What museums can learn from Philip Guston and his frank take on âwhite culpabilityâ
By Murray Whyte Globe Staff,Updated January 6, 2021, 3:42 p.m.
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Philip Guston s Riding Around, from 1969.Genevieve Hanson/The Estate of Philip Guston, courtesy Hauser & Wirth Private Collection
ANDOVER â Itâs right there on the wall of the little rotunda at the Addison Gallery of American Art: Philip Gustonâs âCorridor,â a 1969 painting of a diminutive white-hooded Klansman tilting his head to read a clock on the wall. Itâs the only place around here youâre likely to see such a thing for a while, despite best-laid plans to the contrary. More than that, itâs a window into the museum worldâs slow lope of change alongside a culture in sudden fast-forward.
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