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Mann also says that his rooms have been centered on a theme. Two years ago he achieved notoriety when he and his roommates decorated with a Garden Party theme, complete with astroturf. "We're working on something new now--a Jackson Pollock motif," he says. In addition to six Pollock-like paint dribble canvases, Mann says that his Claverly suite will soon contain an imitation Pollock...
Fashion, however, is what the audience has on its mind, along with myths of past glory. The new mass public for art has been raised on distorted legends of heroic modernism: the myth of the artist as demiurge, from Vincent van Gogh to Jackson Pollock. Its expectations have been buoyed by 20 years of self- fulfilling gush about art investment. It would like live heroes as well. But it wants them to be like heroes on TV, fetishized, plentiful and acquiescent. If Pollock was John Wayne, the likes of Haring 'n' Basquiat resemble those two what's-their-names...
...clear things up, the Governor broached the subject on his statewide monthly radio show. Cuomo also sent a long apology to then-N.R.A. President Howard Pollock, enclosing the Times piece, as well as a transcript of his radio remarks. "My response was inartful," Cuomo wrote, "and could leave a false impression of disrespect for the National Rifle Association." Boom! The N.R.A., which had not been aware of the gaffe, blasted the Governor in a national press release and vowed that its voice, in the form of about 200,000 members in New York State, would be heard...
Calling to mind Jackson Pollock canvases, speckled draperies decorating the high fences at 23 venues actually look more like painters' dropcloths. But they do relieve the mood of the barbed wire (see DESIGN), and even the main villages at U.S.C. and UCLA are unforbidding. Strangely, no rifles and very few sidearms are in view. The only visible security forces, Ueberroth's Royal Blue Berets, are khaki-clad women and men as affable as park rangers. (Rest assured, there are hidden police gunmen.) Less than the customary Olympic access is being accorded the media. Once processed into the U.S.C...
DIED. Lee Krasner, 75, pioneer abstract expressionist painter of the New York School, whose mastery of draftsmanship and color, informed by an angry toughness and an exceptionally strong sense of rhythm, showed the influence of Matisse and Picasso as well as Jackson Pollock, her husband from 1945 until his death in 1956; after a long illness; in New York City. When they met in 1936, the Brooklyn-born Krasner was the better credentialed of the two and helped move Pollock toward the avantgarde. She continued to paint in a mutually respectful, noncompetitive partnership with him during the years of poverty...