The opportunity to experience the iconic, very contemporary work of Leon Golub at the current Met Breuer show is enhanced by the exhibition of work executed during the last ten years of his life.

LEON GOLUB – RAW NERVE, through May 27.

MET BREUER, 945 Madison Avenue (at 75th Street), New York City.

https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2018/leon-golub

See: mondediplo.com/golub

artwriting.sva.edu/david-levi-strauss-on-leon-golub

Top: Leon Golub, All Bets are Off, 1994, acrylic on linen, 89 3/5 × 99 2/5 inches.

Above: Leon Golub, Interrogation, 1992. Both images above courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Below: Leon Golub, Bite Your Tongue, 2001, acrylic on linen, 87 × 153 inches. The Estate of Leon Golub, courtesy Hauser and Wirth.

All images © The Nancy Spero and Leon Golub Foundation for the Arts/Licensed by VAGA, New York.