Even as a high school student in the 1920s, Jackson Pollock understood the value of art and culture. The young upstart and ...

Jackson Pollock’s Blue Poles is one of the greatest paintings of the 20th century. National Gallery of Australia The cable arrived at lunchtime on Wednesday, 6 June, 1973. The news from New ...

Our cultural romanticists tend to celebrate the early 1980s as this nation’s Warholean 15 minutes of 20th-century fame, with ...

This episode is described early in Blue Poles: Jackson Pollock, Gough Whitlam and the Painting that Changed a Nation, a new book by journalist and first-time author Tom McIlroy. The colourful ...

Review: Blue Poles: Jackson Pollock, Gough Whitlam and the Painting that Changed Australia – Tom McIlroy (Hachette) This episode is described early in Blue Poles: Jackson Pollock, Gough Whitlam ...

There was an excellent article in Friday’s Review section on the Blue Poles artwork (“The art of the deal for Pollock’s Blue Poles”), purchased in 1973 by the Whitlam government for $1.4 ...