Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Ave, 10028, New York City

October 4, 2026 – January 31, 2027

Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock met in New York in 1941, married in 1945, and lived and worked together in Springs, Long Island until Pollock’s death in 1956. Although Pollock was long more widely recognized, the exhibition presents both artists as central figures in the development of mid-20th-century art, especially Abstract Expressionism, and reconsiders their work in relation to one another. Titled *Past Continuous* after a 1976 Krasner painting, the show traces their parallel lives and artistic practices through nearly a shared history shaped by memory, place, and postwar change. Krasner, rooted in Brooklyn and shaped by her Jewish immigrant family background, developed an expansive practice focused on abstraction, nature, and color. Pollock, raised in the American West, became known for his breakthrough drip technique and a brief but highly influential period of radical painting. Featuring over 120 works, the exhibition is the first major New York presentation devoted to either artist in over 20 years and the first to survey their careers together from start to finish.