gagosian's house in Amagansett on Tuesday night, leaving it uninhabitable for the time ...

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Pollock's 'Lucifer' Gifted To Stanford

AP | Posted 08.16.2011

Read More: Jackson Pollock, Lucifer, Palo Alto, Post-World-War-2-Art, Art-Donations, Abstract Expressionism, Donations, Stanford University, Stanford, Gifts, Painting, Pollock, Arts News

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- A family has donated 121 pieces from its collection of prominent 20th century American art to Stanford University, including the ...

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Exploring The Career Of Missouri Artist Thomas Hart Benton

Jane Chafin | Posted 07.26.2011

Read More: Regionalism, Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock, Painting, Flood Disaster, Thomas Hart Benton, Ken Burns' America, Natural Disasters, Joplin, Missouri, Cartoonist, Joplin American, Ken Burns, Arts News

I recently read an article about a 1951 Thomas Hart Benton painting that sold for nearly $1.9 million at a Southeby's auction. The painting, Flood Dis...

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