On View
Brice Marden
It reminds me of something, and I don’t know what it is.
November 9–December 21, 2019
980 Madison Avenue, New York
Gerhard Richter
Prints
November 8–December 21, 2019
976 Madison Avenue, New York
Birth Machine Baby
H. R. Giger and Mark Prent | Curated by Harmony Korine
November 5–December 21, 2019
Park & 75, New York
Extended through December 21, 2019
Richard Serra
Forged Rounds
September 17–December 21, 2019
West 24th Street, New York
Richard Serra
Reverse Curve
September 17, 2019–February 1, 2020
West 21st Street, New York
Tatiana Trouvé
On the Eve of Never Leaving
November 1, 2019–January 11, 2020
Beverly Hills
Extended through November 30, 2019
Giuseppe Penone
Foglie di bronzo / Leaves of Bronze
September 12–November 30, 2019
San Francisco
Cy Twombly
Sculpture
September 30–December 21, 2019
Grosvenor Hill, London
Sterling Ruby
ACTS + TABLE
October 2–December 14, 2019
Britannia Street, London
Cy Twombly Shop
September 28–December 21, 2019
Davies Street, London
Spencer Sweeney
Smalls
October 14–December 20, 2019
Paris
Urs Fischer
Leo
October 14–December 20, 2019
Paris
Simon Hantaï
LES NOIRS DU BLANC, LES BLANCS DU NOIR
October 13, 2019–March 14, 2020
Le Bourget
Katharina Grosse | Tatiana Trouvé
September 13–November 30, 2019
Basel
Huma Bhabha
The Company
September 19–December 14, 2019
Rome
Work in Progress
Huma Bhabha
The artist tells Negar Azimi about her interest in the monstrous, the influence of science fiction on her practice, and her recent rooftop commission at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Now available
Gagosian Quarterly Winter 2019
The Winter 2019 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring a selection from Christopher Wool’s Westtexaspsychosculpture series on its cover.
Mansplaining: Figuring Masculinity in the Age of #MeToo
In light of recent developments around the definition of masculinity in American culture, Alison M. Gingeras, the curator of John Currin: My Life as a Man at Dallas Contemporary looks closely at the artist’s depictions of male subjects.
Reading Nam June Paik
Earlier this year, MIT Press released We Are in Open Circuits: Writings by Nam June Paik. Here Gregory Zinman, coeditor of the book along with John Hanhardt and Edith Decker-Phillips, writes about his first exposure to the artist’s archives, the discoveries made there, and the relationship between Paik’s writings and his larger practice.
Before the Smoke Has Cleared
Angela Brown provides a glimpse into the charged ecologies of recent drawings and sculptures by Tatiana Trouvé. These works will be included in On the Eve of Never Leaving, Trouvé’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, opening in November 2019.
Sarah Sze: Art That Explores Time and Memory
Join Sarah Sze as she talks about the questions that drive her work. She describes creating immersive experiences that blur the lines between time, memory, and space—and between art and life.
Abstract Climates: Helen Frankenthaler in Provincetown
Lise Motherwell, a stepdaughter of Helen Frankenthaler and vice president of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, and Elizabeth Smith, executive director of the Foundation, recently cocurated an exhibition of the artist’s work entitled Abstract Climates: Helen Frankenthaler in Provincetown. Here they discuss the origin of the exhibition, the relationship between the artist’s work and her summers spent in Provincetown, and the presentations at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, in 2018, and the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, in 2019.
In Conversation
Nathaniel Mary Quinn and Troy Carter
On the eve of the opening of his first exhibition with Gagosian, in Beverly Hills, Nathaniel Mary Quinn joined Troy Carter for a conversation at LA’s Hammer Museum. They spoke about deliverance, Quinn’s new work, and what drives him to make art.
The Art of Perception: Richard Serra’s Films
For eleven years, from 1968 to 1979, Richard Serra created a collection of films and videos that felt out the uncharted phenomenological boundaries of the medium. Carlos Valladares explores a selection of these works.
Sterling Ruby: Disjointed Monuments to Nothing
Alessandro Rabottini investigates the theoretical and formal underpinnings of Sterling Ruby’s career through the lens of the artist’s series ACTS.
Behind the Art
Michael Craig-Martin: Ordinariness
Join Michael Craig-Martin at his London studio as he speaks about his working methods, his interest in the ordinary, and his abiding concern for the sculptural.
Rachel Feinstein
The artist discusses her life and work with Alan Yentob.
Events & Announcements
Panel Discussion
Helen Frankenthaler
A Celebration
Monday, November 25, 2019, 6:30–8pm
Tate Modern, London
www.tate.org.uk
On the occasion of Helen Frankenthaler, a yearlong display of the artist’s work at Tate Modern, London, Clifford Ross, chairman of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, and art historian Briony Fer will discuss Frankenthaler’s life, work, and legacy. The talk will be chaired by Mark Godfrey, senior curator of international art at Tate Modern. To attend the event, purchase tickets at www.tate.org.uk.
