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Richard Serra

1938–2024

Richard Serra was a titan who transformed the very definition of sculpture and drawing. More than that, he changed us, how we see and feel our way toward an experience that is elemental and sublime. He put us at the center of his art. Before material, space, weight, and measure, it was our experience that he cared most about. Our first exhibition together was in 1983 in Los Angeles and since then we worked on more than forty exhibitions around the world dedicated to Richard’s work—every one of them a tough, exacting challenge, like their maker. Richard leaves a legacy of extraordinary care and empathy that we are not likely to see again. He was my friend and he will be greatly missed.
—Larry Gagosian

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Self portrait of Francesca Woodman, she stands against a wall holding pieces of ripped wallpaper in front of her face and legs

Francesca Woodman

Ahead of the first exhibition of Francesca Woodman’s photographs at Gagosian, director Putri Tan speaks with historian and curator Corey Keller about new insights into the artist’s work. The two unravel themes of the body, space, architecture, and ambiguity.

Cover of Gagosian Quarterly, Spring 2024, featuring Jean-Michel Basquiat Cover

Now available
Gagosian Quarterly Spring 2024

The Spring 2024 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available with a fresh cover design featuring Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Lead Plate with Hole (1984).

Black and white portrait of Lisa Lyon

Lisa Lyon

Fiona Duncan pays homage to the unprecedented, and underappreciated, life and work of Lisa Lyon.

self portrait by Jamian Juliano-Villani

Jamian Juliano-Villani and Jordan Wolfson

Ahead of her forthcoming exhibition in New York, Jamian Juliano-Villani speaks with Jordan Wolfson about her approach to painting and what she has learned from running her own gallery, O’Flaherty’s.

portrait of Stanley Whitney

Stanley Whitney: Vibrations of the Day

Stanley Whitney invited professor and musician-biographer John Szwed to his studio in Long Island as he prepared for an upcoming survey at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum to discuss the resonances between painting and jazz.

Interior of Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland

Goetheanum: Rudolf Steiner and Contemporary Art

Author and artist Ross Simonini reports on a recent trip to the world center of the anthroposophical movement, the Goetheanum in Switzerland, exploring the influence of the movement’s founder and building’s designer Rudolf Steiner on twentieth-century artists.

Black and white portrait of Katherine Dunham leaping in the air

Border Crossings: Exile and American Modern Dance, 1900–1955

Dance scholars Mark Franko and Ninotchka Bennahum join the Quarterly’s Gillian Jakab in a conversation about the exhibition Border Crossings at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Cocurated by Bennahum and Bruce Robertson, the show reexamines twentieth-century modern dance in the context of war, exile, and injustice. An accompanying catalogue, coedited by Bennahum and Rena Heinrich and published earlier this year, bridges the New York presentation with its West Coast counterpart at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Black and white portrait of Alexey Brodovitch

Game Changer: Alexey Brodovitch

Gerry Badger reflects on the persistent influence of the graphic designer and photographer Alexey Brodovitch, the subject of an upcoming exhibition at the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia.

Black and white portrait of Frida Escobedo

Hans Ulrich Obrist’s Questionnaire: Frida Escobedo

In this ongoing series, curator Hans Ulrich Obrist has devised a set of thirty-seven questions that invite artists, authors, musicians, and other visionaries to address key elements of their lives and creative practices. Respondents select from the larger questionnaire and reply in as many or as few words as they desire. For the first installment of 2024, we are honored to present the architect Frida Escobedo.

Black and white portrait of Maria Grazia Chiuri looking directly at the camera

Fashion and Art: Maria Grazia Chiuri

Maria Grazia Chiuri has been the creative director of women’s haute couture, ready-to-wear, and accessories collections at Dior since 2016. Beyond overseeing the fashion collections of the French house, she has produced a series of global collaborations with artists such as Judy Chicago, Mickalene Thomas, Penny Slinger, and more. Here she speaks with the Quarterly’s Derek Blasberg about her childhood in Rome, the energy she derives from her interactions and conversations with artists, the viral “We Should All Be Feminists” T-shirt, and her belief in the role of creativity in a fulfilled and healthy life.

