Repairing a Reputation

Chuck Close, “Fred/Diptych,” 2017-2018, oil on canvas, 36” x 30.” The subject is Fred Wilson, the artist; the works were shown briefly in Hong Kong but not in New York.Credit...Chuck Close, via Pace Gallery

 NY Times article "Gallery Shows Last Works by chuck Close.  Will it Repair a Reputation?"

 

Asked if the National Gallery would do a Close show now, its director, Kaywin Feldman, said: “Close will always be an important artist in our collection and we will continue to show his work in perpetuity, but because we haven’t talked about a show, I can’t say what we’d do.”

The National Portrait Gallery adjusted its wall labels to note the allegations, but kept its Close portrait of President Bill Clinton hanging. “At the Portrait Gallery, we try to be fairly transparent about a person’s life,” said Kim Sajet, the director. “But there’s no moral test to be here, or nobody would be here at all.”