Georg Baselitz made this self-portrait in January 2018 while filming for the ZDF cultural program "Aspekte". The signed pencil drawing, titled "ZERO," will be auctioned by Lempertz to benefit Kunst Hilft Geben, an organization working to end homelessness in Cologne, Germany. The auction is now live and will conclude on January 31. Follow the link in our bio to bid or to learn more. __________ #GerogBaselitz @kunsthilftgeben @lempertz_1845_art (1) Georg Baselitz with "ZERO" (2018). Photo: Ivan Aebischer; (2) "ZERO,“ 2018 (detail) © Georg Baselitz. Photo: Robert Oisin Cusack
“When you take, or make, something that’s more abstract, how can it border this representation of a perspective and also be something completely else? Can something be liberated in such a way that it doesn’t have to take a side; it doesn’t have to have a bias? Or maybe it takes too many sides, with multiple personalities, multiple agendas.” —Sterling Ruby Happy birthday to American artist Sterling Ruby, born on this day, January 21, in Bitburg, Germany. In a “Gagosian Quarterly” feature, Alessandro Rabottini investigates the theoretical and formal underpinnings of Sterling Ruby’s career through the lens of the artist’s series “ACTS.” Follow the link in our bio to read the article. __________ #SterlingRuby #Gagosian #GagosianQuarterly @sterlingruby Sterling Ruby, “ACTS/DOPAMINE DONE. RUN!,” 2018 © Sterling Ruby. Photo: Robert Wedemeyer, courtesy Sterling Ruby Studio
“The job of the artist is to make a gesture and really show people what their potential is. It’s not about the object, and it’s not about the image; it’s about the viewer.” —Jeff Koons Happy birthday to Jeff Koons, born on this day in York, Pennsylvania. Koons’s 2018 exhibition in New York, “Easyfun-Ethereal,” contained mural-sized tableaux that combine cutout photographs of packaged foods, fragments of faces, limbs, and hair, amusement park scenes, and paradisiacal landscapes into images of convulsive beauty. As one of the organizers of the exhibition, Rebecca Sternthal speaks about the series and its history in a video walkthrough of the show. Follow the link in our bio to watch. _________ #JeffKoons #Gagosian #EasyfunEthereal @jeffkoons (1) Jeff Koons, "Lips," 2000 (detail); (2) Installation view, “Easyfun-Ethereal,” Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, New York, March 10–April 21, 2018. Artwork © Jeff Koons. Photo: @tompowelimaging
#RichardArtschwager: "Form always begins with a something. And then if that something occurs in another place, there is slippage involved and what is created as a result develops a parallel existence to the original thing." —Richard Artschwager An exhibition of works by the late Richard Artschwager from a key period in his career, 1964 to 1987, is on view at Gagosian Rome. Through shifts in scale and transpositions of form and material, Artschwager’s artworks prompt an ongoing reassessment of space and time, suggesting compound narratives and compositional complexities, often at once quotidian and surreal. Employing synthetic, commercial, and industrial materials, Artschwager transformed his sources with a deadpan visual wit that makes the familiar strange. Follow the link in our bio to learn more about the exhibition or to schedule an appointment. __________ #Gagosian Installation views, "Richard Artschwager," Gagosian, Rome, January 14–March 11, 2021. Artwork © 2021 The Estate of Richard Artschwager/Artis
Join Patti Smith and her band for a special Inauguration Day performance at 8:21pm GMT. The 30-minute online event will include a performance of Smith’s anthem “People Have the Power.“ Presented by Circa, the event is part of Smith’s monthlong presentation "A New Year," in which she takes over the Piccadilly Lights advertising screen in London’s Piccadilly Circus for two and half minutes every day. Follow the link in our bio to watch on Circa's Youtube channel. __________ #PattiSmith #PiccadillyLights #Gagosian @circa.art @thisispattismith Photo: Daniel Adhami
Join Gagosian on Tuesday, January 26, at 1pm EST for a conversation between Giuseppe Penone and Hans Ulrich Obrist, artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries, London. The pair will discuss the artist’s practice, which is deeply engaged with nature and time, as well as his outdoor installation in San Francisco. Two large-scale bronze sculptures cast from trees—"La logica del vegetale (The Logic of the Vegetal)" (2012) and "Idee di pietra (Ideas of Stone)" (2004)—are dramatically installed in Fort Mason’s Great Meadow, overlooking San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate Bridge, through March 2021. Follow the link in our bio to register. __________ #GiuseppePenone #Gagosian @hansulrichobrist Giuseppe Penone, "Idee di pietra (Ideas of Stone)," 2004, installation view, Fort Mason, San Francisco, 2019–2021 © Giuseppe Penone/2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Matthew Millman
