The Metropolitan Museum of Art has opened a major exhibition pairing two of the defining figures of American modernism. The show on Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock opened on 4 October 2026 in the museum's Fifth Avenue galleries and runs through 31 January 2027, giving the winter programme a sustained double portrait of the Abstract Expressionist era. Rather than presenting the couple as a single artistic identity, the museum has chosen a parallel structure, setting Krasner and Pollock's methods and development beside one another across the full arc of both careers. The framing invites visitors to compare how each artist worked, and the institution describes the exhibition as a reassessment of two approaches that were related but never identical. The Pollock-Krasner Foundation's own records confirm the 4 October 2026 to 31 January 2027 run, giving the dates a second institutional anchor. The exhibition sits within the Met's wider modern holdings, which include Pollock's 'Autumn Rhythm: Number 30' (1950) among the collection's highlights, offering visitors a direct route from the temporary display to the permanent galleries. Founded in 1870, the museum presents more than 5,000 years of art across its Fifth Avenue building and the Met Cloisters in Upper Manhattan, with a collection of over 1.5 million objects cared for by curatorial, conservation and research departments. The museum's October calendar is crowded: the Krasner and Pollock opening is followed later in the month by 'Designing the Gilded Age: Drawings from the Studios of Louis C. Tiffany', opening on 22 October. Together the two exhibitions bracket the Met's autumn programme, moving from mid-century American abstraction to the decorative arts of the American Renaissance.