New York's Met Museum rewrites the Pollock story around Lee Krasner
⏮ BeforeKrasner has long been eclipsed by the shadow of her husband.
✅ NowA landmark Met show rewrites the story of the two artists together.
In short
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is hosting a landmark show.
- The exhibition presents Krasner and Pollock as artists whose work and legacies were bound together.
- Krasner has long been overshadowed by her husband, even after his death in 1956.
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Krasner was a serious painter whose reputation stayed in the shadow of Pollock's, even after his death in 1956. The show treats the two as artists whose work and legacies were tied together, not as a footnote to his career. The source is a video preview, so the exhibition's scope is only partly described here.
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In the 1940s and '50s, Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner sent a seismic tremor through the art world. But Krasner has long been eclipsed by the shadow of her husband, even after his death in 1956. Now, correspondent Anthony Mason reports on the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York's landmark show that rewrites the story of Krasner and Pollock, two artists whose work and legacies were – aesthetically and personally – bound together.
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