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Philip Guston’s Daughter Speaks Out On Postponement Of Her Father’s ShowFebruary 22, 2021 at 2:01 PM To Musa Mayer’s dismay, her father, an antiracist and the son of immigrants who had fled antisemitic persecution, was now having his complex images misrepresented and their subject matter rendered simplistically provocative. – The GuardianTags: Art, Visual, Philip Guston, Musa Mayer, 02.21.21 78 people like this. Like Philip Guston's daughter on his Klan paintings: 'They're about white culpability'February 21, 2021 at 7:00 AM The postponement last year of an exhibition of the artist’s work led to a fraught debate over race and culture. His daughter Musa Mayer fears his complex images are being misrepresentedMusa Mayer has been “holed up” in Woodstock, upstate New York, which she describes as “a liberal community in the midst of Trump land”, since the beginning of lockdown in March of last year. She is staying in a house she inherited from her parents and nearby is a building that was once the art studio of her father...Tags: Art, Books, London, Boston, Race, Painting, Culture, Art and design, Washington Dc, Exhibitions, Tate Modern, Trump, Black Lives Matter Movement, Mayer, Teitelbaum, Philip Guston 13 people like this. Like Guston exhibit re-rescheduledNovember 8, 2020 at 11:07 PM After intense criticism, Philip Guston exhibition rescheduled for 2022-24 [in print as Postponed Philip Guston show coming here in 2023] Peggy McGlone Washington Post November 7, 2020 , p. C1, 4 online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/philip-guston-exhibit-national-gallery-rescheduled/2020/11/05/de1e7220-1fa5-11eb-90dd-abd0f7086a91_story.html [Author: Mike Rhode]Tags: Comics, Mike Rhode, Philip Guston, Guston, Peggy McGlone Washington Post 29 people like this. Like Tate Suspends Star Curator Over Guston Show CriticismOctober 30, 2020 at 1:29 PM According to three sources close to the museum, managers took the decision to discipline Mark Godfrey, a senior curator of international art, after he raised objections on social media to the deferral of Philip Guston: Now, a major show which was due to include around 125 paintings and 70 drawings from 40 public and private collections. – The Art NewspaperTags: Art, Visual, Mark Godfrey, Philip Guston, 10.28.20 91 people like this. Like Guston exhibit gets yet another opening dateOctober 29, 2020 at 11:07 PM After Backlash, Philip Guston Retrospective to Open in 2022 By Julia Jacobs A version of this article appears in print on Oct. 29, 2020, Section C, Page 5 of the New York edition with the headline: After a Backlash, a Philip Guston Retrospective Will Open in 2022. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/28/arts/design/philip-guston-retrospective-date.html [Author: Mike Rhode]Tags: Comics, New York, Mike Rhode, Philip Guston, Guston, Julia Jacobs 18 people like this. Like Postponed Philip Guston Exhibition Moved Up To 2022 After Heavy CriticismOctober 29, 2020 at 8:33 AM “The National Gallery and three other major museums” — Tate Modern in London and the Museums of Fine Arts In Houston and Boston — “had announced that they were delaying the retrospective, which was originally intended to begin its tour last June, after taking into account the surging racial justice protests across the country. … Some critics said the decision to delay the retrospective amounted to self-censorship fueled by fear of controversy.” – The New York TimesTags: Art, London, Boston, Houston, National Gallery, Tate Modern, Visual, Philip Guston, 10.28.20 118 people like this. Like After The Philip Guston Show Postponement, Artists Question Relationship With The National GalleryOctober 19, 2020 at 7:15 AM The artists who signed a letter objecting to the postponement of a Guston show make a lot of potentially “controversial” art themselves, but “the artists are motivated by more than self-interest. They are concerned