The MFA Boston embraced hard conversations in its Philip Guston show. Why doesn’t it examine its collection just as critically?
That subject matter sparked aNow, an expanded curatorial team in Boston is presenting an exhibition loosely organized chronologically and stylistically over seven galleries . In essence, the curators present Guston’s studio as a site of privileged resistance.. Private Collection. © The Estate of Philip Guston, courtesy of Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, which features a self-portrait of Guston as a Klansman.
Once inside the boxed-in space, the portrait confronts us. We can’t step away to view it at a distance , and the space is too claustrophobic to spend too much time with it. This socially driven biographical approach was always the show’s focus . Guston’s voice figures prominently in the wall text and labels, and the curators have achieved a sensitive balance between interpretation and image, allowing Guston mostly to speak for himself.
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