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Wojnarowicz Haters Now Gunning for Ellsworth Kelly, Jack the Dripper
From John Nolte, writing in “Andrew Breitbart Presents Big Hollywood”: “All the controversy surrounding the ant-covered Jesus exhibit that was eventually pulled from the federally funded National...
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Meet Warhol’s Evil Twin: “Pop Goes the Joker”
A gay guy in a fright wig hangs out with a bored rich girl named “Baby Jane.” It’s not Andy Warhol and Jane Holzer but a story arc on the 1960s TV version of Batman. In two episodes that aired in...
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Huntington to Feature Roger Medearis
The Huntington has added a group of paintings and works on paper by the American regionalist Roger Medearis (1920-2001), a gift of his widow Elizabeth. They’ll be featured along with loans in the...
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Roger Medearis at the Huntington
The elevator pitch for Roger Medearis (1920-2001) isn’t promising. He was a student of Thomas Hart Benton who pursued a Regionalist style well into the time of Mike Kelley. The Huntington’s “Roger...
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Avant-Garde and Kitsch in Laguna Beach
Here is Norman Rockwell’s folksy satire of Jackson Pollock (The Connoisseur, 1962) as interpreted by this year’s Pageant of the Masters in Laguna Beach. Consider it Clement Greenberg’s recipe for...
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Loving Monet to Pieces
Through May 4, the El Segundo Museum of Art is showing two small fragments of late Monet Water Lilies paintings as part of the exhibition “Silence.” The Monet swatch above is 18 inches wide. The...
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Pollock’s Stampede
The Getty’s conservation of Jackson Pollock’s 1943 Mural (now on view at the Getty Center) has offered opportunities to re-assessing the myths surrounding it. New evidence disputes the claim that it...
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Pollock Is Still Bigger Than Koons
BEAR: "I am nature." COP: "Morality is generally based around economics." The Whitney Museum’s Jeff Koons retrospective drew 319,000 visitors, reports the Wall Street Journal. The same article notes...
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Janet Sobel, Mother of Drip Painting
There is a short list of artists who did “drip paintings” before Jackson Pollock did. Among them is Denmark and L.A.’s Knud Merrild. The one early dripper documented as an influence on Pollock was...
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Alfred Barr & La Brea Tar
“I certainly hope they don’t build over the tar pit. Aesthetically that tar pit is neo-surrealist in the way people stand around it as if it were some ancient religious shrine and watch the bubbles...
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