Blue Poles and its $1.4m price-tag shocked the nation, but did it change us?
Even as a high school student in the 1920s, Jackson Pollock understood the value of art and culture. The young upstart and ...
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Blue Poles: how Australia came to own the Jackson Pollock masterpiece
Whether or not they decided to buy Blue Poles, “the fact that it was offered to Australia will be recorded in the literature of the art of the mid-20th century”. Jackson Pollock’s Number 11 ...
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Chinese ships a reality check for our military
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 ...