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Sunday, January 28, 2024, 3pm
Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, California
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Join the Orange County Museum of Art for a conversation between Jennifer Guidi and OCMA CEO and director Heidi Zuckerman on the occasion of the artist’s exhibition And so it is., on view through February 18, 2024. The pair will discuss exploring the spiritual and metaphysical world, the importance of place, and Guidi’s rich history growing up in Orange County. The event is free to attend.

Saturday, January 20, 2024, 3pm
Gagosian, 980 Madison Avenue, New York

Join Gagosian for a conversation between Mary Weatherford and Chrissie Iles, curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, inside Sea and Space, the artist’s exhibition of new paintings and works on paper at Gagosian, 980 Madison Avenue, New York. Dominated by the color green, Weatherford’s paintings make visual reference to arboreal and aquatic environments, as well as outer space. The pair will discuss the inspiration and process behind these works, which are imbued with spatial illusion and a spirit of existential inquiry. Following the talk, the Gagosian Shop at 976 Madison Avenue will host a reception where Weatherford will sign copies of her new book, The Flaying of Marsyas, which documents her 2022 exhibition of the same title at Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Venice. Published by Gagosian, the book will be available for purchase at the event.

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December 9, 2023–April 30, 2024
Various locations in Chiang Rai, Thailand
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The Open World, the third edition of the Thailand Biennale, features a new immersive, site-specific installation by Sarah Sze titled Pictures at an Exhibition, alongside work by more than sixty international and local artists. Curated by Angkrit Ajchariyasophon and Manuporn Luengaram, with artistic directors Rirkrit Tiravanija and Gridthiya Gaweewong, the exhibition is installed across key venues in the northernmost part of the country, Chiang Rai, including art galleries, exhibition halls, museums, temples, and historic sites. The selected works address topical issues such as history, cultural diversity, nature, and ecology.

Thursday, December 14, 2023, 6–8pm
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
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Join the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, for a screening of Albert Oehlen’s Geel (2023) as part of MOCA’s Artist Film series, a dynamic platform for the presentation of artist films. A romance, Geel depicts Vincent van Gogh’s (played by Ben Becker) relationship with his models, whom he struggled to recruit and pay. The film additionally provides insight into the artist’s techniques, clearing up some common misunderstandings about them. The screening will be followed by a conversation between Oehlen and MOCA senior curator Bennett Simpson. The event is free to attend.

December 3, 2023–Fall 2026
Baltimore Museum of Art
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Derrick Adams’s Dewdrop Inn (2023) has been installed at the Baltimore Museum of Art as part of the reopening of the Patricia and Mark Joseph Education Center, which offers new opportunities for hands-on art making and engagement for families, students, and art lovers of all ages. The installation, which features a match-up card game designed by the artist, invites young museumgoers to interact with one another and learn about the museum’s rich collection of African American art.

Tuesday, December 5, 2023, 6:30pm
Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome
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Join Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, in collaboration with Gagosian, for a special screening of Anselm (2023), an immersive 3D documentary directed by Wim Wenders, which premiered at Festival de Cannes 2023. For over two years, Wenders traced Anselm Kiefer’s path from his native Germany to his former studio complex in southern France—now part of his foundation, Eschaton—weaving together pivotal moments in the artist’s life and decades-long career. This unique cinematic experience dives deep into Kiefer’s practice and reveals his inspiration and creative process, exploring his fascination with myth and history.

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Wednesday, December 6, 2023, 6:30pm
Gagosian, 4 rue de Ponthieu, Paris

Please join Gagosian for a conversation between Giuseppe Penone and architect Hala Wardé inside Impronte di luce / Empreintes de lumière, an exhibition of new paintings by the artist inspired by his experience of Le Corbusier’s Couvent Sainte-Marie de La Tourette in Éveux, France. The longtime friends will discuss Penone’s latest body of work and their most recent collaboration for Louvre Abu Dhabi, where Wardé was partner architect and Penone was one of two artists commissioned to create site-specific permanent installations. They will also consider the creative exploration of space, form, and material inherent to both art and architecture, shedding light on the fascinating intersections that shape their collaborative efforts. The conversation will be conducted in French.

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Friday, December 8, 2023, 5:30–9pm
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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“Magick and Mysticism” is the first night of My Harry, a three-day gathering celebrating the eclectic life and serpentine pursuits of Harry Smith. Featuring Carol Bove, Raymond Foye, Andrew Lampert, and Charles Stein, this evening is devoted to talks and conversations about Smith’s interest in and artistic explorations of spiritual and occult practices alongside listening sessions and screenings. 

