Some see him as a fraud, others as a genius. In Part Two of my film I look at how fame affected Jackson Pollock, and how alcohol destroyed his relationships. I look at the science behind why we are so ...

To all those haters who claim they just don’t get Jackson Pollock, or that the painter’s Abstract Expressionist canvases have started to look stale: here’s something to get your attention. A ...

New York City, 1936. A party around Christmas at the Artists Union on Ninth Street. One imagines a sugar-dusting of snow on the ground outside and “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town” on the radio. A man, ...

Creativity in the context of marriage is a fraught and fascinating subject. The Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is not the first major show ...

Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock are the focus of a blockbuster show at the Met Museum. Four paintings reveal how their high-intensity relationship became a laboratory for ideas. By Amei Wallach The ...

Krasner was typecast as the wife of the breakout artist of the Abstract Expressionist movement, no matter how renegade her own work. At the Met this fall, she emerges from his giant shadow. By Amei ...