Screening of Jerry Schatzberg’s 1973 feature film Scarecrow, starring Gene Hackman and Al Pacino, at Metrograph, New York, November 3, 2019; talk moderated by Carlos Valladares, who wrote on Schatzberg’s career in the Winter 2019 issue of Gagosian Quarterly; talk held in tandem with the exhibition Birth Machine Baby: H. R. Giger and Mark Prent, curated by Harmony Korine, Gagosian, Park & 75, New York, November 5–December 21, 2019; video: Pushpin Films
November 22, 2019
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To celebrate Gagosian Quarterly’s Winter 2019 feature on photographer and filmmaker Jerry Schatzberg, the essay’s author, Carlos Valladares, led a conversation between the director and Harmony Korine at Metrograph, New York. The discussion followed a screening of Schatzberg’s 1973 film Scarecrow.
The Center of the Storm
Carlos Valladares writes on filmmaker and photographer Jerry Schatzberg’s prolific career.
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Pat Steir: Artist
From May 28 to 30, 2022, Gagosian Quarterly is presented a special continuous screening of Pat Steir: Artist, a film by Veronica Gonzalez Peña, coinciding with Steir’s exhibition at Gagosian, Rome. This intimate, revelatory documentary offers special insight into Steir’s life and career, which spans more than five decades.
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Emily in Japan: The Making of an Exhibition
From February 25 to 27, 2022, Gagosian Quarterly presented a special continuous online screening of Emily in Japan: The Making of an Exhibition, coinciding with Emily Kame Kngwarreye’s first ever exhibition in France at Gagosian, Paris. Made by Ronin Films, and directed by Andrew Pike, this feature-length documentary tracks the development and mounting of the Kngwarreye retrospective that toured Osaka and Tokyo in 2008. Featuring interviews with the curators, Margo Neale, a leading Australian authority on Indigenous art, and Japanese critic, curator, and poet Akira Tatehata, the film underscores the historical importance of this museum presentation.
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Katharina Grosse: Think Big!
From October 21 to 23, 2021, Gagosian Quarterly presented a special English-language online screening of Claudia Müller’s Katharina Grosse: Think Big!
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Chris Burden: Big Wrench
From January 23 to February 21, 2019, Gagosian Quarterly presented a special online screening of Chris Burden’s 1980 video Big Wrench.
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.
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.
Stanley Whitney: Vibrations of the Day
Stanley Whitney invited professor and musician-biographer John Szwed to his studio on Long Island, New York, as he prepared for an upcoming survey at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum to discuss the resonances between painting and jazz.
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 facing museums, foundations, and curators. He reflects on his various roles within museums and recounts his first meeting with Frankenthaler.
Oscar Murillo: Marks and Whispers
Ahead of two exhibitions—The Flooded Garden at Tate Modern, London, and Marks and Whispers at Gagosian, Rome—curator Alessandro Rabottini visited Oscar Murillo’s London studio to discuss the connections between them.
Vladimir Kagan’s First Collection: An Interview with Chris Eitel
Chris Eitel, Vladimir Kagan’s protégé and the current director of design and production at Vladimir Kagan Design Group, invited the Quarterly’s Wyatt Allgeier to the brand’s studio in New Jersey, where the two discussed the forthcoming release of the First Collection. The series, now available through holly hunt, reintroduces the first chair and table that Kagan ever designed—part of Eitel’s efforts to honor the furniture avant-gardist’s legacy while carrying the company into the future.
Simon Hantaï: Azzurro
Join curator Anne Baldassari as she discusses the exhibition Simon Hantaï:Azzurro, Gagosian, Rome, and the significance of blue in the artist’s practice. The show forms part of a triptych with Gagosian’s two previous Hantaï exhibitions, LES NOIRS DU BLANC, LES BLANCS DU NOIR at Le Bourget in 2019–20, and Les blancs de la couleur, la couleur du blanc in New York, in 2022.