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November 23–December 23, 2023
Sogetsu Kaikan, Tokyo
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In SPECTERS TOKYO, Sterling Ruby’s first public installation in Japan, the artist creates a dialogue with Isamu Noguchi’s indoor stone garden Heaven (1977–78), which is permanently installed in the lobby of the Sogetsu Foundation headquarters. Exploring the interactions between the living and the dead, Ruby’s site-specific work draws influence from kaidan, a genre of Japanese ghost stories. The otherworldly scene includes spectral figures made from heavily worn, tattered textiles and found objects that are suspended from the ceiling like puppets.

Opening reception: Tuesday, December 5, 5–8pm
December 5–10, 2023
Miami Design District, 35 NE 40th Street, Miami

Gagosian is pleased to announce Forms, the eighth annual thematic group exhibition presented jointly by Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch during Art Basel Miami Beach. The dominant narrative of modern art has focused largely on a swing between the stylistic oppositions of figuration and abstraction. Forms explores alternatives to these paired categories through works that investigate how objects might function as surrogates for human reality, or that refer to objects indirectly through abstracted visual language. Playing on the ambiguities of its title, the art in Forms exists somewhere between a nonrepresentational formalism and a realism of forms, proposing different models for communicating the physical and symbolic complexities of the body.

November 30–December 16, 2023
Various locations in Riyadh
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The third annual Noor Riyadh, a citywide festival of public art installations, will showcase expansive light-based artworks by more than one hundred artists across five pivotal city hubs. Titled The Bright Side of the Desert Moon, the selection features ephemeral sculptures, urban projections, and immersive site-specific installations, including neon works by Douglas Gordon and Carsten Höller. 

Saturday, December 9, 2023, 2pm
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
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Jordan Wolfson will be in conversation with National Gallery of Australia’s head curator, Russell Storer, to celebrate the world premiere of Wolfson’s new robotic work, Body Sculpture (2023), a recent major acquisition by the gallery. Together they will trace the development of the work over the past six years, from the artist’s original vision to the various collaborations and cutting-edge technologies required to realize it. The event will also be livestreamed and is free to attend online with registration.

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Tuesday, December 12, 2023, 7pm
Gagosian, Beverly Hills

Join Gagosian and Phaidon for a talk by Robert Zeller inside Ewa Juszkiewicz’s exhibition In a Shady Valley, Near a Running Water at Gagosian, Beverly Hills, to celebrate the publication of New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting, Zeller’s sweeping exposition of Surrealism and its legacy in contemporary art. Demonstrating the many ways in which the art movement that began in the early twentieth century continues to be relevant today, the book presents an international selection of contemporary artists whose works reveal Surrealism’s enduring influence, including Juszkiewicz, whose painting is featured on its cover. After the talk, Zeller will sign copies of the book, which will be available for purchase.

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November 18, 2023–January 30, 2024, 5:30pm–1am daily
Corniche, Abu Dhabi
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Carsten Höller’s Abu Dhabi Dots (2023) is installed on the waterfront in Abu Dhabi as part of the inaugural edition of Manar Abu Dhabi, a festival offering an immersive, multisensory experience to celebrate the natural beauty of the United Arab Emirates. The second installment of the artist’s Dots series, the public light exhibit, which begins each evening at 5:30pm, comprises twenty spotlights in four colors that follow participants’ movements and allow them to play a “reward and punishment” game with one another.

Wednesday, January 24, 2024, 7:30pm
Sarabande Foundation, London
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Rachel Whiteread will be in conversation with Tim Marlow, director of the Design Museum, London, for the next installment in the series of INSPIRED talks organized by the Sarabande Foundation. The pair will discuss Whiteread’s recent and current projects and delve into the twists and turns of her creative career to date—from concept to form, and everything in between. Using industrial materials such as plaster, concrete, resin, rubber, and metal to cast everyday objects and architectural elements, Whiteread’s sculptural works are instantly recognizable as evocative interrogations of negative space, from the domestic to the monumental.

This event was originally scheduled for Wednesday, December 6, 2023.

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November 16, 2023–March 15, 2024
Gagosian Shop, London

A selection of paper-based works and furniture by Franz West is on view at the Gagosian Shop in London’s historic Burlington Arcade. Installed throughout both floors of the space, the exhibited works are imbued with the Austrian artist’s riotous fusion of sincerity and absurdity. West’s series of drawings, posters, and collages, conjured from photographs, tawdry advertisements, and soft porn, possess the same raucous aesthetic and wit as his plaster and papier-mâché sculptures and his elegant pieces of functional furniture, which further expand the relationship between art and audience.

