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It is now time to try to wrap up these small “lectures” on the history of art. Today is the tough day: Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, etc. I have to admit that I did not “get” these works until I was well within graduate school. For Pollock, it took the documentary by Hans Namuth in which I saw him painting. His work is not just a bunch of random splatters; instead, Pollock carefully dances around the canvas, and you can see the evidence of the “dance,” if you will, on the canvas. (This is the same time that Martha Graham...

Texas teacher suspended for asking student to pose in boxer shorts HOUSTON — A high school art teacher who asked a student to pose for classmates wearing only boxer shorts has been suspended. Karen Fearon, an advanced placement art teacher at The Woodlands High School near Houston, was suspended with pay pending the outcome of an investigation. "I asked him if he'd feel comfortable wearing them in class. At first he was hesitant, then he said, 'Yeah, I will,' Fearon told Houston television station KPRC. "Before I knew it, I turned around to get the paper and supplies and he...