Author(s): Musa Mayer

Art Theory

'Night Studio' is a memoir of Philip Guston, written by his daughter Musa Mayer.Philip Guston paintings--particularly the liberated and instinctual forms of his late work--continue to exert a powerful influence on younger generations of contemporary painters.His daughter, Musa Mayer, manages the estate of Philip Guston and is president of The Guston Foundation.She has curated exhibitions of Guston's work and written books including the memoir 'Night Studio', first published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1988.In 2022 the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that more than two hundred Guston works from her collection would be gifted to the museum - the largest single collection of works by Philip Guston to date.In 2023 there will be two major exhibitions of Guston's work:'Philip Guston Now', 2 Mar - 27 Aug 2023, National Gallery of Art in Washington.'Philip Guston', 5 Oct 2023 - 25 Feb 2024, Tate Modern, London.Co-published with Hauser&Wirth.