about the principle. And they are disgusted by institutional hypocrisy.” – Washington PostTags: Art, Visual, Philip Guston, Guston 48 people like this. Like After The Philip Guston Show Postponement, Artists Grow Wary Of The National GalleryOctober 19, 2020 at 7:15 AM The artists who signed a letter objecting to the postponement of a Guston show make a lot of potentially “controversial” art themselves, but “the artists are motivated by more than self-interest. They are concerned about the principle. And they are disgusted by institutional hypocrisy.” – Washington PostTags: Art, Uncategorized, Philip Guston, Guston 25 people like this. Like The Post's Smee on the NGA's Guston exhibit censorshipOctober 18, 2020 at 11:04 PM Absolutely no one has asked my opinion on this, but I think Smee has it right. The Philip Guston controversy is turning artists against the National Gallery [in print as A portrait of NGA's flawed reasoning]. Sebastian Smee Art critic Washington Post Oct. 17, 2020 P. C1, 4 online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/philip-guston-exhibition-postponement/2020/10/16/930d74a4-0ef5-11eb-8a35-237ef1eb2ef7_story.html [Author: Mike Rhode]Tags: Post, Comics, Washington Post, NGA, Smee, Mike Rhode, Sebastian Smee, Philip Guston, Guston 19 people like this. Like That darn Philip GustonOctober 11, 2020 at 11:07 PM National Gallery director defends postponement of show with Klan images but will rethink opening date [in print as Gallery chief: Delaying show was right call]. Peggy McGlone Washington Post Oct. 8, 2020 p. C1, 4 online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/national-gallery-postponement-guston-show-klan-images/2020/10/07/a35adb32-0831-11eb-a166-dc429b380d10_story.html [Author: Mike Rhode]Tags: Comics, Washington Post, National Gallery, Mike Rhode, Philip Guston, Peggy McGlone 50 people like this. Like Philip Guston Bluster: Why It’s Wise to Postpone a Show Depicting Cartoonish Ku Klux Klan FiguresOctober 5, 2020 at 2:56 PM Knowing that I’m sticking my head into a lion’s mouth, I strongly disagree with sanctimonious art critics, artists and scholars who have piled on against a decision by four museum directors to postpone (not to cancel) their Philip Guston Now retrospective. – Lee RosenbaumTags: Art, Ajblogs, Philip Guston, 10.02.20, Philip Guston Bluster 104 people like this. Like "But the people who run our great institutions do not want trouble. They fear controversy. They lack faith in the intelligence of their audience."October 1, 2020 at 10:04 AM "And they realize that to remind museum-goers of white supremacy today is not only to speak to them about the past, or events somewhere else. It is also to raise uncomfortable questions about museums themselves—about their class and racial foundations. For this reason, perhaps, those who run the museums feel the ground giving way beneath their feet. If they feel that in four years, 'all this will blow over,' they are mistaken. The tremors shaking us all will never end until justice and equity ar...Tags: Art, Law, Museums, Kkk, Joan, Jonas, Piper, White Supremacy, Paul Gauguin, Ann Althouse, Francis Picabia, Philip Guston, Guston, Jason Farago, Philip Guston Now Google, Matthew -RSB- Barney 45 people like this. Like Artists slam decision to postpone exhibition of KKK paintingsOctober 1, 2020 at 4:46 AM 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.Tags: News, Stories, Kkk, Philip Guston 30 people like this. Like Artists slam decision to postpone exhibition of Philip Guston's KKK paintingsOctober 1, 2020 at 4:46 AM 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.Tags: Cnn, Kkk, Philip Guston 4 people like this. Like Sense or censorship? Row over Klan images in Tate’s postponed showSeptember 27, 2020 at 2:15 AM Philip Guston depicted ‘the banality of evil’ but galleries in the UK and US fear his work could be misinterpretedBest known for his abstract art, Philip Guston also dipped into