Most artists benefit from developing a signature style. Philip Guston refused, departing mid-career from the gestural flourishes that had become a hallmark of his abstract work in favor of ...

If you’re in Venice and experiencing Biennale fatigue (endless queues everywhere, and so much Instagramming going on) there’s a miraculous antidote to all that. At the Gallerie Dell’Accademia—home to ...

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 ...

Anybody who has seen one of Philip Guston’s representational paintings knows the rest of them. I mean that in a strictly literal sense: The visual universe that Guston began creating in the late 1960s ...

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 ...

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 ...

It is at once funny, frightening and perversely comforting to see Richard Nixon rendered with a phallus for a nose. This might not always be the case. But today, at least as far as the late Philip ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about art and culture in New York City and beyond. Philip Guston: Painter, 1957 – 1967, which opened in Chelsea at Hauser ...

Is now the right time for “Philip Guston Now”? Opening May 1 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the show is touted as the first major retrospective of the artist’s work in decades. It was originally ...

The exhibition Philip Guston: 1969–1979 at Hauser & Wirth (September 9–October 30, 2021) blows open a hole in nearly all the narratives of American art from that turbulent decade, though you would not ...

In 1934, two young artists drove from Los Angeles in a beat-up car to Mexico, to create a powerful artwork about repression. It was concealed — and then forgotten. By Victoria Burnett The Jewish ...