The $12 Million Stuffed Shark Nov 5, 2009
Had it not been for the help of and his wife, Lee Krasner, Pollock's work would have continued to be overlooked. So, why, under what circumstance does his work now sell for a cool $140 million. (Suite101.com)
Paul Tschinkel at Freies Museum Berlin Oct 21, 2009
Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Koons, Louise Bourgeois, Kiki Smith, Laurie Anderson, Nam June Paik, Robert Mapplethorpe, Lee Krasner and Mark Kostabi are just a few of the artists that Tschinkel accompanied in the last thirty years. For the series innertubevideo , launched in 1974, Tschinkel portrayed over a decade the most energetic bands and musicians of the emerging Punk and NewWave movement. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Charles Seliger, 83; painted jewels of imaginary nature Oct 10, 2009
In 2003 he received the Pollock-Krasner Foundation s Lee Krasner Award. Beginning in 1952, Mr. Seliger recorded, in a minute hand, his observations about the art world, his thoughts on painting, and the technical details of his works in progress in slim notebooks. (Boston Globe)
Critic's picks - visual arts Sep 6, 2009
SEARCH FOR THE REAL: DRAWINGS BY HANS HOFMANN AND HIS STUDENTS An examination of the legacy of Hans Hofmann s teachings at his art school in Provincetown, including drawings by, among others, Robert De Niro Sr., Lee Krasner, and Hofmann. Through Oct. 11. (Boston Globe)
Arts: the week ahead Aug 27, 2009
SEARCH FOR THE REAL: DRAWINGS BY HANS HOFMANN AND HIS STUDENTS An examination of the legacy of Hans Hofmann s teachings at his art school in Provincetown, including charcoal and ink drawings by, among others, Robert De Niro Sr., Lee Krasner, and Hofmann himself. Through Oct. 11. (Boston Globe)
Exhibit demonstrates Hans Hofmann’s unparalleled legacy Aug 25, 2009
Among Hofmann s students in Provincetown were Lee Krasner, who is represented in this exhibition by a small and haunting self-portrait in pencil, and Robert De Niro (the actor s father), whose muscular and vigorous study of a seated male nude is the strongest (the most intense, concentrated, and convincing) of many similar efforts in the show. But really the key work here is by Blanche Lazzell, the modernist who moved to Provincetown in 1915 and was already an esteemed artist when she began to... (Boston Globe)
Art museums new East Wing is a celebration of firsts Jul 3, 2009
Standing in the Rodin gallery at the wing s south end next to the sculpture Heroic Head of Pierre de Wiessant, One of the Burghers of Calais, one has an unimpeded glimpse of Lee Krasner s imposing abstract expressionist painting Celebration five galleries away. Starting the journey with the galleries on either side of the long corridor enables the viewer to move forward in time, while connecting one period to the next. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Global art star May 14, 2009
Ed Harris as Jackson Pollock; Marcia Gay Hardin won an Oscar as wife Lee Krasner. Frida (2002). (USA Today)