“Language is not there to signify something, but to uplift a whole other world.” —Anselm Kiefer Anselm Kiefer is currently featured on the cover of Whitewall’s Winter 2021 Experience Issue. Kiefer’s sweeping paintings of desolate landscapes incorporate materials including wheat, gold leaf, ash, and lead. He describes his process as one of constant beginning and destruction—as captured in the cover image taken at his studio—acknowledging the connection between nothingness and existence. Follow the link in our bio to read the issue online. An exhibition of four monumental new paintings by Kiefer, "Field of the Cloth of Gold," opens on February 7 at Gagosian, Le Bourget. Keep an eye out for more details!   __________ #AnselmKiefer #Gagosian @whitewall.art Photo: Atelier Anselm Kiefer, 2019 © Anselm Kiefer
#RudolfPolanszky: "Freedom is a chimera in a sense, but this illusion is realized as far as is possible in art. I can do something, and you can say, 'No, don’t do that, that’s wrong,' but I’ll do it anyway." —Rudolf Polanszky An exhibition of new and recent paintings and sculptures by Rudolf Polanszky is now open at Gagosian in Paris. In 2019, Hans Ulrich Obrist visited the artist at his studio outside Vienna to discover more about the origins of his practice, his experiments in freedom, and the importance of drifting. Follow the link in our bio to read the piece, or to schedule an appointment to visit the exhibition. _________ #Gagosian #GagosianQuarterly @hansulrichobrist Installation views, "Rudolf Polanszky," Gagosian, Paris, January 16–March 20, 2021. Artwork © Rudolf Polanszky. Photos: Thomas Lannes
“I see humor in almost everything, in even the grotesque things, because I don’t want people to believe in them as if they were documentary that really does show true horror. I want them to be artificial, so you can laugh or giggle at them, as I do when I watch horror movies.” —Cindy Sherman Happy birthday to Cindy Sherman, born on this day, January 19, in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. In a “Gagosian Quarterly” interview, Cindy Sherman sat down with Derek Blasberg to discuss her critically acclaimed exhibition at London’s National Portrait Gallery in 2019, her solitary process, and selfies. Follow the link in our bio to read the article. __________ #CindySherman #Gagosian #GagosianQuarterly @cindysherman @derekblasberg @nationalportraitgallery Cindy Sherman; (1) “Untitled #555,” 2010–12 (detail); (2) “Untitled #468,” 2008 (detail); (3) “Untitled #478,” 2002/2008 (detail). Artwork © Cindy Sherman. Images: courtesy the artist and Metro Pictures, New York
#GagosianQuarterly: In a new video for "Gagosian Quarterly," Titus Kaphar and Jason Price give viewers a tour of NXTHVN, a new national arts model that empowers emerging artists and curators of color through education and access. Through intergenerational mentorship, professional development, and cross-sector collaboration, NXTHVN accelerates professional careers in the arts. The pair discuss the founding and vision for this singular arts space in New Haven, Connecticut. Watch the full video on IGTV, or visit nxthvn.com to find out more. __________ #NXTHVN @__nxthvn__ @jayjprice Clip of Titus Kaphar in the video “NXTHVN.” Video: John Dennis @auxprojects (director), @pushpinfilms (editing). Artwork: 2020 NXTHVN Studio Fellows @estebanramonperez, @jeffreymeris, and Daniel T. Gaitor-Lomack
Remembering Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on this day: This historic image of the crowd at the public funeral of King in April 1968 was taken by Moneta Sleet, Jr. The first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for journalism, Sleet was also known for his high-fashion photography. The image is one of thousands that constitute Theaster Gates’s Black Image Corporation project, which grew out of his engagement with the legacy of the legendary Johnson Publishing Company. Gates’s work, with its message of resilience and its insistent exploration of questions surrounding agency, history, and material conditions in Black culture, led us to select the image for the cover of the fall 2020 issue of “Gagosian Quarterly,” along with a related feature in the issue. Read the interview via the link in our bio. __________ #MLK #MartinLutherKingDay #MonetaSleetJr #TheasterGates #GagosianQuarterly #Gagosian  @theastergates  Photo: Moneta Sleet, Jr., 1968. Johnson Publishing Company Archive. Courtesy Ford Foundation
#GagosianQuarterly: "The most wonderful experience was the intimate and almost unlimited exposure to art. The museum gave me such deep and personal time with art, the kind of time that is necessarily revealing on many levels." —Vera Lutter During a two-year residency at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, from 2017 to 2019, Vera Lutter documented the museum’s changing campus and permanent collection, using her distinctive photographic technique. In a piece for "Gagosian Quarterly," she speaks about the experience with the museum’s director, Michael Govan. A presentation of photographs by Lutter, "Fragments of Time Past," is now online for galleryplatform.la through January 20. Follow the link in our bio to browse the artworks, or to read the interview. __________ #VeraLutter #Gagosian #GalleryPlatformLA @veralutterstudio @galleryplatform.la @lacma Vera Lutter, "Art of the Pacific, II: September 21, 2017–January 5, 2018," 2017–18 © Vera Lutter
