When Lee Krasner was asked in a 1978 interview what she was doing while her husband Jackson Pollock was becoming so famous, she said, "I was working all the time." Krasner is shown above, at work, in 1981.

The Met puts a modern artist front and center (and there’s some Jackson Pollock, too)

When Lee Krasner was asked in a 1978 interview what she was doing while her husband Jackson Pollock was becoming so famous, she said, "I was working all the time." Krasner is shown above, at work, in 1981.

When Lee Krasner was asked in a 1978 interview what she was doing while her husband Jackson Pollock was becoming so famous, she said, “I was working all the time.” Krasner is shown above, at work, in 1981. Ernst Haas/Getty Images

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There’s a new blockbuster show at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Past Continuous features two artists: Jackson Pollock, with many of his instantly recognizable “drip” paintings, and Lee Krasner, an

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