United in Solidarity
As witnesses to the events and protests unfolding across America, we stand on the side of social justice.
Among the many organizations raising awareness and providing relief across the nation at this time, we have pledged our support to those listed below. We encourage our followers to consider doing the same.
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation
Black Lives Matter
National Bail Out
As conscious members of the global arts community, we must continue working to educate ourselves about the legacy of racial injustice and to collectively seek and remedy it in our thoughts and actions within the unified space of art.
We look to living artists whose voices call for change—as artists throughout history have underscored and protested inequities—and who inspire us to move towards a positive future, together.
#BlackLivesMatter
Related News
Announcement
Exhibiting Forgiveness
Acquired by Roadside Attractions
Exhibiting Forgiveness (2023), a film written, directed, and produced by Titus Kaphar, which premiered in January 2024 at the Sundance Film Festival, has been acquired by the film distribution company Roadside Attractions. Exploring family, generational healing, and the power of forgiveness, the motion picture follows a Black artist (André Holland) attempting to overcome the trauma of his past through painting; he is on the path to success when he is derailed by an unexpected visit from his estranged father. The film will open in theaters nationwide in Fall 2024.
Still from Exhibiting Forgiveness (2023), directed by Titus Kaphar
Support
Ed Ruscha × Avant Arte
Limited-Edition Print for LACMA
Ed Ruscha has partnered with Avant Arte, an online art marketplace, to create a limited-edition print of his painting Actual Size (1962) on the occasion of ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN, a major retrospective of his work at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. A portion of proceeds from sales will benefit the museum’s future. The print will be available for purchase online at Avant Arte for forty-eight hours beginning at 1pm ET on Thursday, April 11, 2024. The edition size will be determined by the number of orders placed within the timed-release period. Each print is individually numbered and authenticated with a bespoke artist’s stamp.
Ed Ruscha, Actual Size, 2024 © Ed Ruscha
Honor
Neil Jenney
Tribeca Ball 2024
Neil Jenney is the honoree of the Tribeca Ball 2024, taking place on April 1 in New York. During the annual gala, the five floors of the New York Academy of Art are open for guests to explore while students offer a firsthand look at their creative processes. Proceeds from the event support the nonprofit school, which was founded by artists in 1982, and its mission to empower a new generation of artists, and will be used to establish the Neil Jenney Artist Scholarship Fund.
Neil Jenney with a portrait of himself by Joseph McNamara at Gagosian, 980 Madison Avenue, New York, 2013. Artwork © Joseph McNamara. Photo: Robert Wright/The New York Times/Redux
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.
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).
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.
Touch of Evil
Andrew Russeth situates Jamian Juliano-Villani’s daring paintings within her myriad activities shaking up the art world.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Outsider Artist
David Frankel considers the life and work of Jeff Perrone, an artist who rejected every standard of success, and reflects on what defines an existence devoted to art.
Goetheanum: Rudolf Steiner and Contemporary Art
Author and artist Ross Simonini reports on a recent trip to the world center of the anthroposophical movement, the Goetheanum in Switzerland, exploring the influence of the movement’s founder and building’s designer Rudolf Steiner on twentieth-century artists.
Duane Hanson: To Shock Ourselves
On the occasion of an exhibition at Fondation Beyeler, novelist Rachel Cusk considers the ethical and aesthetic arrangements that Duane Hanson’s sculpture initiates within the viewer.