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

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 ...

The painting was Jackson Pollock's "Blue Poles". 'Drunks did it' screamed the tabloid press. Journalists, politicians and cartoonists had a field day, while everybody, but everybody, across the ...

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 ...