Alex Matter Pictures, More Doubts

Steven Litt continues to do excellent work on the issue of the Alex Matter pictures. Those are, of course, the paintings found by Matter in a storage locker, and first proclaimed to be newly discovered Jackson Pollocks... until, that is, scientists began to question whether the late drip-master could have actually purchased those paints during his lifetime.

Litt's latest piece appears to build the case that, if the Matter pictures aren't fakes, that at least something strange happened on their way to Boston College's McMullen Museum of Art. Something that didn't involve Pollock.

Here's the piece.

Also, if you haven't seen the Daily Show's take on the Matter controversy, play this.