Fairs & Collecting
Art Fair
TEFAF New York 2024
Brice Marden and Cy Twombly
May 10–14, 2024, booth 350
Park Avenue Armory, New York
www.tefaf.com
Gagosian is pleased to announce its participation in TEFAF New York 2024, with a presentation of works by Brice Marden and Cy Twombly focused on the two artists’ exploratory approaches to the relationship between abstract form and mythological allusion.
Brice Marden, 2 (Orfeo ed Euridice), 2003 © 2024 Estate of Brice Marden/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever
Now available
Gagosian Quarterly Summer 2024
The Summer 2024 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring a detail of Roy Lichtenstein’s Bauhaus Stairway Mural (1989) on the cover.
Maurizio Cattelan: Sunday Painter
Curated by Francesco Bonami, Sunday is the first solo presentation of new work by Maurizio Cattelan in New York in over twenty years. Here, Bonami asks us to consider Cattelan as a political artist, detailing the potent and clear observations at the core of these works.
Frank Stella
In celebration of the life and work of Frank Stella, the Quarterly shares the artist’s last interview from our Summer 2024 issue. Stella spoke with art historian Megan Kincaid about friendship, formalism, and physicality.
Highlights: Salone del Mobile Milano 2024
This year’s Salone del Mobile Milano brought together a range of installations, debuts, and collaborations from across the worlds of design, fashion, and architecture. We present a selection of these projects.
Stanley Whitney: Vibrations of the Day
Stanley Whitney invited professor and musician-biographer John Szwed to his studio on Long Island, New York, as he prepared for an upcoming survey at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum to discuss the resonances between painting and jazz.
Richard Armstrong
Richard Armstrong, director emeritus of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, joins the Quarterly’s Alison McDonald to discuss his election to the board of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, as well as the changing priorities and strategies facing museums, foundations, and curators. He reflects on his various roles within museums and recounts his first meeting with Frankenthaler.
Touch of Evil
Andrew Russeth situates Jamian Juliano-Villani’s daring paintings within her myriad activities shaking up the art world.
Jim Shaw: A–Z
Charlie Fox takes a whirlwind trip through the Jim Shaw universe, traveling along the letters of the alphabet.
Oscar Murillo: Marks and Whispers
Ahead of two exhibitions—The Flooded Garden at Tate Modern, London, and Marks and Whispers at Gagosian, Rome—curator Alessandro Rabottini visited Oscar Murillo’s London studio to discuss the connections between them.
Vladimir Kagan’s First Collection: An Interview with Chris Eitel
Chris Eitel, Vladimir Kagan’s protégé and the current director of design and production at Vladimir Kagan Design Group, invited the Quarterly’s Wyatt Allgeier to the brand’s studio in New Jersey, where the two discussed the forthcoming release of the First Collection. The series, now available through holly hunt, reintroduces the first chair and table that Kagan ever designed—part of Eitel’s efforts to honor the furniture avant-gardist’s legacy while carrying the company into the future.
Lauren Halsey: Full and Complete Freedom
Essence Harden, curator at Los Angeles’s California African American Museum and cocurator of next year’s Made in LA exhibition at the Hammer Museum, visited Lauren Halsey in her LA studio as the artist prepared for an exhibition in Paris and the premiere of her installation at the 60th Biennale di Venezia this summer.
Candy Darling
Published in March, Cynthia Carr’s latest biography recounts the life and work of the Warhol superstar and transgender trailblazer Candy Darling. Combining scholarship, compassion, and a rich understanding of the world Darling inhabited, Carr’s follow-up to her biography of the artist David Wojnarowicz elucidates the incredible struggles that Darling faced in the course of her determined journey toward a more glamorous, more honest, and more tender world. Here, Carr tells Josh Zajdman about the origins of the book, her process, and what she hopes readers glean from the story.
Events & Announcements
Visit
Contemporanea 2024
Rome Gallery Weekend
May 10–12, 2024
Various locations in Rome
contemporanearoma.com
Gagosian is participating in the second annual Contemporanea—Rome Gallery Weekend with Oscar Murillo: Marks and Whispers. The exhibition, on view at Gagosian, Rome, will be open from 10:30am to 8pm on Friday, May 10, and Saturday, May 11, and from 12 to 6pm on Sunday, May 12. Organized by contemporary art galleries active in and around Rome, the initiative includes more than fifty of the city’s leading galleries, museums, foundations, and art spaces.
Installation view, Oscar Murillo: Marks and Whispers, Gagosian, Rome, April 12–June 15, 2024. Artwork © Oscar Murillo. Photo: Matteo D’Eletto, M3 Studio
In Conversation
Joshua Chuang and Sébastien Delot
On Anselm Kiefer’s Photography
Monday, May 13, 2024, 6:30pm
Gagosian, 976 Madison Avenue, New York
Join Gagosian for a conversation between Joshua Chuang and Sébastien Delot on Anselm Kiefer’s photography practice inside the exhibition Anselm Kiefer: Punctum at Gagosian, New York. Chuang is director of photography at the gallery and Delot is director of conservation and collections at the Musée Picasso, Paris, and in 2023 organized the first retrospective to focus on Kiefer’s use of photography. The pair will discuss the artist’s exploration of the medium’s materials, processes, and expressive potentials and how these inform his paintings and artist’s books. Returning to perennial motifs and images, the photographs in the exhibition reinforce the continuity of themes such as ruin and destruction, and growth and renewal, across Kiefer’s oeuvre.
