Calif. collectors seek to prove stolen art exists

2010-02-24T22:03:22Z

<div id="subtitle">List of art allegedly stolen from Calif. home released to counter authorities' claims of fraud</div><div><p>Two men accused of lying about having millions of dollars of artwork stolen from their high-rent home in Pebble Beach released documents Friday that they insist proves they were ripped off.</p>&a...

Collectors named as suspects in Calif. art heist

2010-02-24T22:01:10Z

<div><p>Two men who claim thieves broke into their rental home in the ritzy coastal enclave of Pebble Beach and made off with millions of dollars worth of art were named as suspects in the case Tuesday.</p><p>Monterey County Sheriff's Cmdr. Mike Richards said

Collectors say valuable paintings stolen in Calif.

2010-02-25T01:03:08Z

<div id="subtitle">Collectors say artwork by Pollock, Van Gogh, Rembrandt, others stolen from Calif. home</div><div><p>Authorities say artwork by Jackson Pollock, Matisse, Rembrandt and others has been reported stolen from a California rental home in the wealthy...

Meltdown Museums

2009-04-08T18:45:37Z

A visitor to the Metropolitan Museum of Art inspects Jackson Pollock's Autumn Rhythm (Number 30), Tuesday, March 31, 2009, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

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British supermarket rebrands fish to spare blushes

2010-03-03T08:00:37Z

<div><p>A British supermarket has rebranded a fish after shoppers said they were embarrassed to ask for it by name, it said Monday.</p><p>The humble pollack will be sold by Sainsbury's as "colin" -- pronounced "co-lan," and French for the closely-related hake -- with a limited edition in packaging inspired by abstract expressionist artist Jackson Pollock.</p>&lt...

Sainsbury's rebrands fish to spare blushes

2010-03-03T08:00:38Z

<div><p>Sainsbury's has rebranded a fish after shoppers said they were embarrassed to ask for it by name, it said Monday.</p><p>The humble pollack will be sold by the supermarket as "colin" -- pronounced "co-lan," and French for the closely-related hake -- with a limited edition in packaging inspired by abstract expressionist artist Jackson Pollock.</p><p&...

Abstract Art Paintings & Need For Expression

2010-03-03T08:19:45Z

<p>Abstract Art Paintings & Need For Expression</p><p>By Jaison Cianelli</p><p></p><p>As human beings we create nothing of our own, but only partake in the great creative process as conduits. So the creative position of the artist is a humbling one. The artist is essentially a channel. This can't be any more obvious than in the abstract expressionist artist.</p><p&...

Abstract Art Looked Into!

2010-03-03T08:20:05Z

<p>Abstract Art Looked Into!</p><p>By Anna Meenaghan</p><p></p><p>It is sometimes quite a problem to, in fact, come to terms with what is called abstract drawings, sculptures and paintings. Often it is a mental or spiritual form of expression of the artist that we see before us.</p><p></p><p>We cannot always see the artists insight on the gi...

TV Hewitt Cancer

2009-03-19T13:38:57Z

In this photo handout released by Picturehouse, "Who The $#%& Is Jackson Pollock" executive producer Don Hewitt is shown at the New York Premiere, Wednesday, Nov. 08, 2006. (AP Photo/Picturehouse, Dave Allocca, file)

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Paris exhibition celebrates 100 years of jazz

2010-03-03T14:13:15Z

<div id="subtitle">From Pollock to Fred Astaire: Paris exhibition charts the influence of a century of jazz</div><div><p>From the dripping paint of Jackson Pollock to the paper cutouts of Henri Matisse and the tap routines of ...

Redding California News - February 03, 2009

2009-04-20T19:14:32Z

Local artist Richard Wilson talks about Turtle Bay's new Guild Hall exhibit at the museum on Tuesday. The exhibit features work from Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol and others dating from 1878 to 1994

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The giant awakes

2010-03-02T02:45:26Z

<div><p>You could mistake the red of Barnett Newman's painting Vir Heroicus Sublimis (1950-51) for the red of communism - but then again, not. It's different, somehow. Narrow vertical bands of white, yellow and variations on red pulse across its epic five-and-a-half metre width. This abstract masterpiece is a grandiose reflection of the human self, its vertical lines suggesting the mind, its redness the heart...

Portrait and a Dream, Jackson Pollock (1953)

2010-03-02T04:42:11Z

<div><p><em class="bold">&amp;#183;</em><a href="http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/features/kuspit/kuspit4-20-6.asp">See the work online</a><em class="bold">&amp;#183;</em><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/portrait/archive/0,11097,752942,00.html">All articles in this series</a></p><p><em class="bold"&...

As good as it gets

2010-03-02T06:17:48Z

<div><p> Jackson Pollock -- one of America's foremost Abstract Expressionists -- died exactly 50 years ago this summer. At the tender age of 44 he met his maker not far from where I'm staying in East Hampton, having drunk himself into a rage before getting behind the wheel of his Nam June Paik - Electronic Superhighway: Continental US, Alaska, Hawaii (1995)</p><p>The South-Korean born Nam June Paik was considered to be the first video artist, and developed the idea of an electronic superhighway in 1974. This...

Artists beginning with J

2010-02-27T19:49:27Z

<div><p>Japanese (12th century) - The Scroll of Hungry Ghosts</p><p>One of the earliest art-scroll paintings, The Scroll of Hungry Ghosts is a gory depiction of hordes of gakki (hungry ghosts) with distended bellies devouring corpses and other unpalatable items in an effort to appease their ravenous appetites. (JL)</p><p>Japanese (13th century) - Night Attack on the Sanjo Palace, The Removal of the Imperial Famil...

Appaloosa

2010-02-28T08:26:33Z

<div><p>Ed Harris made his directorial debut eight years ago in a biography of Jackson Pollock in which he played the title role. He's now followed this up with a fine western, Appaloosa. This is singularly appropriate. Back in the postwar decade, Pollock's paintings were promoted in the Cold War as an expression of American freedom and individuality, while ...

Digital cameras give us another way of enjoying art

2010-02-28T15:44:37Z

<div><p>Flash of inspiration ... Roger Hiorn's spectacular commission for Artangel. Photograph: Jonathan Jones</p><p>Everyone does it. Even I do it, and in theory I disapprove of anything that gets in the way of a pure contemplative experience of art. When I see other people doing it and I'm not, it makes me angry and contemptuous - can't they just look? But every so often I too reach fo...

Proving the Pollock

2010-03-04T15:28:49Z

<div><p>If 32 hitherto unknown paintings by Leonardo or Caravaggio were suddenly uncovered, the art world would be on fire with excitement. Not even his strongest supporters would claim that the great American abstract expressionist, Jackson Pollock, is quite in that league. But the claim that 32 of his paintin...

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