Helen Frankenthaler, Vessel, 1961 © 2019 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Screening
Videocittà VideoArt Week
Chris Burden
November 19–27, 2019
Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome
www.videocitta.com
Videocittà, a festival celebrating moving images, presents VideoArt Week. The contemporary art program will show the work of eighty artists, including Chris Burden, over the course of nine days and includes screenings, as well as meetings with artists, curators, and art critics. Burden’s Documentation of Selected Works 1971–74 will be screened on Tuesday, November 19, from 11am to 8pm. The event is free to attend.
Chris Burden, Documentation of Selected Works 1971–74, 1971–75 (still) © 2019 Chris Burden/Licensed by the Chris Burden Estate and Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York
Screening
Sterling Ruby
Dihedral
November 27–30, 2019
Gagosian, Britannia Street, London
Join Gagosian for a special screening of Sterling Ruby’s Dihedral (2006) on the occasion of the exhibition ACTS + TABLE, on view through December 14. In the short video, a voice-over intones a modified quote from sociologist Roger Caillois’s surrealist etymological text, “Mimicry and Legendary Psychasthenia,” as waves of color encounter a clear liquid. Dihedral illustrates the process that is captured in Ruby’s ACTS series, in which liquid dye is fixed inside clear urethane blocks. The film will be screened during gallery opening hours, from 10am to 6pm. The event is free and open to the public.
Sterling Ruby, Dihedral, 2006 (still) © Sterling Ruby
Book Launch
Picasso and Maya
Father and Daughter
November 29–December 20, 2019
Gagosian, 4 rue de Ponthieu, Paris
Gagosian and Diana Widmaier-Picasso are presenting a small exhibition to celebrate the publication of Picasso and Maya: Father and Daughter. This comprehensive reference publication explores the figure of Maya Ruiz-Picasso, Pablo Picasso’s beloved eldest daughter, throughout Picasso’s work and chronicles the loving relationship between the artist and his daughter. On view will be a painting by Picasso, photographs of work by Picasso taken by Roe Ethridge, and a selection of the original archival materials featured in the book.
Download the full press release in English (pdf) or French (pdf)
Picasso and Maya: Father and Daughter (New York: Gagosian, 2019)
Museum Exhibitions
Opening Today
Making Knowing
Craft in Art, 1950–2019
November 22, 2019–January 2021
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
whitney.org
Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019 foregrounds how visual artists have explored the materials, methods, and strategies of craft over the past seven decades. Some expand techniques with long histories, such as weaving, sewing, or pottery, while others experiment with clay, beads, and glass, among other mediums. Work by Richard Artschwager and Shio Kusaka is included.
Shio Kusaka, (line 5), 2010 © Shio Kusaka
Opening this Week
Adriana Varejão in
Innenleben
November 29, 2019–March 29, 2020
Haus der Kunst, Munich
hausderkunst.de
This show, whose title translates to Interiorities, explores the increasing externalization of the interior as we actively publish details of our private lives on social media and invite others to scrutinize, share, and rate them. The exhibition investigates how the artists in the show use the interior as a framework to find images for multifaceted identities. Work by Adriana Varejão is included.
Adriana Varejão, Ruína de Charque - Nova Capela (Nova Capela Jerked-Beef Ruin), 2003 (detail) © Adriana Varejão
Closing this Week
Y.Z. Kami in
The Spark Is You: Parasol unit in Venice
Through November 23, 2019
Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello, Venice
parasol-unit.org
In celebration of its fifteenth anniversary, London’s Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art presents an exhibition of works by nine contemporary Iranian artists in Venice. The Spark Is You has at its heart the need to develop mutual respect and understanding between different nations and cultures. The exhibiting artists, all of whom look beyond the ordinary, were selected for the affinity with openness, respect, and human interconnectedness presented in their practice. Work by Y.Z. Kami is included.
Y.Z. Kami, Chartres III, 2018 © Y.Z. Kami
Closing this Week
Douglas Gordon in
Hey Psycho!
Through November 24, 2019
Arsenale Institute for Politics of Representation, Venice
This exhibition looks at the work of two artists, Douglas Gordon and Florian Süssmayr, who share common backgrounds in film, music, and art, independent of national interests, in the historic context of Venice. Notably, Gordon’s film installation 24 Hour Psycho (1993) is viewable from the Riva dei Sette Martiri, between the Arsenale and Giardini, day and night. The show also includes new neon and sprayed texts and sculpture by Gordon. Pink neons in the windows, visible from afar, with the words “non-stop,” reflect on the uncontrollable nature of psychosis and obsession.
Douglas Gordon, Psycho Hitchhiker, 1993 © Douglas Gordon/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2019