Musa Mayer, the daughter of the late artist Philip Guston (1913–80), has given her personal collection of her father’s work to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The gift, which comprises 220 works and ...

Philip Guston’s daughter, Musa Mayer, announced that she will donate 220 works made by her father to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met). The promised gift will include 96 paintings, 124 ...

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) ...

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 ...

“Draw Them In, Paint them Out: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston,” a new exhibit at the Jewish Museum, juxtaposes work by two innovative American artists of different generations and ...

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 ...

Philip Guston’s paintings of Ku Klux Klansmen are perhaps his most familiar works, showing clownish versions of the robed terrorists driving around, smoking cigars, and even painting in the studio, as ...

The daughter of artist Philip Guston has donated 220 of his works to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, part of a burst of year-end gifts to art institutions. Musa Mayer’s donation includes ...

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 ...

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 ...