John Yau: On Guston

In partnership with the University of Montana’s Creative Writing Program, MAM presents poet, art critic and curator John Yau, who discusses the artist Philip Guston. Yau is the author of numerous works of art criticism and artists’ books, including A Thing Among Things: The Art of Jasper Johns (2008) and The United States of Jasper Johns (1996). He recently contributed to the monograph, John Buck, published by Marquand Books, and has written on artists such as Andy Warhol, Joe Coleman, James Castle, and Kay WalkingStick.
Yau has been the arts editor of the Brooklyn Rail since 2004 and teaches at the Mason Gross School of the Arts and Rutgers University.