Two countries, two cultures, a world of difference: The coincidence between the Philip Guston retrospective’s postponement and the naming of the new Gabrielle Chanel galleries at the City of Paris Fashion Museum sheds light on the world of culture’s divisions and disarray.
The National Gallery in Washington, museums in Boston and Houston and the Tate Modern in London, which was planning a travelling exhibition of 200 works by Philip Guston due to start in 2021, have postponed it for at least three years to reformat the event in order to clarify his message of social justice and racial equality. It may be that art does not make itself well understood, but perhaps that is its essence. Curators apparently caved into staff members’ pressure over unbearable images of lynchings reworked by the artist…
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