Lucy Ives at Hyperallergic:
The Met’s new show, Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous, is by any reckoning one of the most gorgeously designed and ingeniously installed exhibitions in the museum’s history. Yet its strength is in its unfussiness, because there’s no mystery about the subtext here. Although the title hints at deeper questions about the restorative power of memory, we all know why we’ve come to these mostly windowless galleries tucked into a somewhat hard-to-access section of the museum’s second floor. We want to stare at somebody else’s marriage. Even more than this, we want to know how she did it. How did Lee Krasner make these intricate and small and big and brash paintings? How did she survive being married to a man who was briefly the most famous artist in America, and who died while driving under the influence? How did she — unlike Edith Metzger, a passenger in the car Pollock crashed on the night of August 11, 1956 — make it out alive, and, moreover, what did it mean for her art?
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