"Philip Guston Now" with Ethan Lasser for the Nantucket Historical Association

[@paulathistleton1339]

I very much enjoyed listening to this.

[@claureic]

The Studio is also a painting about painting, about art history. It is not merely about politics, the Klan, the violence of the late 1960s. it is about reinventing painting, using the tools of old masters. It is also about irony, irony towards evil.

[@pinkasarp2250]

Culture and many curators simply want one angle, one view point, one statement in other words patriarchy. As you rightly say for artists there is always something else going on.

[@claureic]

for Rug, 1976, the space comment was Clark Coolidge's. it was not a "rubbish comment". quite shrewd comment actually, and it sparked Guston's interest

[@kennethbarber438]

at 25:50, the quote is: "going into the studio to adjust a red to a blue". (not going home)

[@ghabarth]

nice job!

[@bed-of-roses]

Phillip Guston NOW...after two years.

[@dunsbroccoli2588]

Everyone thinks that the paintings are about the evil in others. It's about the evil in us all. Every painting is a self portrait. No wonder people can't bare to look at the work. It's telling the truth and the truth is a hard pill to swallow. The problem being: to be unable to look at your own shadow is to be vulnerable to its possession.

[@pinkasarp2250]

I'll give Lasser credit for indicating some of the layers in Guston and he clearly likes and knows much about Guston in an historical sense. But really Boston never cared for the artist and remember they pulled the show. They actively wanted to stop people seeing the work. They can never undo that. As Lasser points out they only have one painting that was gifted to them and they have only just now looked at it properly. Their pathetic attempt at explaining and censoring references just displays their ignorance further. For an intelligent look at Guston refer to Mark Godfrey's Hauser and Wirth talk. This describes more about the sensibility and methodology of the artist.

[@Kathleenpoors]

This is not a good voice to embrace the genius of Guston. The curator of Gustons retrospective at the National Gallery does a beautiful in depth lecture of the artist and his work. Highly recommend that you tube video.

[@willalwaystelehandler8450]

A true painting should be 60percent caricature 40 percent at it's best

[@michael4250]

He gave up good painting as a goal. His urge to relevance made him a cartoonist. To bad...the world lost a great painter when he got misguided by...? Thick paint does not make cartoons more than cartoons..