“My images don't come close to real life. The world is remarkable, astounding and surprising that one does not need to exaggerate. What actually exists is simply insane.” ーDuane Hanson American sculptor Duane Hanson was born on this day, January 17, in Alexandria, Minnesota. Throughout his forty-year career, Hanson populated exhibition spaces with uncanny sculptural likenesses, eliciting surprise, embarrassment, amusement, and sympathy from unsuspecting viewers. In the "Quarterly," Benjamin Nugent reflects on questions of American life in his work. Follow the link in our bio to read the article. __________ #DuaneHanson #Gagosian Duane Hanson, "Self Portrait with Model," 1979 © Duane Hanson
#GagosianQuarterly: Gagosian Quarterly invited Pulitzer Prize–winning author Anne Boyer to be the magazine’s fiction writer for 2020. Her four-part story cycle “The Iconoclasts” breaks the boundaries of traditional fiction to express a moment that is surreal yet uncannily familiar. Follow the link in our bio to read the series online. __________ #AnneBoyer #Gagosian Images: Graphic Thought Facility, London
#RudolfPolanszky: An exhibition of new and recent paintings and sculptures by Rudolf Polanszky is now open at Gagosian in Paris! From the early 1990s, Polanszky began experimenting in mixed-media painting with the series "Reconstructions," created using salvaged industrial materials. In this exhibition, the "Reconstructions" newly incorporate copper foil. Interspersed between fields of white corrugated cardboard and silvery aluminum, these gleaming, gently creased metal sheets add an entirely new tonal and textural dimension to the surface of each painting. Also on view are two recent sculptures in which Polanszky makes use of the rough-hewn edges of the same repurposed objects, manipulating strips of metal and acrylic glass into curved forms and dynamic abstractions. Follow the link in our bio to schedule an appointment to visit the exhibition. _________ #Gagosian Rudolf Polanszky; (1) "Reconstructions / Choros / Ecliptics," 2020; (2) "Reconstructions / Choros / Ecliptics," 2020; (3) "Reconstructions / C
#TheasterGates: "The shelving structure [of 'New Egypt'] recalls the 11 floors of John H. Johnson's corporate office. It is about a kind of corporate ascension as much as it is a sacred home that invites one person at a time to be deeply embedded in this canon. It is at once the corporate ladder, Jacob's Ladder, and Osiris's ladder." —Theaster Gates, "The Brooklyn Rail" Housed in the awe-inspiring brick sanctuary of "Black Vessel" is the towering "New Egypt Sanctuary of the Holy Word and Image" (2017), an edifice containing the complete bound volumes of "Ebony," the Johnson Publishing Company periodical (1945–2016) that promoted and celebrated the realities of Black American middle-class life. The red, black, green, and dark gray covers reference the Black Power movement, while the wooden shelving structure acknowledges various forms of Africanized architecture. The title of the work and its content reflect the teachings of Dr. Maulana Karenga, a founder of Kwanzaa and a prominent figure in early Africana st
“I keep awareness of the problems simmering without losing sight of the beauty and complexity of the world.” —Andreas Gursky Happy birthday to Andreas Gursky, born on this day, January 15, in Leipzig, Germany. A highly personal retrospective of work by Gursky recently opened at Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig. For his first solo exhibition in the city of his birth—the artist selected approximately eighty photographs, including around fifty extremely large-format compositions; older iconic works that have imprinted themselves on the visual memory, and new works that have yet to be exhibited in a museum. While the museum is temporarily closed, explore the exhibition online via the link in our bio. __________ #AndreasGursky #Gagosian @mdbkleipzig Andreas Gursky; (1) "Bauhaus," 2020; (2) "Rhein III," 2018; (3) "Kreuzfahrt," 2020 (detail). Artwork © Andreas Gursky/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020
#RudolfPolanszky: An exhibition of new and recent paintings and sculptures by Rudolf Polanszky opens tomorrow at Gagosian in Paris. A key figure in the Vienna art scene, Polanszky creates cerebral yet tactile works that embrace chance occurrence. From the early 1990s, he began experimenting in mixed-media painting with the series "Reconstructions". To make these subtle compositions, he uses salvaged industrial materials such as acrylic glass, aluminum, mirrored foil, resin, silicone, and wire, decontextualizing them from their original uses and recombining them into aesthetic forms. Polanszky’s process of “ad hoc synthesis” produces works that oscillate between material constructions and symbols of subjective perception. Follow the link in our bio to schedule an appointment to visit the show. _________ #Gagosian Views of Rudolf Polanszky's studio; Artwork © Rudolf Polanszky; Photos: Jorit Aust