Installation view with Douglas Gordon, Pretty much every film and video work from about 1992 until now... (1999–)

Douglas Gordon: To Sing

On the occasion of Douglas Gordon: All I need is a little bit of everything, an exhibition in London, curator Adam Szymczyk recounts his experiences with Gordon’s work across nearly three decades, noting the continuities and evolutions.

Detail of Lauren Halsey sculpture depicting praying hands, planets, and other symbol against red and green background

Black Futurity: Lessons in (Art) History to Forge a Path Forward

Jon Copes asks, What can Black History Month mean in the year 2024? He looks to a selection of scholars and artists for the answer.

Still from Gone Girl (2013), directed by David Fincher

Screening

Anna Weyant Selects

March 22–April 2, 2024
Metrograph, New York
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Anna Weyant has curated a selection of three films as part of an ongoing series copresented by Gagosian and Metrograph. Weyant comments, “The experience of watching each of these films is markedly different with respect to their individual style, storytelling, aesthetic, and dialogue. When I consider what it is about these stories that resonates with me, I am repeatedly drawn to their through lines of the power dynamics, complexities, and deceptions in relationships (and society); the uneasiness that comes from not fully knowing one’s surroundings (or the company one keeps); and our inherent desires for connection in an increasingly isolating world.”

Featured films include
Lost in Translation (2003, directed by Sofia Coppola)
Gone Girl (2014, directed by David Fincher)
Parasite (2019, directed by Bong Joon Ho)

Still from Gone Girl (2013), directed by David Fincher

Jean-Michel Basquiat with Gold Griot (1984) and M (1984) in his studio at 21 Market Street, Venice, California, spring 1984. Artwork © The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York. Photo: B.Dub/Brian D. Williams

In Conversation

Tamra Davis and Brian Williams on Jean-Michel Basquiat
Moderated by Fred Hoffman

Tuesday, April 2, 2024, 6:30pm
Gagosian, Beverly Hills

Join Gagosian for a conversation between filmmaker Tamra Davis and photographer Brian Williams inside Jean-Michel Basquiat: Made on Market Street at the Beverly Hills gallery. The talk is moderated by Fred Hoffman, who curated the exhibition with Larry Gagosian and is the author of The Art of Jean-Michel Basquiat. The first exhibition to focus exclusively on the works Basquiat produced in Los Angeles, Made on Market Street reflects on this consequential period in his career. During his time in LA, Davis drove the artist, who never learned to drive, around the city and filmed him for what would become her acclaimed documentary Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child (2010). Williams, who was Basquiat’s former studio assistant, captured the artist at work during these years and will share never-before-seen archival photographs and footage during the talk.

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Jean-Michel Basquiat with Gold Griot (1984) and M (1984) in his studio at 21 Market Street, Venice, California, spring 1984. Artwork © The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York. Photo: B.Dub/Brian D. Williams

Francesca Woodman, Untitled, c. 1977–78 © Woodman Family Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

In Conversation

Brooke Holmes, Katarina Jerinic, Lissa McClure
On Francesca Woodman

Wednesday, April 17, 2024, 6:30pm
Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, New York

Join Gagosian for a conversation inside the exhibition Francesca Woodman at Gagosian, New York, between Brooke Holmes, professor of Classics at Princeton University, and Lissa McClure and Katarina Jerinic, executive director and collections curator, respectively, at the Woodman Family Foundation. The trio will discuss Woodman’s preoccupation with classical themes and archetypes, her exploration of the body as sculpture, and her development of photography’s capacity to invest representation with allegory and metaphor. The exhibition features more than fifty lifetime prints—many of which have not been previously exhibited—including Blueprint for a Temple (II) (1980), the largest work she accomplished.

