Philip Guston Now exhibition is held at the Museum of Fine Arts.

May 1, 2022

A retrospective of the artist’s life work, it was originally scheduled to open in Boston the summer of 2020, but was delayed due to the racial tension following the police shooting of George Floyd (Guston generally included images of the Ku Klux Klan in his later work). The MFA and the the other participating museums (in Houston, Washington, D.C. and London) originally planned to postpone the exhibition until 2024, but that decision prompted substantial protests in the arts community. The works are rearranged and various media added to address the social issues of the times in which they were created and the schedule is subsequently moved up.

Sources
  • Boston Globe