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Philip Guston

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How Asian-American Artists Made a Mark on Abstract Expressionism

by Danielle Wu January 9, 2018January 10, 2018

Asian-American artists engaged deeply and creatively with Abstract Expressionism, counter to historical views of the movement as a New York monolith.

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Alberto Savinio’s Pre-Postmodern Grotesque

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli November 4, 2017November 28, 2017

Savinio’s adulteration of old and new was highly influential in the postmodernist revolt against the strictures of formalism.

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How Philip Guston Found Salvation in Poetry

Avatar photo by Cara Ober June 21, 2017June 21, 2017

Philip Guston and the Poets, currently at the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice, shows the significant influence of poetry on Guston’s work, especially after he retreated from the art world.

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Branden Koch Looks at America and Doesn’t Like What He Sees

by John Yau April 16, 2017April 14, 2017

There are eighty works on paper in the exhibition, Branden Koch: Bald Ego at Regina Rex, all of which speak to and about the dilemma of being an artist and sympathetic human being in America under the current regime.

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When Experimental Music Resonated with Abstract Art

by Daniel Fox March 9, 2017March 8, 2017

The exhibition includes scores by John Cage and Morton Feldman, paintings by Philip Guston, sculpture and works on paper by Louise Bourgeois and David Smith, and oil paintings by Joan Mitchell.

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The Pursuit of Art, 2016

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli December 31, 2016January 15, 2017

The first painting I saw in 2016 was “Cockman Always Rises Orange” (2015): we can’t say we weren’t warned.

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Best of 2016: Our Top 20 NYC Art Shows

Avatar photo by Hyperallergic December 27, 2016December 30, 2016

This list barely scratches the surface of the city’s artistic offerings this year, from overdue retrospectives to surprising sides of artists we know well.

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Guston After Trump and Before Christmas

by John Yau December 11, 2016December 11, 2016

I don’t know if laughter is the best medicine: sometimes it is the only medicine.

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

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton November 12, 2016

Over 170 caricatures of Richard Nixon offer an instructive precedent for artists struggling to overcome political and creative blocks in one leap.

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Flesh and Bones: Philip Guston’s “Thingness”

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli April 30, 2016May 7, 2016

The idea of an abrupt transition between the abstract work and the late figuration has become so ingrained in the narrative of Guston’s career that a view suggesting a more gradual evolution might meet with resistance.

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Seeking the Real at Art Basel Miami Beach

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli December 12, 2015December 21, 2015

So where were they? An Inside Art column published in The New York Times a week before the opening of Art Basel Miami Beach dangled the prospect of a more inclusive fair this year, one that would feature “A Focus on Female Artists,” as the headline put it.

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47 Painters Exhibit Symptoms of the Philip Guston Effect

by Robert Moeller June 29, 2015

BOSTON — Before 1968, when Philip Guston more or less began working on a new body of work that would define his late career, it could be said of him, as it was of Lord Dartmouth by the poet William Cowper: this was a man “who wears a coronet and prays.”

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