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.
Nan Goldin: Sisters, Saints, Sibyls
Michael Cary explores the history behind, and power within, Nan Goldin’s video triptych Sisters, Saints, Sibyls. The work will be on view at the former Welsh chapel at 83 Charing Cross Road, London, as part of Gagosian Open, from May 30 to June 23, 2024.
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.
Notes to Selves, Trains of Thought
Dieter Roelstraete, curator at the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society at the University of Chicago and coeditor of a recent monograph on Rick Lowe, writes on Lowe’s journey from painting to community-based projects and back again in this essay from the publication. At the Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Venice, during the 60th Biennale di Venezia, Lowe will exhibit new paintings that develop his recent motifs to further explore the arch in architecture.
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.
Lacan, the exhibition
On the heels of finishing a new novel, Scaffolding, that revolves around a Lacanian analyst, Lauren Elkin traveled to Metz, France, to take in Lacan, the exhibition. When art meets psychoanalysis at the Centre Pompidou satellite in that city. Here she reckons with the scale and intellectual rigor of the exhibition, teasing out the connections between the art on view and the philosophy of Jacques Lacan.
Jim Shaw: A–Z
Charlie Fox takes a whirlwind trip through the Jim Shaw universe, traveling along the letters of the alphabet.
Laguna~B
An interview with Marcantonio Brandolini d’Adda, artist, designer, and CEO and art director of the Venice-based glassware company Laguna~B.
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.
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 of museums, foundations, and curators. He reflects on his various roles within museums and recounts his first meeting with Frankenthaler.
Willem de Kooning and Italy
In tandem with the 60th Biennale di Venezia, the city’s Gallerie dell’Accademia is featuring the exhibition Willem de Kooning and Italy, an in-depth examination of the artist’s time in Italy and of the influence of that experience on his work. On September 20 of last year, the curators of the exhibition, the American Gary Garrels and the Italian Mario Codognato, engaged in a lengthy conversation about the exhibition for a press conference at the museum. An edited transcript of that conversation is published below for the first time.
Events & Announcements
Public Installation
Lauren Halsey
sister dreamer, lauren halsey’s architectural ode to tha surge n splurge of south central los angeles
April 2025–November 2026
South Central Los Angeles
sisterdreamer.com
Lauren Halsey has partnered with the nonprofit arts organization Los Angeles Nomadic Division to create a sculpture park in South Central Los Angeles titled sister dreamer, lauren halsey’s architectural ode to tha surge n splurge of south central los angeles. Halsey’s nonprofit Summaeverythang Community Center will oversee public programming for the site, including jazz nights, yoga, art conservations, screenings, and more. The project is a monument to her local community, featuring eight sphinxes and eight Hathoric columns carved with portraits of the artist’s personal heroes, family, friends, and community organizers, among other meaningful imagery.
Rendering of Lauren Halsey’s sister dreamer, lauren halsey’s architectural ode to tha surge n splurge of south central los angeles. Artwork © Lauren Halsey
Visit
London Gallery Weekend 2024
Nan Goldin
May 31–June 2, 2024
Various locations in London
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As part of London Gallery Weekend, Gagosian will have extended hours at its London locations. Visitors can see Nan Goldin’s film Sisters, Saints, Sibyls, the second presentation of Gagosian Open, at 83 Charing Cross Road, as well as an exhibition of select early black-and-white photographs by the artist at Gagosian, Burlington Arcade.
Additionally, Goldin’s Gagosian Shop takeover is open, featuring a reading room of books she has chosen, publications on her work, and a display of in-progress layouts from Heartbeat, a forthcoming nine-volume catalogue raisonné published by Steidl. In its fourth year, London Gallery Weekend is a free annual event featuring over 150 of the city’s leading contemporary art galleries coming together to celebrate culture and creativity.
Gagosian Open
Gagosian, Burlington Arcade
Gagosian Shop, Burlington Arcade
Friday, May 31, 10am–8pm
Saturday, June 1, 10am–8pm
Sunday, June 2, 10am–6pm
Nan Goldin, Marlene as a showgirl on stage with Sylvia Sidney, The Other Side, Boston, 1973 © Nan Goldin
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, The Inner Flow of Life, 2022 © Giuseppe Penone/2024 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Örjan Furberg, courtesy Princess Estelle Cultural Foundation
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
Museum Exhibitions
Closing Today
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
Opening this Week
Katharina Grosse
Déplacer les étoiles
June 1, 2024–February 24, 2025
Centre Pompidou-Metz, France
www.centrepompidou-metz.fr
This site-specific exhibition by Katharina Grosse, whose title translates to Shifting the Stars, will see more than 8,000 square meters of brightly colored fabric suspended by enormous knots from the soaring ceilings of the Grande Nef, the museum’s “great nave” that was designed for the presentation of monumental artworks. The fabric will drape and spill out from the Grande Nef onto the forecourt of the Centre Pompidou-Metz to plunge visitors into a disorienting, yet thrilling, sea of color.
Installation view, Katharina Grosse: The Horse Trotted Another Couple of Metres, Then It Stopped, Carriageworks, Sydney, January 6–April 8, 2018. Artwork © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2017. Photo: Zan Wimberley
Opening this Week
Van Gogh et les Étoiles
June 1–September 8, 2024
Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, France
www.fondation-vincentvangogh-arles.org
This exhibition, whose title translates to Van Gogh and the Stars, is centered around Vincent van Gogh’s painting Starry Night (1888), which was painted in Arles and is loaned by the Museé d’Orsay in Paris. Through 165 works by more than seventy-eight artists, the exhibition aims to shed new light on van Gogh’s practice, highlighting its legacy and the erudite work and research carried out by the artist throughout his life. Work by Helen Frankenthaler, Thomas Houseago, and Anselm Kiefer is included.
Helen Frankenthaler, Star Gazing, 1989, Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, New York © 2024 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Closing this Week
Lacan, L’exposition
Quand l’art rencontre la psychanalyse
Through May 27, 2024
Centre Pompidou-Metz, France
www.centrepompidou-metz.fr
This exhibition, whose title translates to Lacan, the Exhibition: When Art Meets Psychoanalysis, is the first museum presentation dedicated to the French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist Jacques Lacan. Closely involved with twentieth-century art and artists, Lacan intrigued and provoked—interpreting artworks not just as something to see, but as objects that look back at the viewer. The multipart exhibition invites visitors on an intellectual journey through artworks that engage with Lacanian concepts such as “the mirror stage,” “lalangue,” and “jouissance.” Work by Maurizio Cattelan, Alberto Giacometti, Nan Goldin, Douglas Gordon, Anselm Kiefer, Pablo Picasso, Tatiana Trouvé, and Andy Warhol is included.
Tatiana Trouvé, Priapus, 2010 © Tatiana Trouvé. Photo: Thomas Lannes