“Pressing into the earth, the concave sculpture reflects the concave sky, creating a sense of the landscape in reverse. As visitors peer into the reflection, they are immersed in the sky from above and below, teetering between a sense that the sculpture has dropped from above and a sense that it is emerging from the earth." —Sarah Sze Sarah Sze has been commissioned by Storm King Art Center in New Windsor, New York, to create "Fallen Sky," a site-specific work comprised of a deliberately incomplete and increasingly delicate spherical cavity 36 feet in diameter, sheathed in mirrored stainless steel. This is the first new permanent work to enter the museum's collection since 2008. "Fallen Sky" is due to be installed later this year, along with a solo exhibition of the same name. Follow the link in our bio to learn more. _________ #SarahSze #Gagosian @sarahszestudio @stormkingartcenter A rendering Sarah Sze's "Fallen Sky" (2021) © Sarah Sze. Photo: courtesy Storm King Art Center
#RichardArtschwager: “I have located my art in terms of reducing all objects to the attention they demand. This gives me a good shot at innovation, to put it boldly.” —Richard Artschwager An exhibition of works by the late Richard Artschwager from a key period in his career, 1964 to 1987, opens today at Gagosian, Rome. Artschwager’s sculptural works demonstrate the ways in which he integrated artisanal skills into intellectual and formal experiments in perception and composition. In “Sliding Door” (1964), the door of a cabinet casts a shadow within the work’s pale interior, generating a constantly changing pattern that shifts along with light and the motion of the viewer around the object. This piece epitomizes the artist’s iconic canon of sculptures which allude to functional objects, yet lack utilitarian purpose. Follow the link in our bio to learn more about the exhibition or to schedule an appointment. __________ #Gagosian #GagosianQuarterly Richard Artschwager, “Sliding Door,” 1964 © 2021 The Estate of
Tune in online this evening at 20:21 GMT to watch a special poetry recital by Patti Smith commemorating the 80th anniversary of the passing of James Joyce. Joyce was one of the most innovative writers of the 20th century and a great influence to Smith. The recital is part of a month-long installation by the artist titled "A New Year." For the project, Smith will take over London’s Piccadilly Lights advertising screen for two minutes every day of January at 20:21 GMT. Presented by digital arts platform Circa, the installation combines musical performance with poetry, and will be streamed online daily for viewers to watch safely from home. Visit circa.art to watch! __________ #PattiSmith #JamesJoyce #PiccadillyCircus #Gagosian @thisispattismith #Repost: @circa.art; (1) Patti Smith resting with James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake"; (2) Patti Smith's first edition of "Finnegans Wake," signed by James Joyce in green ink. Photo: Steven Sebring (@stevensebring)
#VeraLutter: "I still work with a camera obscura, which can be a room, it can be my studio, it can be a cabin I build or a shipping container that I rent. I always take the easiest route." —Vera Lutter A presentation of photographs by Vera Lutter, "Fragments of Time Past," is now online for galleryplatform.la through January 20. Presented in a monochromatic photonegative palette, these iconic landmarks and relics take on a new and uncanny visual life: lively canals are smoothed to glossy stillness and solid ground drops away, leaving behind skeletal architectural structures silhouetted against black skies. Follow the link in our bio to learn more or to make an inquiry. __________ #Gagosian #GalleryPlatformLA @veralutterstudio @galleryplatform.la Vera Lutter; (1, 2) "Mycerinus Pyramid, Giza: April 22, 2010," 2010; (3, 4) "Temple of Athena, Paestum IV: October 7, 2015," 2015; (5, 6) "San Giorgio, Venice XXII: January 28, 2008," 2008. Artwork © Vera Lutter
#GagosianQuarterly: "It could be argued that paper contributed as much to the emergence of Renaissance art as the development of one-point perspective and the study of classical sculpture." —Eileen Costello In a piece for "Gagosian Quarterly," Eileen Costello explores the oft-overlooked importance of paper choice to the mediums of drawing and printmaking, from the Renaissance through present day. Follow the link in our bio to read the article. __________ #Gagosian Mary Cassatt, "Adaline Havemeyer in a White Hat," c. 1898. Photo: © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Source: Art Resource, New York
This is the last week to see Rachel Feinstein's "Maiden, Mother, Crone" at the Jewish Museum, New York, before it closes January 17. Bringing together three decades of Feinstein’s work in sculpture, installation, painting, drawing, and video, as well as a newly commissioned wall relief, a panoramic wallpaper, and the artist’s sculptural maquettes, this is Feinstein's first survey exhibition. Follow the link in our bio to learn more or to watch an interview with the artist about the show. __________ #RachelFeinstein #Gagosian @rachelfeinsteinstudio @thejewishmuseum Installation view, "Rachel Feinstein: Maiden, Mother, Crone,' Jewish Museum, New York, November 1, 2019–January 17, 2021. Artwork © Rachel Feinstein
