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...Pollock Starring: Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden Director: Ed Harris Opens: Dec. 15 in N.Y. and L.A.; wide...
There are two things you have to say about Jackson Pollock: He figured out a way to paint as no one before him ever had, and he was, as a human being, a shambles - drunken, depressed, disloyal and near to moronically inarticulate. The only way to approach his short and miserable life (he died in a possibly suicidal car crash at age 44) is as an insoluble mystery, and that's precisely what Harris, the star, director and co-producer of Pollock, does. The script by Barbara Turner and Susan J. Emshwiller offers no explanation of the painter's dysfunction...
...began by ordering a Panasonic ShowStopper ($800), which comes with ReplayTV built in. Despite having an installation diagram that looks like a Jackson Pollock mural, the ShowStopper was surprisingly quick and easy to set up. If your TV doesn't have those red-white-yellow AV inputs (mine doesn't), you'll have to route it through something that does, like a VCR. Once your DVR is up and running, you plug it into a phone jack, so that it can download the week's program listings. (ReplayTV automatically makes a short phone call every morning at around...
...biomorphic felt wall sculpture, "Behind the House I," is the demonic overextension of romanticism's untouched sublime, displaying a terrifying kudzu-like growth which crowds the visual plane with drooping, sinewy forms. David Akiba's superb nature photographs depict a similarly infernal tangle of branches, reminiscent of Jackson Pollock. Roxy Paine's naturalistic miniatures, as exacting as neoclassical gardens, reckon with human pollution: a plot of weeds behind glass is littered with wine bottles, candy wrappers and used condoms. And Michael Ashkin's model-like sculpture "No. 104" depicts a haunting aerial view of an industrial plant-human interference...
...Alphabet demonstrates, Guston struggled throughout the 1960s to reconcile his growing desire for concrete figuration with his already accomplished style of abstract expressionism. As a respected contemporary of such American masters as Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, he had won numerous awards, including two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Ford Foundation grant and the prestigious Prix de Rome. Still, something was missing; abstraction was increasingly alien and even boring to him. On his gray canvases of the 1960s, amorphous black head-shapes began to appear, laboring to push, as it were, out of the ether behind them. Then...