Dan's Cover Artist Joe Fig Resurrects Pollock In Miniature Form

This week's cover art, "Namuth's Pollock #10" by artist Joe Fig is somewhat unique in the history of Dan's Papers covers, presenting a photograph of a miniature sculpture of a photograph of a painter making a painting (try saying that 10 times fast). The sculpture, which is now on view at the Parrish Art Museum's XS exhibition of small works (through April 3), depicts East End legend Jackson Pollock working at his Springs studio, as filmed by East Hampton art photographer Hans Namuth who took hundreds of pictures of the iconic painter during the fall of 1950. It's one of many in Fig's series of miniature artist studios, both historical and contemporary, recreated in painstaking detail. Other East End subjects in the series include Willem de Kooning, April Gornik and Eric Fischl (also on view at the Parrish), Chuck Close, Ross Bleckner and Andy Warhol, to name a few.