John Baldessari reunites Jackson Pollock with his teacher Thomas Hart Benton

Art doesnt just arise out of nowhere, says the 85-year-old artist US John Baldessari. Art comes out of art; Im interested in artists who influenced me, and how one artist interests another artist. Twelve new pictures by Baldessari, on show at Marian Goodman gallery in New York (until 23 December), juxtapose details of paintings by Jackson Pollock with those of works by the Abstract Expressionists teacher, Thomas Hart Benton.
The works are overlaid with Baldessari's own interventions: splotches