Jackson Pollock

On the occasion of the release of Audrey Flack's riveting memoir, With Darkness Came Stars, and her solo exhibition at Hollis Taggart, Art & Object sat down with the artist for a conversation.
From anti-semites to abusers, this list is full of truly disheartening facts about artists who made some of the most beautiful work. There has long been an association between caustic temperaments…
“Good artists borrow, great artists steal.” —attributed to Pablo Picasso
The abstract expressionist painter and Chicago-born poet Corinne Michelle West (1908-1991) was thirty-one years old when she officially changed her name in both her personal and professional life to…
A 67-million-year-old dinosaur fossil known as “Stan” was the star of the show at Christie’s last night when it sold for $31,847,500 after a protracted bidding war between buyers on the phone in New…
Away from the Easel: Jackson Pollock’s Mural is a focused exhibition dedicated to the first monumental painting by American artist Jackson Pollock (1912–1956).
If a roadtrip is in your future, a new publication from Princeton Architectural Press may be just what you need to add some art history to your vacation.
Some of art history's greats have used everything from kitchen cloths to board games when they couldn’t get canvas or were short on funds.
This video essay seeks to explain how art progressed from figurative works to the abstract art of Jackson Pollock.
From her childhood in early 1900s Brooklyn to the end of her life in East Hampton, Lee Krasner painted with a distinctive, courageous vision. It was this vision that pushed her to persevere as an…
There’s an overlooked reason for Pollock’s fame. Even if you love him, you might not know the name of the man who made him famous.
This spring The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), will conduct a thorough conservation of Jackson Pollock’s abstract expressionist painting Number 1, 1949 (1949), a treasure…

Washington, DC—Stretching nearly 20 feet wide by 8 feet tall, Mural (1943) is the largest work by Jackson Pollock (1912-1956). Beyond its monumental proportions and the many…

A special installation in the Gallery’s East Building features Mural (1943) by Jackson Pollock, on loan from the University of Iowa Museum of Art. Originally commissioned by…