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.
Events
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
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
Launch
Gagosian & Music
Thursday, May 9, 2024, 7–9pm
magCulture, London
magculture.com
Join Gagosian Quarterly to celebrate the launch of “Gagosian & Music,” a themed supplement in the Summer 2024 issue. With features on Lucinda Chua, Lonnie Holley, Trevor Horn, Éliane Radigue, and Jordi Savall, as well as a chronicle of white noise by Jace Clayton and a personal history of goth music by Dan Fox, the issue offers a look at the power of sound. The evening’s playlist will be curated by Fox and complimentary cocktails by Amante 1530 will be available, in addition to copies of the magazine.
“Gagosian & Music” supplement in the Summer 2024 issue of Gagosian Quarterly
In Conversation
Rick Lowe
Dieter Roelstraete
Tuesday, April 30, 2024, 6pm
Seminary Co-op Bookstore, Chicago
www.semcoop.com
Rick Lowe and Dieter Roelstraete, curator of the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society at the University of Chicago, will be in conversation at the Seminary Co-op Bookstore in Chicago, in partnership with the Neubauer Collegium. The pair will discuss the artist’s recent monograph—the first to present a comprehensive, career-spanning account of Lowe’s art and social practice. Copublished by Gagosian and the Neubauer Collegium, the book was coedited by Roelstraete and also features an essay by the curator. The event is free to attend and will include a question-and-answer session.
Rick Lowe (New York: Gagosian, 2023)
Announcements
Honor
Tatiana Trouvé
Årets Skulptør 2024
Tatiana Trouvé has been named 2024’s Sculptor of the Year by Kistefos in Jevnaker, Norway. Every year, the chosen artist is invited to create a site-specific work to be permanently installed in the museum’s sculpture park. Trouvé’s two Kistefos sculptures are part of her Guardian series (2013–), which symbolize fictional characters who guard different places and life forms. The artist created the works in response to the former wood pulp mill in which they will be installed—keeping not only the landscape and local animal life in mind, but also the building’s industrial history and the people who have shaped it into the institution it is today. The work will be unveiled on May 4, in conjunction with the opening of the 2024 season, and is the fifty-third commission in the collection.
Tatiana Trouvé, The Guardian, 2024 © Tatiana Trouvé. Photo: Thomas Lannes
Announcement
Exhibiting Forgiveness
Acquired by Roadside Attractions
Exhibiting Forgiveness (2023), a film written, directed, and produced by Titus Kaphar, which premiered in January 2024 at the Sundance Film Festival, has been acquired by the film distribution company Roadside Attractions. Exploring family, generational healing, and the power of forgiveness, the motion picture follows a Black artist (André Holland) attempting to overcome the trauma of his past through painting; he is on the path to success when he is derailed by an unexpected visit from his estranged father. The film will open in theaters nationwide in Fall 2024.
Still from Exhibiting Forgiveness (2023), directed by Titus Kaphar
Support
Ed Ruscha × Avant Arte
Limited-Edition Print for LACMA
Ed Ruscha has partnered with Avant Arte, an online art marketplace, to create a limited-edition print of his painting Actual Size (1962) on the occasion of ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN, a major retrospective of his work at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. A portion of proceeds from sales will benefit the museum’s future. The print will be available for purchase online at Avant Arte for forty-eight hours beginning at 1pm ET on Thursday, April 11, 2024. The edition size will be determined by the number of orders placed within the timed-release period. Each print is individually numbered and authenticated with a bespoke artist’s stamp.
Ed Ruscha, Actual Size, 2024 © Ed Ruscha
Honor
Neil Jenney
Tribeca Ball 2024
Neil Jenney is the honoree of the Tribeca Ball 2024, taking place on April 1 in New York. During the annual gala, the five floors of the New York Academy of Art are open for guests to explore while students offer a firsthand look at their creative processes. Proceeds from the event support the nonprofit school, which was founded by artists in 1982, and its mission to empower a new generation of artists, and will be used to establish the Neil Jenney Artist Scholarship Fund.
Neil Jenney with a portrait of himself by Joseph McNamara at Gagosian, 980 Madison Avenue, New York, 2013. Artwork © Joseph McNamara. Photo: Robert Wright/The New York Times/Redux
Honor
Giuseppe Penone
Årets Konstnär 2024
Giuseppe Penone has been named 2024’s Artist of the Year by Prinsessan Estelles Kulturstiftelse (preks), a foundation established in 2019 by Sweden’s Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel and named for their daughter, Princess Estelle, with the mission of promoting cultural activities in the country. Every year, the chosen artist is invited to create a monumental, site-specific work to be permanently installed within Prinsessan Estelles Skulpturpark, a sculpture park at Royal Djurgården in Stockholm. Penone’s sculpture, The Inner Flow of Life (2022), will be unveiled on May 30, 2024.
Giuseppe Penone, Project for Royal Djurgaden, 2022 © Giuseppe Penone/2024 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Photo: © Archivio Penone
Permanent Installation
James Turrell
Leading
James Turrell’s Leading (2023) has been permanently installed at Friends Seminary, a Quaker school in Manhattan, New York. On the school’s sixth floor, the artist created a meeting room whose roof opens to the sky and bathes the space in a spectrum of shifting radiant color, while the sky appears to float inside the installation. Leading is the only one of more than eighty-five Skyspaces by Turrell around the world attached to an active K-12 school. The installation is open to the public on the last Friday of each month that Friends Seminary is in session.
