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Ashley R. Pollock, the assistant dean in Kirkland House for the Summer School and an instructor in the Continuing Education and Special Program, declined to comment. She said that she could not share information about a former student, but confirmed Murphy was no longer a student at the Summer School. She also said that no information would be passed on from the deans to Summer School students or residents of Kirkland House...
...Standing Woman is one of five works (the others are sculptural pieces by Heinz Mack and G?nther Uecker, and paintings by Jackson Pollock and Lucio Fontana) that have traveled all the way from Venice to Melbourne for the National Gallery of Victoria?s blockbuster show, "Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now," which opened June...
...escape the war, that she hit the jackpot. One of the young artists she set her sights on was a custodian and art preparator at her uncle's then-budding museum. She put him on a monthly stipend and encouraged him to explore his uniquely abstract style. "Jackson Pollock was Peggy's greatest achievement," Rylands says. "He was to Peggy what Kandinsky was to Solomon. She did everything...
...moving back to Europe, where on a whim she bought an unfinished Venetian palace, nicknamed Palazzo Nonfinito, she staged Pollock's first Italian show in 1950. By then Life magazine had already posed the question, "JACKSON POLLOCK: IS HE THE GREATEST LIVING PAINTER IN THE UNITED STATES?" But her life as a collector was not quite complete. From the '50s on, she moved past Pop and Minimalism to focus on the more quirky kinetic works of Germans Mack and Uecker, only now being properly appreciated. "The Zero Group works exemplify how Peggy was evergreen," Rylands says. "She continued buying...
...Sudan-linked oil company Sinopec. Laconi said that the position the incoming council will take on the Sudan divestment issue has “yet to be determined” by the representatives. The other graduate students elected to serve in the meeting May 16 include Ashley R. Pollock as vice president for communications, James Wang as vice president for internal operations, Adam Cohen-Aslatei as vice president for events, and Jason Rafferty as vice president for student advocacy. —Staff writer Kevin Zhou can be reached at kzhou@fas.harvard.edu...