Hyperallergic

Flesh and Bones: Philip Guston’s “Thingness”

Philip Guston, “Painter” (1959). oil on canvas, 65 x 69 inches. High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Purchase with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) ...
Hyperallergic

Philip Guston Mural Warning Against Fascism Restored in Mexico

A long-neglected fresco by Canadian-American artist Philip Guston has finally been restored to its original splendor. Unveiled at the end of January at the Regional Museum of Michoacán in Mexico, “The ...
The New York Times

Are Philip Guston’s Teenage Cartoons the Key to His Klan Images?

A fresh crop of apprentice cartoons — now public property — from his pen at The Junior Times may add to our understanding of Guston and his art. By Walker Mimms Before Philip Guston developed the loud ...
The Arts Desk

Philip Guston, Tate Modern review - a compelling look at an artist who derided the KKK

Hannah Arendt’s phrase “the banality of evil” sums up the ethos of these cartoon-like pictures. Made in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Guston used black comedy to underscore what he described as “the ...
Observer

Tate Modern Reveals Philip Guston’s Hoodwink

In October of 1970, the painter Philip Guston debuted a new show of figurative artworks at the Marlborough Gallery in New York. The exhibition has since lived on in infamy. The Canadian-American ...
The Village Voice

Master Baffler: How Philip Guston Gave Form to Doubt

“Paul Valery once said that a bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning,” Philip Guston told an interviewer in 1966, adding, “In a painting in which this is a room, this is a chair, this is a head, ...
The New York Times

Philip Guston

The rare murals in the Cohen Federal Building celebrate vital American values of dignity and community. Now they could meet the same fate as the White House’s East Wing. By Holland Cotter In 1934, two ...