Letter from the Hamptons

For the experience of works by Krasner and her husband Jackson Pollock (as prints, aside from one original late 1930s painting by Pollock) in a very different domestic setting, East Hampton is also home to the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Centre, where the couple lived from 1945. With the exception of an outhouse gift shop, where it's possible to purchase Pollock mouse mats, watches and a recipe book featuring'Jackson's famous spaghetti sauce', this historical attraction places admirable accent on the historical, no doubt thanks to its erudite director and tour guide Helen A Harrison. To see some paintings that never had any vitality to lose in the first place, one might head to the current exhibition at Water Mill's Parrish Art Museum, in which hang a number of canvases by Torkwase Dyson.