Review: Blue Poles: Jackson ... out in Pollock's work, from the cubist Birth (1941) and the experimental Mural (1944) to the improvisational Galaxy (1947), and the enormous One: Number 31, 1950 ...

The first half of McIlroy’s Blue Poles: Jackson Pollock, Gough Whitlam and the Painting ... Blue Poles, initially known as Number 11, 1952 — for a time, Pollock gave his paintings numbers rather than ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 bean counter in me wonders why China does not just sail into Auckland and take all the dairy produce they currently purchase for free (“PM trips as China ships sail to WA”). They could do ...

#14 Anthony Mason — Just as Jackson did in WWIB #13, Mase ran away with the WWIB #14 chip with 137 of the 163 votes. To be ...

The hope is that Jackson can return to a higher level of play, closer to what he was over the first four years of his career in Detroit under Ben Johnson. That's an expensive gamble for Poles ...

Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was on the line seeking advice from her husband, artist Clifton Pugh, about whether the Labor government should approve one of the most expensive purchases of art in the ...