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Anonymous Sources: Pollock Matter a Use Too Fair?

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.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Visual Arts Tagged: Alex-matter, Anonymous Sources, CAS-Cip, Copywright, Featured, Jackson-pollock, lee-krasner, mcmullen-museum, pollock-krasner-foundation, Pollock-Matters, U.S.-Copyright-law, Visual Arts

The Fine Art of Packaging Beer

By David Hartley Believe it or not, cans and screwtops are not only back, but they are chic. For the past few decades, drinking beer out of a can has been for the slightly louche among us, the thin tin package of choice for undiscriminating guzzlers at football stadiums and frat-houses. But now the lowly […]

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Food Tagged: Beer, bottling, brewery, canned-beer, cans, microbrewers, screwcap

Anonymous Sources: Just Call Us Old Fashioned

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.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Visual Arts Tagged: Anonymous Sources, exhbition, Jackson-pollock, Matter, Matter-Pollocks, mcmullen-museum

Anonymous Sources: Pollock Mystery Takes a Few New Turns

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.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Visual Arts Tagged: abstract-expressionist, Anonymous Sources, art-historians, authenticity-exhibition, boston-globe, conservation-scientist, conservation-scientists-weather-the-storm-1940s, disparaging-congratulate, harvard-report-paintings, harvard-university, Jackson-pollock, landau, mcmullen-museum, museum-of-fine-arts-boston, pollock-krasner-foundation, richard-newman, Visual Arts

Anonymous Sources: Pollock Exhibition Will Make Global Splash

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 […]

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Visual Arts Tagged: Anonymous Sources, art-experts.-abstract-expressionist, art-world, boston-globe, case-western-reserve-university, conservation-scientists, disputed-works, expressionist-art, harvard-university, invective, Jackson-pollock, krasner-foundation, lee-krasner, paintings-moving-to-boston, pollock, scientists, Uncategorized, Visual Arts

Rare Brain Power

A memoir by one of the world’s few savants is thoroughly rewarding.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books

Wild Ride with The Decemberists

The Decemberists are passionate, intense and they put on one hell of a show.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Music

The Ultimate Feel-Good Artist

During the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, Gordon Matta-Clark did what many of us think might be cool, but never dare try to pull off.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Visual Arts Tagged: Gordon-Matta-Clark, Visual Arts, Whitney-Museum-of-American-art

Rock Concert Review: Polished Pogues Shine Anew

The Pogues are back and they’re ready to rock. By Ira Kantor BOSTON, Mass.– For the iconoclastic (and newly reunited) band The Pogues, the moment of truth has arrived. It’s 8:30 p.m. and Boston’s aged Orpheum Theatre has just gone dark. Cheers and applause rattle the walls. Is the worst going to happen or will […]

By: Ira Kantor Filed Under: Featured, Music, Review Tagged: The-Pogues

Poster-Boomer for a Generation

From gophers, “Ghostbusters” and groundhogs to “Broken Flowers” and beyond, Murray evolves into something much more meaningful.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Film

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