Pollock, Pollock, Pollock

Unless you're in the art world, you might not realize the importance of the Williamstown Art Conservation Center. Just consider that the center has worked on a monumental work, now on display at Utica, New York, and that a second conservator, no longer at the center, is in the middle of the Alex Matter controversy.

Photo by The Associated Press

Docent Joan Herrmann talks to a group about Jackson Pollock's frieze painting "No. 2, 1949" at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Museum in Utica. After undergoing conservation treatment, the museum's flagship masterpiece is back on display.