Richard Serra: Running Arcs (For John Cage), 1992, West 21st Street, New York, September 12–December 20, 2025

Works Exhibited

Richard Serra Running Arcs (For John Cage), 1992. Weatherproof steel, 3 plates, overall: 13 feet 2 inches × 87 feet 6 inches × 36 feet 5 inches (4.3 × 26.7 × 11.1 m), plates: 2 inches (5 cm) thick © 2025 Estate of Richard Serra/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Maris Hutchinson — Richard Serra
*Running Arcs (For John Cage)*, 1992
Weatherproof steel, 3 plates, overall: 13 feet 2 inches × 87 feet 6 inches × 36 feet 5 inches (4.3 × 26.7 × 11.1 m), plates: 2 inches (5 cm) thick
© 2025 Estate of Richard Serra/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Maris Hutchinson

Richard Serra Running Arcs (For John Cage), 1992 (detail). Weatherproof steel, 3 plates, overall: 13 feet 2 inches × 87 feet 6 inches × 36 feet 5 inches (4.3 × 26.7 × 11.1 m), plates: 2 inches (5 cm) thick © 2025 Estate of Richard Serra/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Maris Hutchinson — Richard Serra
*Running Arcs (For John Cage)*, 1992 (detail)
Weatherproof steel, 3 plates, overall: 13 feet 2 inches × 87 feet 6 inches × 36 feet 5 inches (4.3 × 26.7 × 11.1 m), plates: 2 inches (5 cm) thick
© 2025 Estate of Richard Serra/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Maris Hutchinson

Thumbnail - Richard Serra Running Arcs (For John Cage), 1992. Weatherproof steel, 3 plates, overall: 13 feet 2 inches × 87 feet 6 inches × 36 feet 5 inches (4.3 × 26.7 × 11.1 m), plates: 2 inches (5 cm) thick © 2025 Estate of Richard Serra/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Maris Hutchinson

Thumbnail - Richard Serra Running Arcs (For John Cage), 1992 (detail). Weatherproof steel, 3 plates, overall: 13 feet 2 inches × 87 feet 6 inches × 36 feet 5 inches (4.3 × 26.7 × 11.1 m), plates: 2 inches (5 cm) thick © 2025 Estate of Richard Serra/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Maris Hutchinson

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Gagosian is pleased to announce the US exhibition debut of Running Arcs (For John Cage) (1992), a large-scale sculpture by Richard Serra (1938–2024). The work has been exhibited only once before, more than thirty years ago, opening on September 12, 1992, at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf, Germany. Running Arcs (For John Cage) will be on view at Gagosian’s 522 West 21st Street gallery, opening thirty-three years—to the date—after its initial presentation and remaining on display through December 20, 2025.

Running Arcs (For John Cage) is composed of three identical conical steel segments, inverted relative to each other, installed in a staggered formation. Each panel is approximately 52 feet long, 13 feet high, and 2 inches thick.

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From the Quarterly

Richard Serra: Steve Reich’s “Music for Pieces of Wood”

In this video, musical ensemble Sō Percussion performs Steve Reich’s “Music for Pieces of Wood” inside the exhibition Richard Serra: Running Arcs (For John Cage), 1992, at Gagosian, New York.

Richard Serra: Johann Sebastian Bach, performed by Alina Ibragimova

Violinist Alina Ibragimova performs Bach’s Sonata for Solo Violin No. 1 in G Major: Adagio (BWV 1001, c. 1720) from within Richard Serra’s sculpture Transmitter (2020) at Gagosian, Le Bourget. Organized by Bold Tendencies, a nonprofit organization that commissions artists to produce site-specific projects and present performances, in collaboration with Gagosian, this recorded performance took place on May 8, 2022 before a live concert of Olivier Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time, 1941).

Richard Serra: Johann Sebastian Bach, performed by Mario Brunello

Cellist Mario Brunello performs Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major: Prelude (BWV 1007, c. 1717–23) within Richard Serra’s sculpture Transmitter (2020) at Gagosian, Le Bourget. Organized by Bold Tendencies—a nonprofit that commissions artists to produce site-specific projects and present performances—in collaboration with Gagosian, this recorded performance took place on May 8, 2022, before a live concert of Olivier Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time, 1941).

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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.

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