davidcapie.bsky.social @davidcapie.bsky.social · 22/04/2025In 1973, Gough Whitlam responded to criticism about the price paid for Jackson Pollock’s abstract expressionist masterpiece “Blue Poles”, by joking it would at least help offset the US’s “adverse balance of payments” with Australia. 120
davidcapie.bsky.social @davidcapie.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Source: Tom McIlroy’s excellent new book on “the painting that changed a nation”. Highly recommended. 000
