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Artist Spotlight
One Artist, One Work, One Week
Launching April 8, 2020
As arts institutions worldwide temporarily close their doors to support efforts to contain the covid-19 pandemic, exhibitions everywhere are being canceled, postponed, or curtailed. For artists who have invested time, energy, and resources preparing shows now directly affected by the health crisis, Gagosian is launching Artist Spotlight—a new, multifaceted program that invites individual artists to use the gallery’s online channels as an open platform, to present their work to the world and continue generating support for their studios.
Starting on April 8, Gagosian will highlight a single artist each week, unveiling a rich weave of editorial features every Wednesday—including videos, interviews, essays, artists’ playlists, and more—providing insights into artistic practice and process, inspirations and influences. Each Friday at 6am edt, the gallery will present a single artwork exclusively on this page, making it available with pricing information for forty-eight hours only.
The featured artists include Sarah Sze, Stanley Whitney, Jennifer Guidi, Roe Ethridge, Titus Kaphar, Katharina Grosse, Theaster Gates, Dan Colen, Urs Fischer, Mark Grotjahn, Mary Weatherford, Rudolf Polanszky, Damien Hirst, and Jenny Saville.
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Clockwise from top left: Sarah Sze, photo: courtesy MacArthur Foundation; Urs Fischer, photo: Chad Moore; Jennifer Guidi, photo: Brica Wilcox; Titus Kaphar, photo: John Lucas; and Jenny Saville, photo: Pal Hansen/Getty Images
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Artist Spotlight: Anselm Kiefer
La Ribaute Private Tour and Lunch
Over the course of three decades, Anselm Kiefer has transformed La Ribaute—a 40-hectare site located in the south of France near Barjac, northwest of Avignon—into a uniquely immersive artistic environment.
Enter for a chance to join an exclusive tour of the grounds on Saturday, September 10, 2022, for you and a guest. The visit includes a guided walk-through led by Gagosian director Georges Armaos, featuring a talk with Kiefer studio director Waltraud Forelli, and a private lunch amid the artist’s monumental installations.
The giveaway begins on June 22 at 6am EDT and ends on June 29 at 6am EDT as part of Artist Spotlight: Anselm Kiefer. For terms and conditions, click here.
Anselm Kiefer, Die Frauen der Antike, 1999–2002, installation view, La Ribaute, Barjac, France © Anselm Kiefer. Photo: Charles Duprat
Online Exclusive
Artist Spotlight
Ed Ruscha to kick off new season of Gagosian’s online series
Launching September 16, 2020
Gagosian is unveiling a new vision for the Artist Spotlight series that will operate independently of our exhibition program. This will cement the platform’s status as a vibrant aspect of the gallery’s programming that allows artists to operate imaginatively beyond the physical exhibition format.
The second season of Artist Spotlight—a series that focuses on an individual artist for one week each month—premieres on September 16, 2020, with a new project by legendary artist Ed Ruscha. A selection of works by preeminent artists—including John Currin, Takashi Murakami, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, and Rachel Whiteread—will debut this fall. For updates, please contact the gallery at collecting@gagosian.com.
Ed Ruscha. Photo: Sten Rosenlund
Book Fair
NY Art Book Fair 2024
April 25–28, 2024, booth B5
548 West 22nd Street, New York
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Gagosian is celebrating the thirtieth issue of Gagosian Quarterly at Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair 2024. The Summer 2024 issue—on newsstands May 3—will debut, with Roy Lichtenstein on the magazine’s newly redesigned cover and a music-themed stand-alone supplement, among other editorial features. For the occasion, copies of the past four issues of the magazine will be free with any purchase, and all Gagosian publications on display will be available for $10 each, including exhibition catalogues, monographs, and artist’s books.
Gagosian publications. Photo: Mauricio Zelaya
Francesca Woodman
Ahead of the first exhibition of Francesca Woodman’s photographs at Gagosian, director Putri Tan speaks with historian and curator Corey Keller about new insights into the artist’s work. The two unravel themes of the body, space, architecture, and ambiguity.
Now available
Gagosian Quarterly Spring 2024
The Spring 2024 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available with a fresh cover design featuring Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Lead Plate with Hole (1984).
Sofia Coppola: Archive
MACK recently published Sofia Coppola: Archive 1999–2023, the first publication to chronicle Coppola’s entire body of work in cinema. Comprised of the filmmaker’s personal photographs, developmental materials, drafted and annotated scripts, collages, and unseen behind-the-scenes photography from all of her films, the monograph offers readers an intimate look into the process behind these films.
Adaptability
Adam Dalva looks at recent films born from short stories by the Japanese writer Haruki Murakami and asks, What makes a great adaptation? He considers how the beloved surrealist’s prose particularly lends itself to cinematic interpretation.
Not Running, Just Going
Robert M. Rubin’s Vanishing Point Forever (RideWithBob/Film Desk Books, 2024) explores the production, reception, and lasting influence of Richard Sarafian’s 1971 film. In this excerpt, Rubin discusses the pseudonymous screenwriter Guillermo Cain (Guillermo Cabrera Infante), the famous Kowalski car, and how a nude hippie biker chick became the Lady Godiva of the internal combustion engine.
On Frederick Wiseman
Carlos Valladares writes on the life and work of the legendary American filmmaker and documentarian.
You Don’t Buy Poetry at the Airport: John Klacsmann and Raymond Foye
Since 2012, John Klacsmann has held the role of archivist at Anthology Film Archives, where he oversees the preservation and restoration of experimental films. Here he speaks with Raymond Foye about the technical necessities, the threats to the craft, and the soul of analogue film.
Whit Stillman
In celebration of the monograph Whit Stillman: Not So Long Ago (Fireflies Press, 2023), Carlos Valladares chats with the filmmaker about his early life and influences.
Lisa Lyon
Fiona Duncan pays homage to the unprecedented, and underappreciated, life and work of Lisa Lyon.
Jamian Juliano-Villani and Jordan Wolfson
Ahead of her forthcoming exhibition in New York, Jamian Juliano-Villani speaks with Jordan Wolfson about her approach to painting and what she has learned from running her own gallery, O’Flaherty’s.
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.
Game Changer: Alexey Brodovitch
Gerry Badger reflects on the persistent influence of the graphic designer and photographer Alexey Brodovitch, the subject of an upcoming exhibition at the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia.