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.
Jane Fonda: On Art for a Safe and Healthy California
Art for a Safe and Healthy California is a benefit exhibition and auction jointly presented by Jane Fonda, Gagosian, and Christie’s to support the Campaign for a Safe and Healthy California. Here, Fonda speaks with Gagosian Quarterly’s Gillian Jakab about bridging culture and activism, the stakes and goals of the campaign, and the artworks featured in the exhibition.
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.
Events & Announcements
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
Visit
Madison Avenue Spring Gallery Walk 2024
Saturday, May 18, 2024, 11am–6pm
New York
madisonavenuebid.org
Join Artnews and the Madison Avenue Business Improvement District on a springtime walk to visit over sixty galleries that line Madison Avenue from East 57th to East 86th Streets. Visitors to Gagosian at 976 Madison Avenue gallery can see Anselm Kiefer: Punctum, the first exhibition in the United States to center exclusively on the artist’s photography. In the Gagosian Shop, adjacent to the gallery, a suite of woodcuts and a selection of prints by Donald Judd are on view, alongside prints by Frank Gehry, Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha, Stanley Whitney, and Jonas Wood. The Shop also offers an exclusive and extensive selection of artist’s books, exhibition catalogues, posters, and prints.
Installation view, Anselm Kiefer: Punctum, Gagosian, 976 Madison Avenue, New York, April 25–July 3, 2024. Artwork © Anselm Kiefer. Photo: Owen Conway
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.
Gagosian’s booth at TEFAF 2024. Artwork, left to right: © Cy Twombly Foundation; © 2024 Estate of Brice Marden/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Dan Bradica
Museum Exhibitions
Opening this Week
Fragile Beauty
Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection
May 18, 2024–January 5, 2025
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
www.vam.ac.uk
Showcasing over three hundred rare prints from 140 photographers, Fragile Beauty is a major presentation of twentieth- and twenty-first-century photography, on loan from the private collection of Sir Elton John and David Furnish. Selected from over seven thousand images, the photographs—many of which are on public display for the first time—are era-defining images that explore both the strength and vulnerability inherent to the human condition. Work by Nan Goldin and Sally Mann is included.
Nan Goldin, Nicolas, Clemens and Jens laughing at Le Pulp, Paris, 1999 © Nan Goldin
Opening this Week
Carsten Höller in
Wonderland: Curious Nature
May 18–October 27, 2024
New York Botanical Garden
www.nybg.org
Wonderland: Curious Nature aims to capture the surrealism of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland through art and historical objects. Transforming the New York Botanical Garden’s 250 acres, the immersive exhibition alludes to characters and scenes from the nineteenth-century children’s book while considering Carroll’s engagement with emerging science and botany in his era and the ways in which nature exploration continues to fuel creativity today. Work by Carsten Höller is included.
Carsten Höller, Giant Triple Mushroom, 2014 © Carsten Höller. Photo: Thomas Lannes
Opening this Week
Carsten Höller in
Summer Show
May 19–August 11, 2024
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel
www.fondationbeyeler.ch
Organized by the Fondation Beyeler in partnership with the LUMA Foundation, Summer Show, conceived as a “living organism” that changes throughout its duration, transforms the entire museum and its surrounding park into an experimental presentation of contemporary art. Carsten Höller’s Dream Hotel Room 1: Dreaming of Flying with Flying Fly Agarics (2024), made in collaboration with scientist Adam Haar Horowitz, comprises a bed that rocks participants into sleep and a rotating mushroom replica designed to stimulate targeted dream content.
Carsten Höller, Pill clock (red and white pills), 2015 (detail) © Carsten Höller. Photo: courtesy Carsten Höller Studio
Opening this Week
Albert Oehlen
Malerei: Selected Works from the Collection
May 24–October 27, 2024
Espace Louis Vuitton Beijing
us.louisvuitton.com
Albert Oehlen: Malerei features six paintings made by the artist over thirty years from Fondation Louis Vuitton’s collection: Untitled (1992–2005), Mission Rohrfrei (1996), Rasieren (2005), Rock (2009), Untitled (2017) and Ömega Man 23 (2022). The works—many of which have never been shown before—are being presented as part of the Fondation’s Hors-les-murs, a program that introduces the collection to international audiences in major cities. This compact selection reveals Oehlen’s long and boundary pushing engagement with the history of abstract painting.
Albert Oehlen, Mission Rohrfrei, 1996, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris © Albert Oehlen/ADAGP, Paris. Photo: © Primae/Louis Bourjac