04/15/2026
On April 23 at 6:30 p.m ET, Hauser & Wirth will host a reading from the soon-to-be-published book, “Life with P: Journals, 1966–1976’” by its editor Musa Mayer, President of The Guston Foundation and daughter of Musa McKim and Philip Guston. The book brings together Musa McKim’s journals and poetry, drawing an intimate and candid portrait of McKim’s life as a writer and her marriage to Guston. Copies of the book will be available for purchase during the event in advance of the May 19 publication date, and Musa Mayer will be available to sign books after the reading. Find more information and register: https://bit.ly/4mAAr7F
“This beautiful mosaic of a book offers a treasure trove of insights into the highly sensitive visual artist and poet Musa McKim Guston and her husband Philip Guston…. The book offers a fascinating peek into the couple’s daily life and travels, and Guston’s intense creativity and artistic context.” —Max Hollein, Director and CEO The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Opening April 21 at Hauser & Wirth’s 18th Street space, the exhibition “Life With P. Philip Guston: Paintings and Drawings 1964 – 1978” will showcase a selection of Guston’s more intimate paintings and works on paper in which Guston ruminates on his marriage to McKim and their lives together in Woodstock.
Philip Guston, The Rest Is For You, 1975. Oil on canvas; 68½ × 70¼ in. | Book image courtesy Hauser & Wirth