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Francesca Woodman, Untitled, c. 1977–78 © Woodman Family Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Museum Exhibitions

Installation view, El eco de Picasso, Museo Picasso Málaga, Spain, October 2, 2023–March 30, 2024. Artwork, left to right: © Rebecca Warren, © Richard Prince. Photo: Pablo Asenjo, courtesy Museo Picasso Málaga

Closing this Week

El eco de Picasso

Through March 30, 2024
Museo Picasso Málaga, Spain
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Organized as part of Picasso Celebration 1973–2023, a series of international exhibitions and events commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s death, The Echo of Picasso focuses on his influence on twentieth-century art. The exhibition places Picasso’s practice in dialogue with work by more than fifty artists, including Francis Bacon, Georg Baselitz, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Willem de Kooning, Thomas Houseago, Ewa Juszkiewicz, Richard Prince, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Cy Twombly, Tom Wesselmann, and Franz West.

Installation view, El eco de Picasso, Museo Picasso Málaga, Spain, October 2, 2023–March 30, 2024. Artwork, left to right: © Rebecca Warren, © Richard Prince. Photo: Pablo Asenjo, courtesy Museo Picasso Málaga

Derrick Adams, Floater 60, 2017 © Derrick Adams Studio

Closing this Week

Derrick Adams in
Black California Dreamin’: Claiming Space at America’s Leisure Frontier

Through March 31, 2024
California African American Museum, Los Angeles
caamuseum.org

Black California Dreamin’ illuminates the work undertaken by Angelenos and other Californians to make leisure an open, inclusive reality in the first half of the twentieth century. In shaping recreational sites and public spaces during the Jim Crow era, African Americans challenged white supremacy and situated Black identity within oceanfront and inland social gathering places throughout California. The exhibition includes historical photographs and memorabilia alongside contemporary artworks. Work by Derrick Adams is included.

Derrick Adams, Floater 60, 2017 © Derrick Adams Studio

Glenn Brown, The Holy Bible, 2022 © Glenn Brown

Closing this Week

Dix und die Gegenwart

Through April 1, 2024
Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany
www.deichtorhallen.de

This exhibition, whose title translates to Dix and the Present, explores the work of Otto Dix (1891–1969) and the artist’s enduring influence. It focuses on the ostensibly apolitical work Dix created beginning in 1933, which was less aggressive than his radical and provocative paintings of the 1920s. His Nazi-era landscapes, commissioned portraits, and Christian allegories were instead subtle and subversive forms of contemporary social critique. The exhibition aims to reveal the shifting cultural and social parameters in the reception of Dix’s art, while also demonstrating how his oeuvre continues to fascinate more than forty contemporary artists. Work by Georg Baselitz, Glenn Brown, John Currin, Nan Goldin, and Anselm Kiefer is included.

Glenn Brown, The Holy Bible, 2022 © Glenn Brown

Installation view, Katharina Grosse: Warum Drei Töne Kein Dreieck Bilden, Albertina, Vienna, November 1, 2023–April 1, 2024. Artwork © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2023. Photo: Sandro E. E. Zanzinger Photographie

Closing this Week

Katharina Grosse
Warum Drei Töne Kein Dreieck Bilden

Through April 1, 2024
Albertina, Vienna
www.albertina.at

In this exhibition, whose title translates to Why Three Tones Do Not Form a TriangleKatharina Grosse has created vast, immersive images that spread out over the walls, ceiling, and floor, and into the space itself, of the Columned Hall at the Albertina in Vienna, allowing an immediate, walk-in experience of art. Grosse temporarily relocated her studio to the Albertina and executed the work on-site, inviting viewers to see the paintings at different stages between work in progress and completion.

Installation view, Katharina Grosse: Warum Drei Töne Kein Dreieck Bilden, Albertina, Vienna, November 1, 2023–April 1, 2024. Artwork © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2023. Photo: Sandro E. E. Zanzinger Photographie

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