"I’m done with a painting when there is something so compelling that I don’t want to lose it." —Mary Weatherford Happy birthday to Mary Weatherford, who was born on this day, January 11, in Ojai, California. In a recent episode of Gagosian Premieres, we celebrate "Mary Weatherford: Train Yards"—an exhibition of paintings at Gagosian, London—with a conversation between the artist and Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, as well as an exclusive performance by Thurston Moore inside the gallery. Follow the link in our bio to watch the full episode. __________ #MaryWeatherford #Gagosian @maryweatherford Artwork © Mary Weatherford. Video: @littledotstudios
Work by Taryn Simon and Adriana Varejão is included in "Time for Outrage! Art in Times of Social Anger," which closes today at Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Germany. Based on a 2010 manifesto of the same title by former French resistance fighter Stéphane Hessel, this exhibition brings together more than forty international artists who visualize, reflect on, and comment on various facets of anger and rage in our society during this era of political turmoil and democratic crisis. Follow the link in our bio to learn more. __________ #AdrianaVarejao #Gagosian @adrianavarejao Installation view, "Time for Outrage! Art in Times of Social Anger," Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Germany, October 29, 2020–January 10, 2021. Front: Adriana Varejão, "Ruina de Charcque horto (dipitico)," 2001. Artwork © Adriana Varejão. Photo: courtesy Kunstpalast Düsseldorf
#GagosianQuarterly: "Most of what is usually called political art is really polemical art, pointing a finger to assert a belief or assign a blame. In that respect, it can substitute for activism, while urging it. Manet is not polemical; he does not urge. But he does dramatize as he reports. He is political in the strict sense of picturing the result of an unforgivable ethical failing in the practice of government and international affairs." —John Elderfield In this second installment of a two-part essay, John Elderfield resumes his investigation of Édouard Manet’s "Execution of Maximilian," focusing this time on the political and historical implications of the artist’s formal treatment of real, violent events. Follow the link in our bio to read the piece. _________ #EdouardManet #Gagosian François Aubert, "The Shirt of the Emperor, Worn during His Execution," 1867, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gilman Collection, Gift of the Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005
#DonaldJudd: Donald Judd’s first US retrospective in over thirty years closed today at MoMA in New York. Named one of the "most important moments in art in 2020" by the "New York Times," the exhibition brought together sculptures, paintings, drawings, and rarely seen works from throughout Donald Judd’s career. On the occasion of the retrospective, Gagosian presented "Artwork: 1980," Judd’s largest single plywood work, stretching 80 feet wide. This was the first time the work has been exhibited in New York since it was originally shown at Castelli Gallery in 1981. Follow the link in our bio to watch a walkthrough of the exhibition on "Gagosian Quarterly". _________ #DonaldJudd #GagosianQuarterly #Gagosian @nytimes @themuseumofmodernart @juddfoundation Installation views, Donald Judd, Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 1, 2020–January 9, 2021. Artwork © 2020 Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
#GagosianQuarterly: In this first installment of a two-part essay, John Elderfield tracks the oscillating states of unification and separation that Édouard Manet’s "The Execution of Maximilian" has endured since its creation, in 1868. Read the article via the link in our bio, and keep an eye out for part two tomorrow. _________ #EdouardManet #Gagosian @nationalgallery (1) Édouard Manet, The Execution of Maximilian, 1867–68, National Gallery, London, Bought 1918; (2) Fernand Lochard, photograph of Édouard Manet’s "The Execution of Maximilian," December 1883, National Gallery, London
#VeraLutter: “Nothing is solid in memory. Our minds only hold on to traces, outlines—and that is what my photographs portray.” —Vera Lutter Gagosian is pleased to present “Fragments of Time Past,” a selection of photographs by Vera Lutter online for galleryplatform.la. The presentation runs through January 20. Since the 1990s, Lutter has used a camera obscura to produce large black-and-white photographs of buildings, landscapes, and urban and industrial sites. Reveling in the directness of this technique, she produces unique prints that imbue physical environments and buildings with an ethereal stillness. Reinterpreting familiar panoramas, Lutter erases fleeting human presence and collapses the movement of wind and water in long-exposure images that prompt reflection on the passage of time. Follow the link in our bio to learn more or to make an inquiry. __________ #Gagosian #GalleryPlatformLA @veralutterstudio @galleryplatform.la (1) Vera Lutter in her studio, New York, 2020. Photo: Lukas Vogt; Vera Lutter
