# Event Details - **Event Name**: Reading & Book Launch: Musa Mayer reads from ‘Life with P.’ - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 23 Apr, 2026 at 06:30 pm – Thu, 23 Apr, 2026 at 07:30 pm (-04:00) - **Event Description**: Join us for a reading from ‘Life with P.’ with President of The Guston Foundation and the artist and poet’s daughter, Musa MayerAbout this EventOn the occasion of the exhibition ‘Life With P. Philip Guston: Paintings and Drawings 1964–1978’ and the release of the corresponding new book from Hauser & Wirth Publishers, ‘Life with P.: Journals, 1966–1976’ by Musa McKim Guston, please join us for a reading from the book by its editor Musa Mayer, President of The Guston Foundation and daughter of Musa McKim and Philip Guston.‘Life With P. Philip Guston: Paintings and Drawings 1964 – 1978,’ 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 focuses on a selection of Guston’s more intimate paintings and works on paper in which the artist ruminates on his marriage to poet Musa McKim and their lives together in Woodstock. The works on view 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.The corresponding book, 'Life with P.: Journals, 1966–1976,' 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 the esteemed painter Philip Guston. The book spans a critical decade in the couple’s marriage as well as a period of profound change and productivity in Guston’s artistic practice that saw the creation of some of his most iconic late works. McKim’s writings capture daily life at their home and studio in Woodstock, trips to New York City, travels abroad to Mexico and Italy, and time spent at various artist residencies. A rich collection of artworks and archival images documents the couple’s domestic and social lives and the fellow artists and writers who made up their world. Alongside her introduction, notes by their daughter Musa Mayer provide valuable context to her mother’s writings. Complementing Mayer’s own celebrated memoir 'Night Studio' (1988), 'Life with P.' is an extraordinary window into McKim’s singular experience of the world.Copies of the book will be available for purchase during the event, and Musa Mayer will be available to sign books after the reading. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/03215540-2998-11f1-9b78-2b8de5d122b0-rimg-w1110-h740-dcd9d9d9-gmir.jpg About Philip GustonPhilip 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 Musa MayerIn 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 '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. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/new-york/reading-and-book-launch-musa-mayer-reads-from-‘life-with-p’/100001984933608857 - **Event Categories**: Art, fine-arts, literary-art, Exhibitions - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Freading-book-launch-musa-mayer-reads-from-life-with-p-tickets-1984933608857 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: New York - **state**: NY - **country**: United States - **location**: Hauser & Wirth - **lat**: 40.7443733 - **long**: -74.0050859 - **full address**: Hauser & Wirth, 443 West 18th Street, New York, United States ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: Hauser & Wirth New York (https://allevents.in/org/hauser-and-wirth-new-york/22554168) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/e2131037bd6896c3bba418ea202508ee9b69de0add11266102525b598e716a62-rimg-w1200-h600-dcaaa9ac-gmir.jpg?v=1774586832 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/15425c720a86c1af972ac34f70619e76059c871a8343e915ad5286c22e10b87d-rimg-w400-h400-dcababac-gmir.jpg?v=1774586832 ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? - **A:** Thu, 23 Apr, 2026 at 06:30 pm (-04:00) - **Q**: Where is the event happening? - **A:** Hauser & Wirth, 443 West 18th Street, New York, United States - **Q**: What is the ticket price? - **A:** starting from 0 up to 0 USD - **Q**: Who is organizing the event? - **A:** Hauser & Wirth New York - **Q**: What type of event is this? - **A:** Art, fine-arts, literary-art, Exhibitions - **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Reading & Book Launch: Musa Mayer reads from ‘Life with P.’ ? - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Reading & Book Launch: Musa Mayer reads from ‘Life with P.’", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/e2131037bd6896c3bba418ea202508ee9b69de0add11266102525b598e716a62-rimg-w1200-h600-dcaaa9ac-gmir.jpg?v=1774586832", "startDate": "2026-04-23T18:30:00-04:00", "endDate": "2026-04-23T19:30:00-04:00", "url": "https://allevents.in/new-york/reading-and-book-launch-musa-mayer-reads-from-‘life-with-p’/100001984933608857", "eventStatus": "https://schema.org/EventScheduled", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Hauser & Wirth", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "443 West 18th Street", "postalCode": "10011", "addressLocality": "New York", "addressRegion": "NY", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "40.7443733", "longitude": "-74.0050859" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Join us for a reading from ‘Life with P.’ with President of The Guston Foundation and the artist and poet’s daughter, Musa Mayer", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-03-27", "availabilityEnds": "2026-04-23T19:30:00-04:00", "validFrom": "2026-03-27", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/new-york/reading-and-book-launch-musa-mayer-reads-from-‘life-with-p’/100001984933608857" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-03-27", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-03-27", "url": "https://allevents.in/new-york/reading-and-book-launch-musa-mayer-reads-from-‘life-with-p’/100001984933608857", "price": 0, "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Hauser & Wirth New York", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/hauser-and-wirth-new-york/22554168", "description": "Hauser & Wirth was founded in 1992 in Zurich by Iwan Wirth, Manuela Wirth and Ursula Hauser, who were joined in 2000 by Partner and President Marc Payot. 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