Posted inArt Gifts Guston, Philip Mayer, Musa Metropolitan Museum of Art Museums The Philip Guston Hoard: A Boon or Overkill? The gift of 220 artworks from the artist’s foundation to the august Metropolitan Museum of Art seems at odds with the institution it hopes to become. Posted by By Roberta Smith
Posted inArt Gifts Guston, Philip Mayer, Musa Metropolitan Museum of Art Museums The Philip Guston Hoard: A Boon or Overkill? The gift of 220 artworks from the artist’s foundation to the august Metropolitan Museum of Art seems at odds with the institution it hopes to become. Posted by By Roberta Smith
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Posted inArt Fontana, Lucio Hauser & Wirth Italy Manhattan (NYC) Metropolitan Museum of Art Nineteen Hundred Sixties Sculpture Lucio Fontana, a Sculptor but So Perverse In terra cotta, clay, metal and concrete, the Argentine Italian artist overhauled the history of European sculpture. Posted by By Martha Schwendener