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The Canvas and the Clue

By Christian Viveros-Faune

How Jim Coddington ’74 solved a Jackson Pollock mystery.

Coloring Outside the Lines

By Mary Emily O’Hara ’12

Kathleen Flannigan ’62 rallies the disabled artists’ movement.

What is a Reedie, Anyway?

By Randall S. Barton

12 brand-new grads discuss their quest for knowledge.

Web Special

• Into the Stacks
• The Inner Coleman

Editor's Note

• Ariadne’s Thread

Letters

• Let Sleeping Cats Lie . . .
• Remembering Professor Arch
• Remembering Jacqueline Kohler Koch ’70
• Remembering John Goldsmith ’88
• They Said I Was a Communist
• The Lincoln Brigade
• Smackdown: Bridge vs. Scribe

Eliot Circular

• Grads Asked to Fix Dents
• Pink Shoes, Blue Glow
• Shock! Horror! Quest Turns 100!
• Considering Reed’s Future
• Environmental Studies Gain Momentum
• Tangled up in Tango
• How a Galaxy Evolves
• Chem Major Nabs Class of ’21 Award
• Student and Faculty Awards

Empire of the Griffin

• From the Alumni Board President
• Alumni Overrun Campus at Reunions: Reedfayre ’13
• Welcome New Grads
• Meet Your Alumni Board

Features

• The Canvas and the Clue
• What is a Reedie, Anyway?
• Coloring Outside the Lines
• The Mythbuster
• Page Turner
• What do you do with a degree from Reed?
• Last Lectures
• In Memoriam: Steve Arch
• Composer of Note (and Notes)

Reediana

• Blue Plate Special: Kate Christensen ’86
• Fear: Prof. Benjamin Lazier
• Revolutions in Twentieth-Century Physics: Prof. David Griffiths
• Reediana Briefs

Apocrypha

• Kollectiv Bargaining

VIDEO: MoMA's Pollock Conservation Project

Jim Coddington ’74, the Museum of Modern Art's chief conservator, comments on the restoration of Jackson Pollock's One: Number 31, 1950.