“Let’s stop talking about Philip Guston and start talking about structural racism.” This has been critic Nikki Columbus’s refrain through the past season, issuing what many considered the final word of a furious debate surrounding the postponement of a Guston retrospective. Titled “Guston Can Wait” and published in n+1 in October 2020, the text (which Columbus reads for the podcast) deftly summarizes the controversy’s main thrust—the vehemently-shared opinion that postponing the exhibition was a move based in institutional cowardice—before zooming out for the larger context in which museums are actively undermining and purging their own labor forces; that the Guston furor is ...