A Rare Pollock And Krasner Exhibition Is Coming To The Met

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — A major new exhibition celebrating the work of mid-century abstract artists Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner is landing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art later this year.

The new exhibition, "Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous," will open Oct. 4 and feature more than 120 works by the couple, who were married in 1945 and remained together until Pollock died in 1956.

"'Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous' begins with the fundamental premise that these artists are equals, partners in life, giants in the history of art, and revolutionaries who defined what abstraction could be," David Breslin, the curator of the exhibit, said. "Each found a partner who would insist on the primacy of art over life; and they both aspired to an art that was forged out of historical connections but that also promised freedom and radical possibility in a world forever changed by war."

The new exhibit marks the first major New York exhibition devoted to either artist in more than two decades and their first at The Met, museum administrators said.

The exhibit will be organized into 12 chapters that span each artist's career, from the 1930s until their respective deaths, moving between moments of convergence and difference.

The exhibition draws on The Met collection and includes rarely loaned works from major institutional lenders, including the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, MoMA, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

"This project affirms Krasner and Pollock not only as defining figures of their moment, but as artists whose work continues to shape and inspire future generations," Met CEO Max Hollein said.

The exhibit will run from Oct. 4, 2026, to Jan. 31, 2027.

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