James Turrell, Leading, 2023 © James Turrell. Photo: John Galayda
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
Closing this Week
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
Closing this Week
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
On View
Derrick Adams
Future People . . . Take Off
Through May 25, 2024
PES FUTURES, New York
www.pesfutures.org
Derrick Adams’s exhibition Future People . . . Take Off, an imagined environment meditating on past, present, and future ideas of Black culture, Futurism, and African roots, is the inaugural presentation in the PES FUTURES program. Sited in Project for Empty Space’s new headquarters, PES FUTURES is a space for artists interested in the realization of parallel and intersecting potentialities and the possibility to claim and reclaim space through their work. Inspired by the Afrofuturist movement, Adams’s installation incorporates images, video, and music.
Installation view, Derrick Adams: Future People . . . Take Off, PES FUTURES, New York, March 27–May 25, 2024. Artwork © Derrick Adams Studio. Photo: Carlos Hernandez
On View
Stanley Whitney
How High the Moon
Through May 26, 2024
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York
buffaloakg.org
Conveying the breadth of Stanley Whitney’s practice from the early 1970s through today, this exhibition of artist’s paintings at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York (formerly the Albright-Knox Art Gallery), also includes a robust installation of drawings, prints, and sketchbooks. The retrospective contextualizes Whitney’s practice in relation to his artistic community as well as his influences—from the history of art and architecture to quilting, textiles, and jazz.
Installation view, Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York, February 9–May 26, 2024. Artwork © Stanley Whitney. Photo: Brenda Bieger, Buffalo AKG Art Museum
On View
Sally Mann in
Love Languages
Open from September 2, 2023
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
www.mfah.org
Love Languages considers how the making of art is a type of love language all of its own. The installation attempts to address the question “How do we prioritize tenderness against debilitating social conditions?” The works on view engage with the necessity of intimacy in interpersonal and collective relationships. Work by Sally Mann is included.
Sally Mann, Jessie #25, 2004 © Sally Mann
On View
The Whitney’s Collection
Selections from 1900 to 1965
Opened June 28, 2019
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
whitney.org
This exhibition of more than 120 works, drawn entirely from the Whitney’s collection, is inspired by the founding history of the museum. The Whitney was established in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney to champion the work of living American artists. A sculptor and a patron, Whitney recognized both the importance of contemporary American art and the need to support the artists who made it. The collection she assembled foregrounds how artists uniquely reveal the complexity and beauty of American life. Work by Jay DeFeo, Willem de Kooning, Roy Lichtenstein, Man Ray, Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol, and Tom Wesselmann is included.
Installation view, The Whitney’s Collection: Selections from 1900 to 1965, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, June 28, 2019–May 2022. Artwork, left to right: © 2020 The Jay DeFeo Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; © Norman Lewis; © 2020 The Franz Kline Estate/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Ron Amstutz
On View
Indian Skies
The Howard Hodgkin Collection of Indian Court Painting
Through June 9, 2024
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
www.metmuseum.org
Over the course of sixty years, Howard Hodgkin formed a collection of Indian paintings and drawings that is recognized as one of the finest of its kind. The artist collected works from the Mughal, Deccani, Rajput, and Pahari courts dating from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. This exhibition presents over 120 of these works, many of which the Metropolitan Museum of Art recently acquired, alongside loans from the Howard Hodgkin Indian Collection Trust.
Installation view, Indian Skies: The Howard Hodgkin Collection of Indian Court Painting, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 6–June 9, 2024. Photo: Hyla Skopitz
On View
Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron
Portraits to Dream In
Through June 16, 2024
National Portrait Gallery, London
www.npg.org.uk
Photographers Francesca Woodman (1958–1981) and Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–1879) lived a century apart—Cameron working in the United Kingdom and Sri Lanka from the 1860s onwards, and Woodman in the United States and Italy from the 1970s. Both women explored portraiture, going beyond its ability to record appearance, and using their own creativity and imagination to suggest notions of beauty, symbolism, transformation, and storytelling. Showcasing more than 150 rare vintage prints, this exhibition presents an overview of both artists’ careers, and suggests new ways both to look at their work and to examine how photographic portraiture was created in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Francesca Woodman, Untitled, Providence, Rhode Island, 1975–78 © Woodman Family Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
On View
Affinità elettive
Picasso, Matisse, Klee e Giacometti
Through June 23, 2024
Gallerie dell’Accademia and Casa dei Tre Oci, Venice
www.gallerieaccademia.it
Affinità elettive, whose title translates to Elective Affinities, is held across two locations in Venice: Gallerie dell’Accademia and Casa dei Tre Oci, the European headquarters of the Berggruen Institute. More than forty works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee, Alberto Giacometti, and Paul Cezanne, all from the collection of the Museum Berggruen in Berlin, are presented alongside Venetian paintings from the Gallerie dell’Accademia. The exhibition aims to explore the dialogue between these two different collections and the similarities in iconography and subject matter that arise.
Pablo Picasso, Dora Maar aux ongles verts, 1936, Museum Berggruen, Berlin © Succession Picasso 2024 by SIAE 2024. Photo: Jens Ziehe