Seeing Krasner and Pollock Together
Hyperallergic publishes an editor’s note introducing artist and writer Lia Strasser’s personal essay responding to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s forthcoming exhibition Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous, announced earlier this year on Instagram with a photograph by Hans Namuth. Strasser initially objected to pairing Lee Krasner with Jackson Pollock—arguing Krasner deserved a solo show—but revisits the couple’s history through a trip to the Pollock-Krasner House in Springs, East Hampton, and reframes the story to emphasize Krasner’s agency rather than her overshadowing by Pollock. The same Hyperallergic briefing reports that Yayoi Kusama died last week at age 97 and that artists, galleries, museums, and fashion houses posted tributes on social media. It also notes additional news items including a diamond-necklace theft from Vienna’s Museum of Applied Arts and public outcry over demolitions at the Rike Park Music Theatre and Exhibition Hall in Tbilisi, Georgia.
From This Briefing
This story was covered in Heists, Restitution, and the Fall Exhibition Frenzy