Jackson Pollock, Ben Rivers, John Waters: this week’s new exhibitions

Jackson Pollock | Ben Rivers | Taking Flight | Phyllida Barlow | In Search Of The Miraculous | John Waters | Station To StationWhen the superstar abstract expressionist Jackson “Jack the Dripper” Pollock shifted to using more recognisable figurative pictures in the early 1950s, many thought it constituted a cop-out lack of nerve, perhaps occasioned by too much fame and too much well-lubricated fun. At last, this exhibition – the first in over three decades to survey his late paintings –