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Don't tell me you forgot the tale of the Alex Matter pictures. Well, the Sept. 1 opening at Boston College's McMullen Museum of Art is approaching, and there's a hitch in the plan to at least provide a press preview for the show. Actually, it's not a hitch. The preview is cancelled.

But McMullen director Nancy Netzer assured me today, via e-mail, that the cancellation has nothing to do with the controversy surrounding the works. It is simply a matter of scheduling a preview on the Friday before Labor Day weekend. The museum had virtually no confirmed attendees, and didn't want to pull Ellen Landau, one of the show's curators, away from classes if nobody showed up.

Alex, and his paintings.