A Reading By Musa Mayer, author of ‘Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston’

Coinciding with a new exhibition of Philip Guston’s work at our Limmatstrasse gallery, please join us at the Hauser & Wirth Publishers Bookshop on Saturday 8 June for a reading by Musa Mayer.

Mayer will be reading passages from ‘Night Studio,’ her classic memoir of her father Philip Guston, and from a forthcoming book of her mother, Musa McKim’s memoirs.

From Friday 7 June, an exhibition of Guston's late figurative paintings, ‘Singularities,’ will be on view at our Limmatstrasse gallery, featuring both well-known paintings and never-before exhibited works. Curated in collaboration with Mayer, the exhibition explores the liberated motifs and instinctual forms that emerged in Guston’s late works as they continued to evolve until his death in 1980.

Free to attend, no booking necessary.

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About Musa Mayer
In 2015, Musa Mayer retired from a 25 career as a cancer advocate to focus full time on her father’s legacy, working with Hauser & Wirth to curate Guston exhibitions in New York, London, Hong Kong and Los Angeles. Among other books and catalogues, a monograph she edited on the Nixon drawings won an international art prize in 2017.

In addition to managing the Guston estate, Mayer is President of The Guston Foundation, whose legacy projects include the website PhilipGuston.org, built around a 50-year chronology of Guston’s career and the catalogues raisonné of his paintings, drawings and archives that detail all exhibitions, bibliography and holdings in museum collections around the world. In 2022, Mayer promised her extensive personal collection of her father’s work to the Metropolitan Museum of Art when the new Modern and Contemporary Wing opens at the end of the decade.

About ‘Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston’
Night Studio is both a deeply personal account of growing up in the shadow of a great artist and a daughter’s quest to better understand her father, based on letters, notes, and interviews. First published to critical acclaim in 1988, a richly illustrated new edition was released last year, featuring a new afterword by Mayer that reflects on the recent reception of Guston’s work and the afterlife of her memoir.

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‘Philip Guston. Singularities’ is on view at Hauser & Wirth Zurich, Limmatstrasse from 7 June – 7 September 2024.