Pollock Or Not Pollock Prof, Award

Ellen Landau, known around these parts as the professor who believed Alex Matter's pictures were Pollocks, has been given the 2007 Patricia and Phillip Frost Essay Award by American Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum's scholarly journal.

And guess what... Her piece had nothing to do with the authenticity of a certain set of drip paintings. Landau's article, "Double Consciousness in Mexico: How Philip Guston and Reuben Kadish Painted a Morelian Mural," appeared in the spring 2007 issue of American Art.