Page 114 - Liverpool Philharmonic 22-23 Season Coverage Book
P. 114
Philip Guston’s Painting, Smoking, Eating (1973). Photograph: © The Estate of Philip Guston
The postponement of this colossal touring survey caused international uproar in 2020
when four museums, including the Tate in London, decided that Guston’s imagery of
coarse and lumpen Klansmen was too “painful” for our times. The Tate’s own curator
was suspended for speaking out against the patronising assumption that the public
couldn’t see how mordant these paintings are. But soon we will be able to make up our
own minds with a show at Tate Modern, London, which includes some of Guston’s
greatest tragicomedies of American existence, along with the famous self-portraits
(from 5 October to 25 February 2024). LC
Dance
Pam Tanowitz at the Royal Opera House
From Everyone Keeps Me, due to be revived at the ROH in February. Photograph: Bill Cooper
Pam Tanowitz’s Everyone Keeps Me, to a string quartet by Ted Hearne, was one of the
most luminous, mysterious and satisfying recent creations for the dancers of the Royal
Ballet. The American choreographer now expands the piece into a full evening, adding a
