Philip Guston

Philip Guston: A Painter and His Muses
The Art Section

Deanna Sirlin reviews Philip Guston and The Poets at the Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice, on view through September 3, 2017. Sirlin concludes: “[Eugenio] Montale writes of his own poetry, ‘The subject matter of my poetry . . . is the human condition considered in itself.’ Whether one is looking at the earliest period of Guston’s pictorial works, […]

Philip Guston @ the Gallerie dell’Accademia
ARTnews

Sarah Douglas reviews Philip Guston and The Poets at the Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice, on view through September 3, 2017. Douglas writes that “the show, curated by Guston scholar Kosme de Baranano, is built–somewhat loosely–around Guston’s reading of and relationships with poets. There are the whimsical works on paper he made to illustrate his wife Musa […]

America After the Fall: Painting in the 1930s
The Guardian

Laura Cumming reviews America After the Fall: Painting in the 1930s at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, on view through June 4, 2017. Cumming writes: “In the truest sense, these works are signs of the times. They hold an entire American decade intact with their images of factories, docks, gas pumps and turbines, of […]