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Griselda Pollock, Professor emerita of the Social and Critical Histories of Art, University of Leeds

Women artists: the belated craze for blockbuster shows is welcome – but it's not enough

The Lee Krasner exhibition at London's Barbican, 2019. Charlie J Ercilla / Alamy

The Barbican’s boldly curated exhibiton of abstract expressionist Lee Krasner (1908-1984) – who was routinely referred to as Jackson Pollock’s wife, despite being a well-established artist long before meeting him – transferred to the Guggenheim Bilbao in 2018. Before it opened, a Spanish newspaper invited me to introduce this “little known” artist. I responded: “Welcome to a party that we feminists have been enjoying for 50 years.”

A gray-haired female artist called Lee Krasner in a bright pink satin jacket.
Abstract artist Lee Krasner. Bernard Gotfryd/Wikipedia, CC BY
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