Krasner Gets Equal Billing With Pollock in a 120-Work Show at The Met

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has hung Lee Krasner beside Jackson Pollock, and the hanging is the point. The two-person exhibition runs to 120 pieces, and it gives Krasner's work the same weight and wall space as her husband's. The museum has been deliberate about not staging the pair as rivals. A visitor walking the galleries is asked to look at two painters who shared a marriage and a moment, not to pick a winner between them. That is a quieter way to present Krasner than the headline treatment her reputation has sometimes drawn, and it suits her. For New York, where both artists made their names and where their canvases still change hands at the top of the market, the show is a chance to see the two bodies of work in one room and judge the pairing with your own eyes.

With reporting from Galerie.