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

Ethan Lasser discusses the work of Philip Guston (1913–1980) as displayed in the 2022 exhibition, “Philip Guston Now,” at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Lasser is a member of the curatorial team for this major exhibition—organized by the MFA; the National Gallery of Art, Washington; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and Tate Modern, London. The exhibition foregrounds the artist’s lifelong commitment to raising difficult, even unanswerable questions. The selection of 73 paintings and 27 drawings from public and private collections features well-known works as well as others that have rarely been seen. Highlights include paintings from the 1930s that have never been on public view; a reunion of paintings from Guston’s groundbreaking Marlborough Gallery show in 1970; a striking array of small panel paintings made from 1968 to 1972; and a powerful selection of large, often apocalyptic paintings of the later 1970s that form the artist’s last major statement. In 2019, Ethan Lasser was appointed as the Chair, Art of the Americas, to oversee the MFA’s world-class collection of paintings, sculpture and decorative arts created throughout North, Central and South America over a span of 3,000 years. Before joining the MFA Boston, Ethan served as the Curator of American Art at the Harvard Art Museums. Ethan co-curated the exhibition “Winslow Homer: Eyewitness” and was the lead curator for “The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1776-1820. This presentation at the Nantucket Whaling Museum was sponsored by The Friends of the Nantucket Historical Association.