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Anonymous Sources: Pollock Matter a Use Too Fair?

ArtsFuse — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:49:04 +0000

Could a longstanding debate over copyright law add yet another dimension to the long-running Pollock Matter Affair? There are signs it might, though the media haven’t yet understood just how broad the implications might be. (more…)

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Anonymous Sources: Just Call Us Old Fashioned

ArtsFuse — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:23:02 +0000

A hard-surfing reader called our attention recently to a piece in the on-line journal, The Hub Review. The piece, “Why all the love for the ‘Matter Pollocks’?” reports on the on-going controversy covered in some previous “Anonymous Sources” posts on The Arts Fuse. (more…)

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Anonymous Sources: Pollock Mystery Takes a Few New Turns

ArtsFuse — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 22:50:54 +0000

One of the most controversial exhibitions in decades, Pollock Matters, curated by Case Western Reserve Professor Ellen Landau and others, opened quietly at Boston College’s McMullen Museum just this past Labor Day weekend. But it is already turning heads. (more…)

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Anonymous Sources: Pollock Exhibition Will Make Global Splash

ArtsFuse — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:18:15 +0000

A front-page story in the Boston Globe arts section last Sunday reminds us that the Pollock-Matter Affair is alive and well and moving to Boston. One of the biggest art world controversies in decades, this perfect storm of paint, press hype, and cultivated invective swirls around a group of Jackson Pollock-like art works that filmmaker Alex Matter discovered in a Long Island storage locker five years ago. (more…)

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