Katharina Grosse's exhibition "It Wasn’t Us" is on view at Hamburger Bahnhof–Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, through Sunday. Grosse uses the historical hall of the Hamburger Bahnhof and the outdoor area behind the building as the site for a new work that radically destabilizes and renegotiates the existing order of the space of the museum. Incorporating the floor of the hall and Styrofoam sculptural elements as a pictorial ground, her painting extends beyond the building’s walls and into public space, inviting us to reconsider our habits of seeing, thinking, and perceiving. Follow the link in our bio to learn more. __________ #KatharinaGrosse #Gagosian @katharina_grosse @staatlichemuseenzuberlin Installation views, "Katharina Grosse: It Wasn’t Us," 2020, Hamburger Bahnhof–Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, June 14, 2020–January 10, 2021. Artwork © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2020. (1-3) Photo: Jens Ziehe; (4) Photo: Nic Tenwiggenhorn
#GagosianDeitch: Visit gagosian-deitch.com to view "The Future," this year’s annual thematic exhibition presented by Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch. Whether addressing urgent and specific issues like climate change or considering non-anthropocentric positions in which nature assumes greater agency over human interventions, several artists in the exhibition explore environmental themes in their work. Tauba Auerbach explores the visual beauty derived from heat recordings of the Earth’s surface, despite the devastating implications such rising temperatures will continue to have on the planet’s inhabitants. Alicja Kwade creates a work on paper by arranging watch hands and precisely sized segments of rulers—tools used to gauge precipitation levels, which are in constant flux today due to climate change—to resemble rainfall. Both Urs Fischer and Asal Peirovi communicate environments in which nature, suggested by cascading foliage or overgrowth, encroaches on human subjects or architecture. With his uncannily reali
#EdRuscha: An exhibition of new paintings by Ed Ruscha reopens today at Gagosian, 541 West 24th Street, New York, and runs through January 23. Since the 1960s, Ruscha has created a distinctive and ever-expanding lexicon of signs, symbols, images, and words drawn from vernacular America. His visual utterances, sounds, and concepts—such as the roadside gas station or the word “OOF”—have become embedded in the American ethos. He has presented recurring images—the American flag, mountains, books, and words—that are suggestive yet never didactic, and the development of these images over the course of his illustrious career exemplifies the wry refinement and subtlety with which he speaks through painting. In these new works, Ruscha has chosen to revisit the flag, the mountain, and the tire. Follow the link in our bio to schedule an appointment to visit the exhibition. _________ #Gagosian @edruschaofficial Ed Ruscha; (1, 2) "RIPPLING FLAG," 2020; (3, 4) "Geo This, Geo That," 2020; Artwork © Ed Ruscha. Photos: Rob M
#TheasterGates: "Gates is one of the most open-minded artists on the current scene, and clearly wants to connect the way he has chosen to live, see, and think with the realities of materiality and the forms that interest him. His idea of art is a big idea. He is tracing the past—his own past as an African American artist—as he moves from one place to another. His ideas go beyond the strata of the obvious. There is nothing at all obvious about Theaster Gates, nothing that suggests a single solution in his work. His presence is a re-awakening, a more involved understanding of what art should be. It is time to see again, and time to take notice of all that we may have missed." —Robert C Morgan, "The Brooklyn Rail" Don't miss Theaster Gates's acclaimed exhibition "Black Vessel," which reopens tomorrow January 5 at Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, New York, and runs through January 23. Follow the link in our bio to schedule an appointment to visit the exhibition or to read "The Brooklyn Rail" article. __________ #
“I think the undefined is always powerful. To me, art, whether conscious or not, always involves leaving the margins undefined. It lies in what’s not said or what’s missing.” —Harmony Korine Happy birthday to Harmony Korine, born on this day, January 4, in Bolinas, California. In a video for “Gagosian Quarterly,” the artist discusses his 2018 “BLOCKBUSTER” exhibition in New York with, telling the story behind the works and their connection to his larger practice. Follow the link in our bio to watch the full video. _________ #HarmonyKorine #Gagosian #GagosianQuarterly Clip from “Harmony Korine: BLOCKBUSTER,” 976 Madison Avenue, New York, September 11–October 20, 2018. Artwork © Harmony Korine; Video: Pushpin Films (@pushpinfilms)
#EdmunddeWaal: This is the last week to visit "cold mountain clay," an exhibition by Edmund de Waal at Gagosian, Hong Kong. Head to IGTV to watch a video interview with the artist about this new body of work, created in the silence and solitude of lockdown. At his studio in London, de Waal speaks about the panels, which are composed of layers of porcelain slip inscribed with lines of verse by the poet Hanshan. __________ #Gagosian @edmunddewaal (1, 2) Edmund de Waal, "poems from cold mountain, II," 2020; (3) Video: Pushpin Films (@pushpinfilms); footage: Emile Kelly. Artwork © Edmund de Waal