figurative painting with a repeating motif of white-hooded Ku Klux Klan members. Now these images have caused the postponement of a major retrospective to honour him – and a heated row within the art world.Four institutions – the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Museum of Fine ...Tags: UK, London, US, Painting, Tate Modern, Ku Klux Klan, Black Lives Matter Movement, Tate, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Philip Guston, Philip Guston Now, Washington the Museum of Fine Arts Houston 6 people like this. Like 4 major museums have postponed a retrospective for a highly respected painter — Philip Guston — because some of the paintings have images of the KKK.September 26, 2020 at 7:05 AM I'm reading "Delay of Philip Guston Retrospective Divides the Art World/;Philip Guston Now' has become Philip Guston in 2024, after four museums postponed an artist’s show that includes Klan imagery."There's no reason to think Guston liked the Klan. It's for the viewer to gaze on these painterly cartoons... ... and wonder what the hell is this supposed to mean? or just to think hmmm, there's that or whatever you think in a museum... those bastions of white supremacy!Maybe you think, yeah, this i...Tags: Art, London, Instagram, Law, Ukraine, Drawing, Museums, Kkk, University Of Chicago, Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, Nuance, Ford Foundation, Nixon, Richard Nixon, Godfrey 88 people like this. Like Blockbuster Philip Guston Show Postponed Over Concerns About KKK ImagerySeptember 25, 2020 at 4:32 PM On Monday, the National Gallery quietly posted a joint statement signed by directors of all four museums set to host the show: Kaywin Feldman (National Gallery), Frances Morris (Tate Modern), Matthew Teitelbaum (MFA Boston), and Gary Tinterow (MFA Houston). The statement said the exhibition was being pushed “until a time at which we think that the powerful message of social and racial justice that is at the center of Philip Guston’s work can be more clearly interpreted.” – ARTnewsTags: Art, Houston, National Gallery, Visual, Philip Guston, Gary Tinterow, 09.23.20 138 people like this. Like Mexican Muralists Changed the Course of 20th-Century American Art. A New Exhibit Explores Their InfluenceFebruary 20, 2020 at 11:29 AM Jackson Pollock’s best-known influences include European greats like Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró. But often overlooked is the artist’s time at New York’s Experimental Workshop, founded in 1936 by David Alfaro Siqueiros, who along with Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco made up “los tres grandes” who led the postrevolution Mexican muralism movement. Siqueiros founded the Workshop in New York City in 1936, guided by the philosophy that in order to make truly radical art, artists must ...Tags: Art, Europe, New York, News, California, Mexico, New York City, Uncategorized, America, United States, Pablo Picasso, States, Museum of Modern Art, Detroit, Whitney, Franklin Delano Roosevelt 71 people like this. Like Best of 2018: Instrumental and Recital CDsDecember 30, 2018 at 9:15 PM Best of 2018: Instrumental and Recital CDs
Best Recital
Hanging Gardens
Works by Claude Debussy, Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, and Anton Webern
Jacob Greenberg, piano with Tony Arnold, soprano
Rather than the customary bifurcation, Impressionism and Expressionism are related to one another on Hanging Gardens, pianist Jacob Greenberg’s loving curated, beautifully performed double CD. He is joined by soprano Tony Arnold for Arnold Schoenberg’s song cycle The Book of the ...Tags: Religion, Time, Fox, Steve Reich, Beethoven, Cds, Huddersfield, Montreal, Best Of, David Mitchell, Steve, Mack, Ballon, Roche, Bach, Esa Pekka Salonen 8 people like this. Like James Romig – Still (CD Review)August 6, 2018 at 2:03 PM James Romig
Still
Ashlee Mack, piano
New World Records 80802
