The historical controversy over Jackson Pollock’s ‘masterpiece’ revealed much about Australia’s attitude towards the arts.

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 ...

Blue Poles: Jackson Pollock, Gough Whitlam and the painting that changed a nation by Tom McIlroy At the epicentre of our 70s boom stands Jackson Pollock’s Blue Poles, purchased for the ...

James Paterson told the media the government should sell Jackson Pollock’s abstract expressionist masterpiece, Blue Poles. “Some people feel like they’ve got a real attachment to Blue Poles, and I ...

Even as a high school student in the 1920s, Jackson Pollock understood the value of art and culture. The young upstart and his friends caused a “classroom scandal” when they published a polemic ...

Contributed by Adam Simon / The five abstract paintings in Medrie MacPhee’s “The Repair,” at Tibor de Nagy, have just enough indications of figure/ground and observed reality to evoke landscape, ...

146 x 228.6 cm. (57.5 x 90 in.) ...