Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
More than 120 works by two Abstract Expressionists are on view through January 31, 2027, at the Met on Fifth Avenue.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has given one of the central figures of American modernism a long-overdue place at the center of a major exhibition. Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous, on view since October 4, 2026, runs through January 31, 2027.
What you will see
NPR reports that the show brings together more than 120 works, 74 by Lee Krasner and 48 by Jackson Pollock. Krasner's side of the story includes collages such as Bald Eagle from 1955, her 1947 Mosaic Table and the large canvas The Seasons from 1957. Pollock is represented by his celebrated drip paintings, including Convergence from 1952 and Autumn Rhythm (Number 30).
The exhibition is organized by curators Brinda Kumar and David Breslin. By giving Krasner the greater share of the wall space, it invites visitors to look at her as an artist of full stature rather than only as a figure in someone else's story. Speaking in a 1978 interview, Krasner said simply: "I was working all the time."
Why go
Walking between the rooms is a chance to compare two very different temperaments working in the same moment: her cut paper, mosaic and layered paint against his poured and dripped skeins.
Visiting
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. The Met's fall page also lists Costume Art, the exhibition behind the Met Gala, in the Thom Browne Gallery from May 10, 2026 to January 10, 2027, which makes a natural second stop on the same visit. Admission details, hours and timed-entry information are available at metmuseum.org; they were not listed in the sources reviewed for this article.