Art Industry News: Philip Guston's Daughter Weighs in on the True Meaning of His Controversial Klan Paintings + Other Stories
Philip Guston, a new book about her father’s life and work, Musa Mayer reflects on the controversial postponement of a major Guston retrospective at four museums. She maintains the institutions pushed back the show out of fear, and that it was a mistake. The “paintings are essentially about white culpability—the culpability of all of us, including himself,” Mayer says. “That is why he referred to some of them as self-portraits. He wasn’t just pointing the finger at others, he was pointing it at himself. What hope is there if artists cannot examine theirselves?” ( Brexit Means C...
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