On the occasion of ‘Life With P. Philip Guston: Paintings and Drawings 1964 – 1978,’ an exhibition of works dedicated to the artist’s marriage to poet Musa McKim, and the corresponding new book from Hauser & Wirth Publishers, ‘Life with P.: Journals, 1966–1976,' by Musa McKim Guston, please join us each Saturday (25 April – 20 June) at Hauser & Wirth 18th Street for looping screenings of ‘Philip Guston: A Life Lived.’ In this documentary film directed by Michael Blackwood and produced in 1981, Philip Guston speaks candidly about the philosophy of his painting and the psychological motivations for his work.

‘PHILIP GUSTON: A LIFE LIVED’
Directed by Michael Blackwood
58 minutes

Saturday screening schedule (approximate):
10 – 10.58 am
10.58 – 11.56 am
11.56 am – 12.54 pm
12.54 – 1.52 pm
1.52 – 2.50 pm
2.50 – 3.48 pm
3.48 – 4.46 pm
4.46 – 5.44 pm

All screenings are free, and the film will play on loop every Saturday from 25 April – 20 June in the amphitheater at Hauser & Wirth 18th Street. No registration is required.

About Philip Guston
Philip Guston (1913 – 1980) is one of the great luminaries of twentieth-century art. His commitment to producing work from genuine emotion and lived experience ensures its enduring impact. Guston’s legendary career spanned half a century, from 1930 to 1980. His paintings—particularly the liberated and instinctual forms of his late work—continue to exert a powerful influence on younger generations of contemporary painters. For an in-depth overview of his career, click here.

About Michael Blackwood Productions
Michael Blackwood Productions is an independent production company that has produced over 150 documentaries on the arts and its contributors, with a focus on architecture and architects, art and artists, dance and choreographers, and music and composers. The collection features over 1,000 participants or subjects, and spans over six decades of documentation, beginning in the 1960s and including earlier material, through the second decade of the 21st Century. The films serve as primary documents for educational and archival purposes, as well as informative and special interest pieces for the general public. A growing number of educational institutions, libraries, museums and various media outlets are acquiring the films around the world. The company is dedicated to preserving the underlying material and digitizing its analogue portfolio. The collection itself is one of the largest and most significant of its kind.

About 'Life With P.: Philip Guston: Paintings and Drawings 1964 - 1978'
‘Life with P’ illuminates an intimate and rarely observed facet of Philip Guston’s art. While this groundbreaking 20th century master is best known for raw, painterly explorations of sociopolitical power and sobering inspections of human nature, this exhibition at Hauser & Wirth’s 18th Street space showcases a selection of Guston’s more intimate paintings and works on paper in which Guston ruminates on his marriage to poet Musa McKim and their lives together in Woodstock. The works on view will include a collection of Guston’s ‘Poem Pictures,’ drawings that respond to his wife’s poetry, as well as three large-scale figurative paintings that have never before been exhibited. ‘Life with P’ coincides with the release of a new book from Hauser & Wirth Publishers by the same name, an illustrated compilation of Musa McKim’s previously unpublished journals from 1966 – 1976, contextualized by the couple’s daughter, Musa Mayer.