"Pollock Matters" Opens

It isn't everyday I get to watch the art critic, assigned the big review, ride up to the museum on his bicycle. But that's what happens when the exhibition opens on the same day as the Boston College, Wake Forest game. Never mind that the art world is watching. As always, no parking within a mile of BC.

I would like to provide a more complete reading of the show's catalog, and the multiple studies found within. But I was given the 178-page catalog at 10 a.m., skimmed it as best I could, and filed today's story. Suffice it to say that the conclusions reached within do not refute earlier scientific studies on the Matter pictures. There are pigments and materials in these works that shouldn't be there, if they were done by Jackson Pollock. What I like about Johnson's review - and bear in mind, he was not wearing a helmet when he wheeled by me - is that he's not looking to settle the debate. "If the two dozen small paintings discovered by Alex Matter five years ago in his deceased parents' storage locker are not by Jackson Pollock, then I'd like to congratulate whoever did make them," he writes."... they are beautiful little pictures."

Ken's full review.
My story.

Lynda Medera and Daniel Vaillant of New York were among the throng that turned out for the opening of the "Pollock Matters" show at Boston College yesterday. (BILL POLO/GLOBE STAFF)