iThe Metropolitan Museum of Art · Upper East Side
The first major New York presentation devoted to either artist in more than 20 years.
Before you reach a single painting, a narrow hallway plays a silent video of collaged film and photographs of the Long Island cottage where Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock lived. Hyperallergic calls the installation one of the most gorgeously designed in the Met's history.
Twelve chapters run from the 1930s to the end of both lives, with over 120 works from more than 80 lenders. Some galleries hang the two together, others give each their own. Critics disagree on the pairing. In Cultured, David Rimanelli said "He was better than her", and Julia Bryan-Wilson strongly disagreed. Krasner's The Seasons runs nearly 17 feet, the knot your earbuds become by the time the 6 train reaches Union Square.
Gallery 899 is a windowless corner of the second floor, and one preview report called it crowded. It's free with Museum admission and open until 9pm on Fridays and Saturdays. The Met is closed Wednesdays. It runs to 31 January 2027.
Krasners The Seasons ist fast 5,2 Meter lang, und Pollocks Full Fathom Five enthält tatsächlich allerlei Fundstücke in der Farbe. Hyperallergic bezeichnet die Installation als eine der prachtvollsten in der Geschichte des Met; Kritiker streiten darüber, wer der bessere Maler war.
The entrance video
A silent, collaged montage of film and photographs of the artists' Long Island cottage plays in a narrow hallway before the first painting.
Krasner's Bald Eagle collage
Cultured's critics say the show opens with her 1954-55 collages, made from spattered scraps of canvas from Pollock's studio.
Pollock's Full Fathom Five (1947)
Actual junk is embedded in the paint, which Cultured's panel singled out.
The Mosaic Table (1947)
A decorative table with concrete poured by Pollock. Rimanelli called it hideous but liked that it was included.
You dislike close, windowless galleries: temporary partition walls keep you near the paintings.
Teen Studio workshops on 17 October are for ages 12-14 and 15-18, and Discoveries on 22 November has a session for ages 5-13.