Michael Prodger on Art
Oct 29, 2020
3 minutes
WHAT IS HAPPENING at Tate Modern? As a result of positioning itself as the official face of avant-garde art in this country, and explicitly setting out to expand its reach beyond the old male and western boundaries, it finds itself having to deal with cultural issues that have little to do with art itself. And it is getting itself in a terrible tangle.
The latest misstep concerns the American painter Philip Guston (1913-1980). In the 1960s Guston began to paint expressive, near cartoonish paintings — often in bubble-gum pink — full
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