NewsPronto

 
The Times


.

News

News Pronto News

Blue poles 45 years on: asset or overvalued drip painting?

  • Written by Sue Rabbitt Roff, Researcher, Social History/Tutor in Medical Education, University of Dundee
Visitors look at Blue poles (1952) during its trip to London for an abstract expressionism exhibition in 2016.Andy Rains/EPA

Blue poles infinitely winding, as I write, as I write.

Patti Smith

Forty-five years ago, the National Gallery of Australia was still a gleam in the eye of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and the yet-to-be-built...

Read more: Blue poles 45 years on: asset or overvalued drip painting?