“PROBABLY THE only thing one can really learn”, Philip Guston eventually concluded, “is the capacity to be able to change.” The modern artist’s fate, he said, was “constant change”. As a painter he ...

Last year, a firestorm of controversy ignited when four leading international museums postponed a long-awaited Philip Guston retrospective over concerns that the artist’s paintings of hooded Klansmen ...

Nearly a decade after Richard Nixon won the White House in 1968 with merely 43 percent of the popular vote, nine years after the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy, four years ...

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 ...

After Philip Guston abandoned abstract painting in the late 1960s, professional allies and friends began to abandon him, believing that he had betrayed his gift and his art. Visitors to the Guston ...

Philip Guston's "Cigar" in the McMeen Gallery of the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art (photo John Seed/Hyperallergic) SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — Philip Guston’s “Cigar” (1969), now hanging in the McMeen ...

An open letter argued that postponing the exhibition was a way for the institutions involved to avoid controversy and skirt around pressing issues of racial injustice Nearly 100 prominent artists are ...

Philip Guston, “Green Rug” (1976), oil on canvas, The Museum of Modern Art, gift of Edward R. Broida in honor of Ann Temkin, 2005 The Long Run is a temporary reinstallation of the permanent collection ...

As late as he came to the style, by 1957 Philip Guston was a highly admired first-generation Abstract Expressionist — a phrase he hated. How “late” was Guston? In the 1940s peers like Arshile Gorky, ...

“What Endures,” an exhibition of 13 works by New York School painter Philip Guston, has just opened online at Hauser & Wirth. These paintings were made in a narrow patch of time from 1971 to 1976, the ...

Almost 100 art industry figures have called on four museums to reverse plans to postpone a major Philip Guston retrospective featuring some of the painter’s depictions of the Ku Klux Klan. In an open ...

This week, the directors of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Tate Modern in London and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston jointly released a statement ...