{"id":18817,"date":"2023-05-22T12:23:36","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T16:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/?page_id=18817"},"modified":"2023-06-09T17:00:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T21:00:40","slug":"barbara-pollack-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/exhibitions\/barbara-pollack-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbara Pollack Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-black-color has-text-color\">Barbara Pollack (American, b.1957)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Pollack is a renowned artist, critic, curator, and writer. She attended Brandeis University and Northeastern University in Boston, has written for The New York Times and Artnews, and has curated exhibitions in major museums such as the Museum of Moder<br>n Art, New York and the Shanghai Art Museum. Pollack has written extensively on contemporary Chinese art as an expert in the field, as well as authored several books, including <em>The Wild, Wild East: An American Art Critic&#8217;s Adventures in China<\/em> and<em> Brand New Art from China: A Generation on the Rise<\/em>. She is also an abstract artist. In her portrait of artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/exhibitions\/william-pope-l-biography\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">William Pope.L<\/a>, he is out of focus around moments of light and color, creating a reflective depiction of the artist known for his experimentations in contemporary art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"833\" height=\"900\" data-id=\"19561\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/06\/pollack-pope.L-833x900.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/06\/pollack-pope.L-833x900.webp 833w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/06\/pollack-pope.L-278x300.webp 278w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/06\/pollack-pope.L-768x830.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/06\/pollack-pope.L-1422x1536.webp 1422w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/06\/pollack-pope.L-581x628.jpg 581w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/06\/pollack-pope.L.webp 1776w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 833px) 100vw, 833px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbara Pollack (American, b.1957) Pollack is a renowned artist, critic, curator, and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1626,"featured_media":0,"parent":1152,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-18817","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18817"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19563,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18817\/revisions\/19563"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}