1955. Upper West Side. Jackson Pollock seeks help from a psychotherapist practicing controversial methods.

1955. Upper West Side. Jackson Pollock seeks help from a psychotherapist practicing controversial methods.

You’ve heard of Jackson Pollock but you may have never heard of Lee Krasner. Krasner was an artist, Pollock’s wife, and the woman who made him famous. She also changed everything about the landscape of modern art. This is a story about love, power, alcoholism and an ill-timed death. Hosted by curator, author, and broadcaster Katy Hessel, this 6-episode series, offers an inside look into two of the greatest artists of the 20th century, and how their vision impacts ours. 

And listen back to season one, where host Helen Molesworth revisits the artist Ana Mendieta’s death and the trial that followed– interrogating both the silence and the protest that have accompanied her story ever since.

Death of an Artist Season 1 is a co-production between Pushkin Industries, Somethin’ Else, and Sony Music Entertainment.

Death of an Artist Season 2 is a co-production between Pushkin Industries and Samizdat Audio.

You’ve heard of Jackson Pollock but you may have never heard of Lee Krasner. Krasner was an artist, Pollock’s wife, and the woman who made him famous. She also changed everything about the landscape of modern art. This is a story about love, power, alcoholism and an ill-timed death. Hosted by curator, author, and broadcaster Katy Hessel, this 6-episode series, offers an inside look into two of the greatest artists of the 20th century, and how their vision impacts ours. 
And listen back to season one, where host Helen Molesworth revisits the artist Ana Mendieta’s death and the trial that followed– interrogating both the silence and the protest that have accompanied her story ever since.
Death of an Artist Season 1 is a co-production between Pushkin Industries, Somethin’ Else, and Sony Music Entertainment.
Death of an Artist Season 2 is a co-production between Pushkin Industries and Samizdat Audio.

Death of an Artist

You’ve heard of Jackson Pollock but you may have never heard of Lee Krasner. Krasner was an artist, Pollock’s wife, and the woman who made him famous. She also changed everything about the landscape of modern art. This is a story about love, power, alcoholism and an ill-timed death. Hosted by curator, author, and broadcaster Katy Hessel, this 6-episode series, offers an inside look into two of the greatest artists of the 20th century, and how their vision impacts ours. 
And listen back to season one, where host Helen Molesworth revisits the artist Ana Mendieta’s death and the trial that followed– interrogating both the silence and the protest that have accompanied her story ever since.
Death of an Artist Season 1 is a co-production between Pushkin Industries, Somethin’ Else, and Sony Music Entertainment.
Death of an Artist Season 2 is a co-production between Pushkin Industries and Samizdat Audio.

Episode 5: The Kiss of Death

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Artist, musician and writer Audrey Flack shares her firsthand accounts of the downtown New York City art scene in the mid-twentieth-century and a song she and her band, The History of Art, wrote about Jackson Pollock. 

Flack passed away in June. For more about her life, see “Audrey Flack, Creator of Vibrant Photorealist Art, Dies at 93.” 

Artist, musician and writer Audrey Flack shares her firsthand accounts of the downtown New York City art scene in the mid-twentieth-century and a song she and her band, The History of Art, wrote about Jackson Pollock. 
Flack passed away in June. For more about her life, see “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/03/arts/audrey-flack-dead.html">Audrey Flack, Creator of Vibrant Photorealist Art, Dies at 93</a>.”

Bonus: The Women on the Scene with Audrey Flack

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Katy speaks with Eleanor Nairne, who first introduced her to Lee Kranser’s work. Back in 2019, Nairne exhibited a groundbreaking retrospective of Lee Krasner’s work while she was senior curator at the Barbican Art Gallery in London. Today she is the Keith L. and Catherine Sacks Curator and Head of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In this episode, a dive into Krasner’s artistic career. 

Artwork Discussed:

Joan Miro Constellations (1940-41)

Mosaic Table (1947)

Stop and Go (1949)

Prophecy (1956)

Birth (1956)

Three in Two (1956)

Pablo Picasso Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907)

Earth Green (1957)

Katy speaks with Eleanor Nairne, who first introduced her to Lee Kranser’s work. Back in 2019, Nairne exhibited a groundbreaking retrospective of Lee Krasner’s work while she was senior curator at the Barbican Art Gallery in London. Today she is the Keith L. and Catherine Sacks Curator and Head of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In this episode, a dive into Krasner’s artistic career. 
Artwork Discussed:
<a href="https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/all-works#!#filterName:Series_constellations,resultType:masonry">Joan Miro Constellations (1940-41)</a>
<a href="https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/mosaic-table-1947-©-pollock-krasner-foundation-lee-krasner/aQEvEccWZLvrZw?hl=en">Mosaic Table (1947)</a>
<a href="https://informationaesthetic.wordpress.com/2014/09/14/lee-krasner-stop-and-go-formerly-yes-and-no/">Stop and Go (1949)</a>
<a href="https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/prophecy-1956-©-pollock-krasner-foundation-lee-krasner/jAGhydFm6sSNsw?hl=en">Prophecy (1956)</a>
<a href="https://reynoldahouse.emuseum.com/objects/316/birth">Birth (1956)</a>
<a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/storage/2000_filter/images/4/9/2/1/3211294-1-eng-GB/clar05_4116_01.jpg">Three in Two (1956)</a>
<a href="https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79766">Pablo Picasso Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907)</a>
<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/the-ginny-williams-collection-evening-sale/lee-krasner-earth-green">Earth Green (1957)</a>

Bonus: Krasner's Way with Eleanor Nairne

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1956. New York City. After Pollock’s death, Krasner balances her new role as executor of his estate and her ambitions to continue making art.

1956. New York City. After Pollock’s death, Krasner balances her new role as executor of his estate and her ambitions to continue making art.

Episode 6: A Phoenix From the Ashes

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