Composer James Romig has spent the past twenty years cultivating a body of work that embodies both rigorous structuring and a wide-ranging gestural palette. As is explained in Bruce Quaglia’s excellent liner notes for Romig’s first New World CD, Still, there is good reason for these two aspects to be so important to Romig. His training as a composer was with American modernists Charles Wuorinen and Milton Babbit...Tags: Religion, Steve Reich, Piano, Mack, Feldman, Contemporary Classical, Milton Babbitt, Charles Wuorinen, CD Review, New World Records, Philip Guston, File Under, Romig, Christian Carey, Cbcarey, Sequenza21 72 people like this. Like MiscellanyMarch 10, 2018 at 2:48 PM The richly appointed new season of Mostly Mozart includes Ashley Fure's The Force of Things, John Adams and Lucinda Childs's Available Light (with sets by Frank Gehry), Bernstein's Mass, Michael Pisaro's A wave and waves, and a big new outdoor choral piece by John Luther Adams.... JLA's Become Desert, the quasi-sequel to Become Ocean, has its première at the Seattle Symphony March 29-31 and travels to Berkeley's Cal Performances April 7-8. He writes about the new score in Slate.... From March 2...Tags: Music, La, Brooklyn, New York Times, Philadelphia, John Adams, Berkeley, Klang, Mozart, Moma, Alex Ross, Seattle Symphony, Stockhausen, Handel, Daphne, Kurt Weill 58 people like this. Like “The Artist Project” Reveals What 127 Influential Artists See When They Look at Art: An Acclaimed Video Series from The Metropolitan Museum of ArtFebruary 2, 2018 at 12:30 PM Photographer Nan Goldin’s celebrated series The Ballad of Sexual Dependency would likely have sent portraitist Julia Margaret Cameron reeling for her smelling salts, but the century that divides these two photographers' active periods is less of a barrier than one might assume.
As Goldin notes in the above episode of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s online series, The Artist Project, both made a habit of photographing people with whom they were intimately acquainted. (Cameron’s subjects...Tags: Google, Art, College, Life, New York City, Museums, Cameron, Lewis Carroll, Virginia Woolf, Alice, Julia Margaret Cameron, Nick Cave, Jeff Koons, Public Domain, Facebook Twitter, Roz Chast 101 people like this. Like Book Notes - Scott Esposito "The Doubles"September 20, 2017 at 12:32 PM In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book.
Previous contributors include Bret Easton Ellis, Kate Christensen, Lauren Groff, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Jesmyn Ward, Heidi Julavits, Hari Kunzru, and many others.
Scott Esposito's The Doubles brilliantly blends memoir with film criticism.
Alvaro Enrigue wrote of the book:
"Scott Esposito is a true American cosmopolitan—full of ideas a...Tags: Music, Youtube, Time, David, Eminem, Lars von Trier, Banksy, Killer Mike, Boyhood, David Lynch, Jay, Alex, Terrence Malick, Starr, Stephen, Robert Altman 121 people like this. Like Musa Mayer, Daughter of Philip Guston, Interviewed in The TelegraphJuly 31, 2017 at 6:17 PM Musa Mayer, daughter of painter Philip Guston, is interviewed in The Telegraph this week, as she reflects on her father’s expansive and innovative body of work, and the toll it occasionally took on her family. “My father was never overtly cruel,” she says. “He was just largely absent, working. From an early age, I was given to […]Tags: Art, Telegraph, Art News, Philip Guston, Musa Mayer Daughter of Philip Guston, Musa Mayer 7 people like this. Like Every 'Simpsons' Superfan Should Follow This Surreal Instagram AccountJune 20, 2017 at 1:05 PM A post shared by Scenic Simpsons (@scenic_simpsons) on May 8, 2017 at 3:50am PDT
When it comes to TV shows with hallucinatory visuals that verge on abstract art, “Twin Peaks” gets all the credit. But in the small suburb of Springfield, between the delicious donut breaks and mischievous youths, there are brief moments of confounding beauty, too. Yeah dude, we’re talking about “The Simpsons.”