November 16, 2023–January 7, 2024
The Connaught, London
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Encouraging passersby to celebrate a feeling of togetherness, Rachel Whiteread has used 102 white neon hoops to decorate the Connaught hotel’s 31-foot (9.4-meter) Nordmann’s fir. Whiteread regularly uses circular motifs within her practice and here they illuminate the streets of Mayfair, acting as a symbol of hope and unity this festive season.

Tuesday, November 14, 2023, 7pm
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Los Angeles
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Join the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (lacma) for a special presentation of Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV. The feature-length documentary chronicles the challenging life and times of Nam June Paik (1936–2006), a pillar of the American avant-garde. Featuring readings of the artist’s writing by actor Steven Yeun, the film uses extensive archival footage and clips from Paik’s work to recount his collaborations with luminaries such as Joseph Beuys, Merce Cunningham, John Cage, and others. After the screening, Yeun, who was also an executive producer on the film, will speak with fellow producer Jennifer Stockman and lacma CEO Michael Govan.

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November 8, 2023–June 2024
Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna
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Anselm Kiefer has been selected to design the twenty-sixth Eiserner Vorhang (Safety Curtain), an annual project by Vienna’s museum in progress, a nonprofit art initiative that transforms the fire protection wall between the stage and the auditorium of the Vienna State Opera into a temporary exhibition space for contemporary art. Kiefer’s work is on view for the audience before and after performances and during intermissions.

Saturday, November 18, 2023, 6pm
Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio, Rome
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Join Gagosian for a conversation between Sabine Moritz and Hans Ulrich Obrist, curator and artistic director of Serpentine, to mark the closing of the artist’s exhibition August at Gagosian, Rome. Moderated by art historian and curator Cristiana Perrella, the discussion will center around Moritz’s latest large-scale paintings, as well as the contemporary relevance of abstract painting and its ability to embody history, memory, and the natural world. The conversation will be conducted in English.

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Tuesday, November 28, 2023, 7pm
IFC Center, New York
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Join Gagosian and White Cube for a special screening of Anselm (2023), an immersive 3D documentary directed by Wim Wenders, which premiered at Festival de Cannes 2023. For over two years, Wenders traced Anselm Kiefer’s path from his native Germany to his former studio complex in southern France—now part of his foundation, Eschaton—weaving together pivotal moments in the artist’s life and decades-long career. This unique cinematic experience dives deep into Kiefer’s practice and reveals his inspiration and creative process, exploring his fascination with myth and history.

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Wednesday, November 15, 2023, 6:30pm
New York Studio School
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Join David Reed and painter and author Geoffrey Dorfman to celebrate the release of the new edition of Milton Resnick: The New York Studio School Talks, 1968–1972. Transcribed and edited by Dorfman, the Resnick talks were first published in Out of the Picture: Milton Resnick and the New York School in 2003. This new printing includes “The Empty-Handed Painter,” an introduction by Reed, who studied at the New York Studio School and attended the talks. Reed and Dorfman will discuss the publication and their relationships with the first-generation New York School painter. The event is free to attend on a first-come, first-served basis, or online with registration.

November 17–22, 2023
Metrograph, New York
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Walton Ford has curated a selection of films as part of a series copresented by Gagosian and Metrograph. The program features five films that explore extreme psychological states in their storylines and use pioneering and sometimes unconventional acting and cinematographic techniques to achieve the result. Ford explains, “These films dive deep into characters in ways that are sometimes harrowing and always completely surprising. None of these films are cliché or pat, and all share an unorthodox style or method. As a narrative painter, I seek to explore subjects and tell stories in this way.”

Featured films include
At Land (1944, directed by Maya Deren)
Heat Lightning (1934, directed by Mervyn LeRoy)
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943, directed by Maya Deren and Alexandr Hackenschmied)
Naked (1993, directed by Mike Leigh)
The Sword of Doom (1966, directed by Kihachi Okamoto)

Friday, November 17, 2023, 8pm
Metrograph, New York
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Join Walton Ford and designer and actor Waris Ahluwalia for a conversation and screening on the occasion of Walton Ford Selects, a film program curated by the artist as part of a series copresented by Gagosian and Metrograph. The pair will discuss how the selected films share an unorthodox style or method and delve into characters in ways that are sometimes harrowing and always surprising. After the talk, a trio of films—Heat Lightning (1934), Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), and At Land (1944)—will be screened.

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