Guston Klan News Today

The museums should make urgent use of the delay already caused by the pandemic rather than lurch towards lengthy postponement

The show makes its final U.S. stop at the National Gallery without feared protests. But some caricatures in the artist’s “Poor Richard” series need better explanation.

A sanitized Philip Guston retrospective tries so hard not to offend that it skirts around the most interesting aspect of Guston’s work: his meditations on…

A gift from his daughter includes 96 paintings and 124 drawings, which will make the museum the largest holder of work by the celebrated and provocative artist.

A delayed, divisive, and long-awaited retrospective finally debuts in Boston. 

On Oct. 16, 1970, American painter Philip Guston, currently the subject of a potent and controversial retrospective at the Museum of Fine Arts in Bost

The long-delayed survey, now wrapped in the equivalent of caution tape, opens at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. It’s been a learning-curve climb for four venues.

SO AS NOT TO BURY THE LEDE, as the old journalistic saying goes, I’ll make things perfectly clear right from the outset: It’s very likely that this 1936 black-and-white photo of a protest in Brooklyn captures two hitherto unknown paintings by Romare Bearden, one of the twentieth century’s most celebrated African American artists. If that’s the case, these would be among the earliest, if not the earliest, painted works by Bearden on record. And, in their depiction of lynchings, they would...

Philip Guston in his Woodstock studio, 1964. (Photo by Dan Budnick / Courtesy of Laurence King Publishing) You might remember that a retrospective of the paintings of Philip Guston was planned to open last June at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, and would then have traveled to Houston, London, and Boston. When the Covid-19 pandemic forced the museum to close, a new tour schedule was set: The show would open at the Tate Modern in London in February 2021, with dates in Washington, Bost...

Philip Gustons daughter on his Klan paintings: Theyre about white culpability – including his own Flatlands, 1970, by Philip Guston. His Klan paintings were condemned as wilfully inept at the time but no one objected to the subject matter. Photograph: ©The Estate of Philip Guston Flatlands, 1970, by Philip Guston. His Klan paintings were condemned as wilfully inept at the time but no one objected to the subject matter. Photograph: ©The Estate of Philip Guston The postponement last ye...