A “Simpsons” fan who prefers to remain anonymous has been compiling the most quietly captivat...Tags: News, Salvador Dalí, Huffington Post, Priscilla Frank, Springfield, Philip Guston, Simpsons A Simpsons 23 people like this. Like Venice – “Philip Guston and the Poets” at Gallerie dell’Accademia Through September 3rd, 2017May 10, 2017 at 2:45 AM Philip Guston, The Line (1978), via Art Observed Aiming for a head start on the hustle and bustle of the Venice Biennale Vernissage, the Galerie dell’Accademia in Venice’s (Neighborhood) opened its entry for the week’s proceedings this past Monday; an exhibition tracing the vivid graphic practice of artist Philip Guston, and his work’s interaction with […]Tags: Art, Show, Venice, Art News, Featured Post, Gallerie, Philip Guston, Gallerie dell'Accademia 42 people like this. Like Fabulous! Philip Guston & the Poets at Accademia in Venice - To Ernest, with LoveMay 8, 2017 at 4:55 PM The Line by Philip Guston (1977) (Venice, Italy) I have eagerly anticipated the arrival of Philip Guston and the Poets. When I lived in the hills of Los Feliz, a section of Los Angeles, one of my dearest friends and neighbors was Ernest Lieblich, a wealthy German Jew who was a great supporter of the arts. One day, Ernest insisted that we dash to the City of Hope hospital to see a mural he had discovered. He drove, speeding down the freeway at age 82, to a decrepit building. After we enter...Tags: Travel, New York, Los Angeles, Venice, Los Angeles Times, Venice Italy, Elliot, Ernest, Los Feliz, Musa, Galleria, Eliot, Goldstein, City of Hope, Venetian Cat - Venice Blog, Accademia 74 people like this. Like Viva Arte Viva! Visiting the Collateral Events at Venice Art Biennale will take you off the Beaten PathApril 3, 2017 at 10:55 AM Courtyard of Palazzo Pisani - Photo: Cat Bauer (Venice, Italy) La Biennale's 57th International Art Exhibition is nearly upon us. On May 10, 2017, art lovers from all over the globe will flood Venice with sparkling energy, as only those dynamic individuals from the World of Art can do, wandering around town, wacky and wonderful, in colorful fashions, to visit the preview. Really, I think we would have suffocated long ago here in the ancient lagoon city without Biennale and contemporary ar...Tags: Travel, Hong Kong, Wales, Catalonia, Venice, Macao, Marco, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Campo, VENEZIA, Christine Macel, Victor Pinchuk, Samson Young, West Kowloon Cultural District, Tana, Chiesa 85 people like this. Like Viva Arte Viva! Venice Biennale Arte 2017 Announces Collateral EventsMarch 31, 2017 at 4:55 AM Courtyard of Palazzo Pisani - Photo: Cat Bauer (Venice, Italy) La Biennale's 57th International Art Exhibition is nearly upon us. On May 10, 2017, art lovers from all over the globe will flood Venice with sparkling energy, as only those dynamic individuals from the World of Art can do, wandering around town in colorful fashion to visit the preview.In addition to the main events at Giardini and Arsenale, scattered throughout Venice are collateral events, which are admitted by the curator, ...Tags: Travel, Hong Kong, Wales, Catalonia, Venice, Macao, Marco, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Campo, VENEZIA, Christine Macel, Victor Pinchuk, Samson Young, West Kowloon Cultural District, Chiesa, Exhibition La Biennale 75 people like this. Like New York — Philip Guston: “Laughter in the Dark” at Hauser & Wirth Through January 28th, 2017January 20, 2017 at 12:42 PM Philip Guston, Alone (1971), all images via Osman Can Yerebakan for Art Observed On view at Hauser & Wirth’s temporary 22nd street location, Laughter in the Dark compiles one hundred and eighty pieces created by artist Philip Guston between 1971 and 1975. Working feverishly at his Woodstock studio in response to the highly contentious, corruption-filled presidency of Richard Nixon, […]Tags: Art, New York, Show, Art News, Featured Post, Woodstock, Richard Nixon, Hauser, Osman Can Yerebakan, Wirth, Hauser Wirth, Philip Guston 35 people like this. Like |