#EwaJuszkiewicz: Today is the last chance to see "In vain her feet in sparkling laces glow," an exhibition of new paintings by Ewa Juszkiewicz, on view exclusively through the storefront windows of Gagosian, Park & 75, New York. Head to IGTV to watch a video interview with Juszkiewicz, in which she elaborates on the creation of these works. __________ #Gagosian @ewa_juszkiewicz Ewa Juszkiewicz; (1) "Untitled,” 2020 (detail); (2) “Untitled,” 2020; (3) “Untitled (after Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller)," 2020 (detail); (4) “Untitled (after Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller)," 2020; © Ewa Juszkiewicz
#GagosianQuarterly: “I wanted to make paintings that were a celebration, and that revealed something and obscured something at the same time.” —Damien Hirst Next up in our round up of the most popular content from 2020 is an interview with Damien Hirst. The artist speaks with Gagosian's Alison McDonald about his "Veil" paintings. Accompanying their conversation is a video of Hirst at work in his London studio, providing an inside look at the process behind these immersive abstractions. Follow the link in our bio to read the piece on "Gagosian Quarterly." __________ #DamienHirst #Gagosian @damienhirst Damien Hirst working on "Veil" paintings in his London studio, 2017. Artwork © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS 2020
For two and a half minutes every day of January, Patti Smith will take over London's Piccadilly Lights advertising screen for her month-long installation “A New Year." The project is presented by digital arts platform Circa, which commissions a different artist each month to present new ideas that consider our world circa 2021. In this video message, Smith shares her wish for 2021. What is your wish for the year? The daily recitals will be streamed on the Circa website at 20:21 GMT for viewers to watch safely from home. Visitors walking into Piccadilly Circus are encouraged to wear a face mask and adhere to social distancing guidelines. Follow the link in our bio for more information, or to buy one of four new prints created by Smith as part of the project. __________ #PattiSmith #PiccadillyLights #Gagosian @circa.art @thisispattismith
#GagosianQuarterly: "When I’m in front of one of these paintings I want to feel rooted, and to look up at it as if I were searching the night sky." —Jennifer Guidi Laura Fried's interview with Jennifer Guidi on the occasion of her exhibition "Gemini" at Gagosian New York was one of the most popular articles on "Gagosian Quarterly" this year. Fried spoke with the artist about the works in the exhibition, the symbol of the serpent, and her evolving relationship to color. Follow the link in our bio to read the conversation. _________ #JenniferGuidi #Gagosian @jenguidi @lauramfried (1) Jennifer Guidi in her Los Angeles studio, 2020; (2) Installation view, "Jennifer Guidi: Gemini," Gagosian, West 24th Street, New York, February 28–April 4, 2020. Artwork © Jennifer Guidi. Photo: Rob McKeever
Join us online at 11:45pm GMT for a special New Year's Eve presentation featuring a performance by Patti Smith and her band, and a new video work by Anne Imhof. Follow the link in our bio to set a reminder. The performance marks the beginning of a month-long installation by Smith. For two minutes every day of January, she will take over London's Piccadilly Lights advertising screen. Combining musical performance with poetry, the installation will also be streamed online daily. The project is presented by digital arts platform Circa, which commissions a different artist each month to present new ideas that consider our world circa 2021. Visit circa.art for more information. __________ #PattiSmith #AnneImhof #Gagosian @circa.art @thisispattismith @anne_imhof
#GagosianQuarterly: “The way I understand these paintings now is completely different from when I began.” —Titus Kaphar In a piece for "Gagosian Quarterly," Jacoba Urist reports on a trip to Titus Kaphar’s studio in New Haven, Connecticut, to see his body of work “From a Tropical Space," which was recently exhibited at Gagosian New York. She writes on the emotional and sensory impact of these paintings and considers their singular place in the artist's oeuvre. This studio visit was one of the most popular articles of 2020. Follow the link in our bio. __________ #TitusKaphar #GagosianQuarterly #Gagosian @jacnyc @__nxthvn__ (1) Titus Kaphar in his studio, New Haven, Connecticut, 2019. Photo: John Lucas; (2,3) Titus Kaphar’s studio, New Haven, Connecticut, 2019. Photos: Titus Kaphar
“No one expected me. Everything awaited me.” ーPatti Smith Happy birthday to Patti Smith, who was born on this day, December 30, in Chicago. Join Smith and her band for a live birthday performance today at 9pm EST. For more details, follow the link in our bio.  Next month, Smith will take over London’s Piccadilly Lights advertising screen for two minutes every day at 20:21. Presented by digital arts platform Circa, the installation combines musical performance with poetry. A special New Year's Eve performance by Smith and her band marks the beginning of the project. In response to the evolution of Covid restrictions in London, this will now be online only. Join us from home at 11:45 GMT via the link in our bio. __________ #PattiSmith #Gagosian @thisispattismith @circa.art Patti Smith, “Auto-portrait, Alexandria, Egypt,” 2010 © Patti Smith
