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...machines rather than the ephemeral and koan-like events (talking to a dead hare, sweeping a pavement) that were Beuys' specialty. Kiefer wants to involve his audience completely in the drama of the painting's construction; in this respect, he has learned a lot from the example of Jackson Pollock. As when deciphering the web of drips and mottlings in one of Pollock's "all-over" abstractions, the eye crawls its way across a Kiefer, mesmerized by detail: every square centimeter of those giant canvases is intended, somehow, to speak. What they were saying, particularly in the '70s and early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Germany's Master in The Making | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

...just opened. He is one of the very few American artists to get this double crown in their lifetime, thanks to the enthusiasm with which William Rubin, MOMA's director of painting and sculpture, views his work. It is hardly an exaggeration that MOMA treats Stella as Jackson Pollock's true dauphin in the lineage of American abstract painting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Grand Maximalist | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

...Once you move evidence, in certain situations, you're destroying facts we need to know. Things, such as where they find bodies, where they find parts of the airplane, are crucial," said Alan Pollock, a spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 154 Killed in Michigan Airplane Crash | 8/18/1987 | See Source »

...Pollock said the black box and cockpit voice recorder from the McDonnell Douglas MD-80, an updated version of the DC-9, had been recovered and were sent to Washington for analysis in NTSB laboratories. It would be 60 days before a transcript is released, he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 154 Killed in Michigan Airplane Crash | 8/18/1987 | See Source »

...they had not been painted by American women? And what serious artist wants gender to be the primary classification of her art? Lee Krasner did not want to be in a ghetto with "women artists" -- she wanted to be seriously compared, as she now is, with men like Jackson Pollock and Andre Masson. Most living artists feel the same way, and this fact alone will guarantee the irrelevance of the National Museum of Women in the Arts for years to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: How To Start a Museum | 8/10/1987 | See Source »

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