Hyperallergic

In Philip Guston's Nixon Drawings, a Tool Kit for Satirizing Loathsome Presidents

Philip Guston, “Untitled (Poor Richard)” (1971), ink on paper, 10 1/2 x 13 7/8 in (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless indicated otherwise) There’s the president aiming a gun at the US ...
Artnet

The Met Now Boasts the World’s Largest Collection of Philip Guston’s Work, Thanks to a 220-Piece Gift by the Artist’s Daughter

Musa Mayer, the daughter of the late artist Philip Guston (1913–80), has given her personal collection of her father’s work to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The gift, which comprises 220 works and ...
Artnet

A New Book by Philip Guston’s Daughter Explores the Origins of the Painter’s Ku Klux Klan Imagery—Read an Excerpt Here

When Philip Guston was young, social injustice and the cruelty of the world reverberated deeply through his paintings. In 1968, the United States was again in a state of profound unrest, with its ...
Hypebeast

Philip Guston’s Daughter Will Donate 220 of Her Father’s Artwork to The Met

Philip Guston’s daughter, Musa Mayer, announced that she will donate 220 works made by her father to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met). The promised gift will include 96 paintings, 124 ...
The Village Voice

Philip Guston’s Splenetic Drawings of Richard Nixon Arrive Just in Time

Progressives everywhere were shattered: How was it possible that a demagogic, thin-skinned, petty — and c’mon, the man is a congenital liar! — how was it possible that this charlatan had been elected ...
The Nation

Don’t Hide the Art of Philip Guston

Philip Guston, The Studio, 1969. (Courtesy of Hauser & Wirth; Photo: Genevieve Hanson) Philip Guston didn’t want his work to go down easy—with others or, above all, with himself. He felt himself to be ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

After 2-year delay, Philip Guston art exhibit explores his Jewish identity — under cloud of controversy

The exhibit, which has been dogged by worries about its portrayal of KKK figures, delves deep into the influential painter’s Holocaust themes and Jewish biography. BOSTON (JTA) — Many visitors to the ...
The Telegraph

The WPA in NH: Philip Guston and Musa McKim on view at the Currier Museum of Art

Courtesy photo One of the two New Hampshire-themed murals created in 1941 by artists Philip Guston and Musa McKim now on display at the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester. (Courtesy photo) MANCHESTER ...
PBS

'Philip Guston Now' portrays art of controversial and confrontational painter

Two years ago, four museums were set to present a retrospective of painter Philip Guston. But then, in one of the biggest controversies to hit the art world in the last few years, it all imploded. Now ...
The Nation

Philip Guston’s Man Beyond Redemption

Guston’s drawings of Richard Nixon stayed private until decades after the artist’s death. Alone, 1971.©The Estate of Philip Guston/Courtesy Hauser & Wirth Since the advent of television, appearances ...
insider.si.edu

Philip Guston : Nixon drawings, 1971 & 1975 / edited by Musa Mayer and Sally Radic

HMSG copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Philip Guston's late figurative paintings were met with overwhelmingly negative critical response when first shown at Marlborough ...
Hyperallergic

Philip Guston’s Line

There is still a story to be told about Philip Guston (1913–1980) and Jackson Pollock (1912–1956), who met at Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles in 1929, and were expelled the following year for ...