#GagosianQuarterly: "I always think about the sublime when I look at your work, because there’s something about the towns always bordering the natural world." —Cate Blanchett Earlier this year, actor Cate Blanchett spoke with Gregory Crewdson about his body of work "An Eclipse of Moths,” which was recently exhibited at Gagosian, Beverly Hills. The interview was one of the most popular pieces of content on "Gagosian Quarterly" this year. Follow the link in our bio to read the conversation. __________ #GregoryCrewdson #Gagosian @crewdsonstudio Gregory Crewdson; (1) "The Cabulance," 2018–19; (2) "Brown Street," 2018–19, digital pigment print, 50 × 88 ⅞ inches (127 × 225.7 cm), framed: 57 × 96 × 2 inches (144.8 × 243.8 × 5.1 cm); © Gregory Crewdson
"We humans permanently engage a suite of faculties that, on every level of interaction with our environment, conscious and unconscious, participate in predicting outcomes. We live in perpetual anticipation of probabilities, pattern." —William Forsythe Happy birthday to William Forsythe, who was born on this day, December 30, in New York. Celebrated choreographer Forsythe has been expanding the boundaries of dance for over four decades. In 1989 he began work on his "choreographic objects," a series of sculptural installations. These physical, object-based extensions of his choreographic practice have become an integral aspect of his work. A 2017 exhibition at Gagosian, Le Bourget, in Paris continued this experimentation with three works: "Black Flags," "Alignigung II," and "Towards the Diagnostic Gaze (Paris)." Filmmaker Ulrike Stumpp created a video documenting these works that includes an in-depth interview with the artist. Follow the link in our bio to watch the full video. _________ #WilliamForsythe #G
#GagosianQuarterly: A video showing Theaster Gates in his studio as he prepares for his ongoing exhibition, "Black Vessel," at Gagosian New York, was one of the most popular pieces of content this year. Shot on location in Chicago during the tumultuous weeks of protest in late spring 2020, Gates reflects on the metaphorical power of materials and process, and on the redemptive potential of art. Watch the video on IGTV or via the link in our bio. __________ #TheasterGates #Gagosian @theastergates Stills from the video "Theaster Gates: Black Vessel". Artwork © Theaster Gates; video: Chris Strong; video editing and postproduction: Parallax Postproduction
#GagosianQuarterly: This week, we'll be sharing a selection of the most popular content published on "Gagosian Quarterly" in 2020. First up is a video interview with Stanley Whitney, created while preparing for his first exhibition with the gallery in Rome earlier this year. Whitney speaks with Gagosian director Louise Neri in his New York studio about how he arrived at his unique and intuitive approach to color and space in painting, employing a dynamic fusion of preordained structure and improvisation. Watch the video on IGTV or via the link in our bio. __________ #StanleyWhitney #Gagosian @stanley.whitney Stills from the video "Stanley Whitney: Rhythm and Vision”. Artwork © Stanley Whitney; video: Pushpin Films (@pushpinfilms)
Happy holidays from Gagosian! With our warmest wishes for a safe, restful, and reflective holiday season, and a brighter new year in 2021, from all of us at Gagosian. Please note that all galleries will be closed over the holiday. Follow the link in our bio for information on our hours and exhibitions. __________ #SarahSze #Gagosian @sarahszestudio @publicartfund @lgaairport Sarah Sze’s permanent installation "Shorter than the Day" (2020) at LaGuardia Airport, New York, commissioned by Public Art Fund. Artwork © Sarah Sze. Photo: Nicholas Knight
"Something that I often try and do is make a sculpture that is just one sentence, or feels like that, or one word. I think that's where poetry can become very interesting, in the way things are sort of honed in on to such a degree that it's just the sound of two words touching." —Rachel Whiteread In today's episode of The Art Newspaper podcast "A brush with...," Ben Luke talks to Rachel Whiteread about her greatest cultural influences, from the novels of George Orwell to the art of Bruce Nauman, and why making work by hand is so important. Follow the link in our bio to listen. _________ #RachelWhiteread #Gagosian @rachelwhitereadofficial @theartnewspaper.official Rachel Whiteread, "Untitled (Stairs)," 2001 © Rachel Whiteread. Photo: courtesy Tate
#GagosianQuarterly: "I think that more than ever before, we have the impression that we’re participating in the undoing and redoing of history. We’re globally conscious that we’re doing this together." —Paul B. Preciado Paul B. Preciado joins Alison M. Gingeras and Jamieson Webster for a conversation about this difficult, extraordinary moment, as part of “New Interiorities,” a supplement guest edited by Gingeras and Webster for the Winter 2020 issue of the "Quarterly." Follow the link in our bio to read the piece. __________ #Gagosian @alisongingeras @jamiesonwebster Hugh Hefner working from his bed at the Playboy Mansion