[Lecture / Panel]
Telling Stories: Making Sense of Philip Guston

About This Event

In 1962 Philip Guston was the first person to be given a one-man show at the Guggenheim Museum. By 1970, he turned his back on abstraction and the whole New York art world, spending the last ten years of his life blazing out enormous, sometimes ferocious, often bleakly witty figurative canvases. In this talk, Kaufmann will describe the logic of Guston’s career, explaining why his reversals make sense and why Guston remains a painter of crucial urgency.