The Art World Recovers From Its Guston Derangement Syndrome

You’ll recall that a group of museum officials pulled the rug out from under a 2020 retrospective of the seminal painter’s work. The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new exhibition shows we’ve moved on.

Sarah Muehlbauer via the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Philip Guston, 'The Palette,' 1975. Sarah Muehlbauer via the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Have our cultural institutions recovered from their collective case of Guston Derangement Syndrome? You’ll recall that a group of museum officials pulled the rug out from under a 2020 retrospective of the seminal painter’s work, “Philip Guston Now,” due to their trepidation about just how “the powerful message of social and racial justice that is at the center of Philip Guston’s work can be more clearly interpreted.” 

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