Anselm Kiefer, Katzensilber (White Mica), 1994–2012 © Anselm Kiefer. Photo: Charles Duprat
Shop Takeover
Nan Goldin
May 14–June 22, 2024
Gagosian Shop, London
Nan Goldin is taking over the Gagosian Shop in London’s Burlington Arcade, offering visitors an opportunity to explore her practice in depth. The basement floor will be transformed into a reading room of books chosen by Goldin, with publications on artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Larry Clark, Andy Warhol, and David Wojnarowicz, and fiction, essays, and memoirs by writers including Toni Morrison, Darryl Pinckney, Lucy Sante, and Sarah Schulman. A wide selection of publications on Goldin are available on the ground floor, including both new and out-of-print exhibition catalogues, monographs, and artist’s books. Also on display are in-progress layouts from Heartbeat, a forthcoming nine-volume catalogue raisonné of Goldin’s photographs published by Steidl. Over the course of the takeover, different pages from this comprehensive publication project will be displayed, revealing Goldin’s notes and markups over the course of its development.
The Shop takeover accompanies an exhibition of Goldin’s early works in the gallery upstairs and Nan Goldin: Sisters, Saints, Sibyls, the second presentation in the Gagosian Open series of off-site exhibitions, on view at 83 Charing Cross Road from May 30 to June 23, 2024.
Nan Goldin, Self-portrait with eyes turned inward, Boston, 1989 © Nan Goldin
Fundraiser
Sky High Farm Spring Picnic
Saturday, May 18, 2024, 2–6pm
Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, Tivoli, New York
www.skyhighfarm.org
Sky High Farm is hosting a picnic fundraiser featuring a DJ set by Michaël Brun and performances by Kelsey Lu, Moses Sumney, The Roots, and other special acts, with food and beverages by local Hudson Valley purveyors available for purchase. The farm is a nonprofit founded by Dan Colen that aims to improve access to nutritious food for New Yorkers in underserved communities. All proceeds from the event will benefit Sky High Farm’s work to solve urgent and long-term issues at the intersection of climate, food access, and education.
Sky High Farm, Columbia County, New York. Photo: Ryan McGinley
Museum Exhibitions
Closing this Week
Some Dogs Go to Dallas
Through May 12, 2024
Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas
www.greenfamilyartfoundation.org
Some Dogs Go to Dallas presents a selection of works from the collection of Pamela and David Hornik. Ardent dog lovers, the Horniks have a penchant for acquiring pieces depicting canines across eras, locations, and techniques from throughout the art historical canon. The diversity of this collection underscores the universality of the human connection with animals and the profoundly enduring love that those bonds create. Work by Amoako Boafo and Andy Warhol is included.
Installation view, Some Dogs Go to Dallas, Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, February 10–May 12, 2024. Artwork, left to right: © Amoako Boafo, © Maggie Ellis. Photo: Evan Sheldon
Closing this Week
Multiplicity
Blackness in Contemporary American Collage
Through May 12, 2024
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
www.mfah.org
Multiplicity presents over eighty major collage and collage-informed works by fifty-two living artists. The works reflect the breadth and complexity of Black identity, exploring diverse conceptual concerns such as cultural hybridity, notions of beauty, gender fluidity, and historical memory. From paper, photographs, fabric, and salvaged or repurposed materials, these artists create unified compositions that express the endless possibilities of Black-constructed narratives within our fragmented society. This exhibition originated at the Frist Art Museum, Nashville, Tennessee. Work by Derrick Adams, Lauren Halsey, and Rick Lowe is included.
Lauren Halsey, Loda Land, 2020 © Lauren Halsey
On View
Jim Shaw
The Ties That Bind
Through May 19, 2024
Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Belgium
www.muhka.be
The Ties That Bind explores Jim Shaw’s work from the last five decades, which has at once anticipated and mirrored shifts in the American cultural and political landscape during this period. In recent decades, the artist’s work has increasingly highlighted the growing tension between conservative and progressive ideologies. The exhibition presents drawings, paintings, photographs, and immersive installations that bring to light the core motifs of Shaw’s practice.
Installation view, Jim Shaw: The Ties That Bind, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Belgium, February 9–May 19, 2024. Artwork © Jim Shaw. Photo: Kristien Daem
On View
The Time Is Always Now
Artists Reframe the Black Figure
Through May 19, 2024
National Portrait Gallery, London
www.npg.org.uk
The Time Is Always Now showcases the work of contemporary artists from the African diaspora and highlights their use of figures to illuminate the richness and complexity of Black life. The exhibition examines both the presence and the absence of Black figures in Western art history and the social, psychological, and cultural contexts in which they were produced. Work by Titus Kaphar and Nathaniel Mary Quinn is included.
Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Father Stretch My Hands, 2021 © Nathaniel Mary Quinn. Photo: Rob McKeever