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The Rachel Whiteread Catalogue Raisonné is announcing a call for works for the preparation of a catalogue of all of Rachel Whiteread’s sculptures to be published by Art Publishing Inc. The completed volume will document Whiteread’s sculpture practice with an entry for each work that includes descriptive information and a comprehensive provenance, exhibition history, and bibliography. Editor Ann Gallagher and assistant editor Kira Wainstein will work closely with the artist’s studio to prepare the catalogue raisonné, with the support of Gagosian, Luhring Augustine, and Galleria Lorcan O’Neill.

Current and past owners of sculptures by the artist are encouraged to contact the editorial team at info@rwcatalogueraisonne.com to submit work for potential inclusion.

Rachel Whiteread has partnered with Migrate Art, an organization that raises money for displaced and homeless communities around the world, to create House (2023), a limited-edition hand-finished archival pigment print. Proceeds from the sale of these prints will be donated to Refugee Community Kitchen, which supports homeless people in London, with each edition sold raising enough funds to provide eight hundred hot meals. The print is based on an original work that Whiteread created with colored pencils that Migrate Art salvaged from the wreckage of the Calais “Jungle,” a refugee camp in northern France that was demolished in 2016.

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Gagosian is pleased to announce its partnership with the Woodman Family Foundation to represent the work of Francesca Woodman (1958–1981). The Foundation, established by the artist’s parents, Betty Woodman (1930–2018) and George Woodman (1932–2017) during their lifetimes, has been active since 2020. Its extensive collection includes lifetime prints and artist’s books as well as Francesca Woodman’s archive of notebooks, journals, correspondence, and related materials, much previously unknown. Gagosian will present photographs by Woodman at Art Basel in June 2023 and is planning an exhibition dedicated to her work in New York in spring 2024.

The Roy Lichtenstein Foundation is donating 186 works of art and other materials by the late artist to five museums in anticipation of what would have been Roy Lichtenstein’s one-hundredth birthday in October 2023. The institutions receiving donations are the Albertina, Vienna; Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine; Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, which received the artist’s nearby studio building as a gift from his widow Dorothy Lichtenstein last year. The foundation will distribute prints, drawings, sculptures, paintings, and archival films among the five museums.

In this video Rachel Feinstein and Yvonne Owens, professor of art history and critical studies at the Victoria College of Art, Canada, discuss Feinstein’s practice as well as the artist’s new book Rachel Feinstein: Mirror, which documents the eponymous 2022 exhibition at Gagosian, Davies Street, London, and features an essay by Owens. Comprising paintings on mirror and a large stained-wood sculpture titled Metal Storm (2021), the exhibition was animated by Feinstein’s fascination with the human figure and historical and cultural narratives.

The Jewish Museum, New York, has commissioned Rachel Feinstein to create a new piece of Judaica for their collection. Inspired by two historical forms—medieval-style architectural Jewish marriage rings and tower-shaped ceremonial spice containers, both represented in the museum’s collection—Feinstein, in collaboration with Ippolita, created Marriage Ring (2023). This fantastical ring, rendered in sterling silver dipped in 18-karat gold, stands almost a foot tall, and takes the shape of a highly ornate castle.

Edmund de Waal has been selected to receive the Isamu Noguchi Award for his contribution as both a writer and artist. Established in 2014 and presented annually, the award perpetuates Noguchi’s legacy by acknowledging highly accomplished individuals who share his spirit of innovation, unbounded imagination, and uncompromising commitment to creativity. Honoring those whose work exhibits qualities of artistic excellence, the award also recognizes work that carries significant social consciousness and function. De Waal will receive the award during the annual benefit gala at the Noguchi Museum, New York, in September 2023.

Theaster Gates has been selected to receive the Isamu Noguchi Award for his contribution as an artist. Established in 2014 and presented annually, the award perpetuates Noguchi’s legacy by acknowledging highly accomplished individuals who share his spirit of innovation, unbounded imagination, and uncompromising commitment to creativity. Honoring those whose work exhibits qualities of artistic excellence, the award also recognizes work that carries significant social consciousness and function. Gates will receive the award during the annual benefit gala at the Noguchi Museum, New York, in September 2023.

The United States Postal Service has released Forever stamps featuring iconic artwork by Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997) in celebration of the centenary of the artist’s birth. The sheet of twenty stamps includes five different works from various series: Standing Explosion (Red) (1965), Modern Painting I (1966), Still Life with Crystal Bowl (1972), Still Life with Goldfish (1972), and Portrait of a Woman (1979).

Gagosian is pleased to announce the global representation of Cy Gavin. In his recent work, Gavin paints metaphorical interpretations of sites that have been shaped over time by human intervention and geological or cosmic phenomena. Composed with fluid, gestural brushstrokes in striking colors, they are at times monumental in scale. Following his debut solo exhibition at the gallery, which opened in February 2023 in New York, Gagosian will present an exhibition of new paintings by Gavin this fall in Rome. 

Gagosian is pleased to announce the global representation of Nan Goldin. Among the most consequential artists of her generation, Goldin has introduced new modes of image making that have transformed the role of photography in contemporary art. Emerging from the artist’s own life and relationships, her photographs and moving-image works are both deeply personal and profoundly influential, addressing essential themes of identity, love, sexuality, addiction, and mortality. Throughout her career Goldin has united art and activism, confronting the HIV/AIDS epidemic since the 1980s and more recently bringing international attention to the overdose crisis.

Gagosian is pleased to announce the global representation of Derrick Adams. The gallery’s debut exhibition of new paintings by Adams will be presented in Beverly Hills in September 2023.

Adams’s paintings, sculptures, collages, performances, videos, and public projects celebrate and expand the dialogue around contemporary Black life and culture through scenes of normalcy and perseverance. He has developed an iconography of joy, leisure, and the pursuit of happiness. Adams’s distinctive style synthesizes representational imagery with planar Cubist geometry to produce multifaceted figures and faces that address the richness of the Black experience.

The Los Angeles Philharmonic’s twentieth-anniversary season at the Walt Disney Concert Hall will honor Frank Gehry, who designed the iconic venue. Planned celebrations include a gala and performance in October, a collaborative staging of Wagner’s Das Rheingold in January, and additional exhibits and commissions to be announced.

Ewa Juszkiewicz has partnered with RxART, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to help children heal through the extraordinary power of visual art, to create Untitled (after Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun), 2021 (2023), with 100 percent of the proceeds funding RxART. Made in collaboration with Powerhouse Arts and Griffin Editions in New York, the limited-edition archival pigment print is based on an oil painting by Juszkiewicz that draws on the traditions of classical European portraiture with added touches of the surreal and grotesque. To inquire about purchasing an edition, email contact@rxart.net.

Red Study (2022), a painting by Louise Bonnet, was sold recently to Lauren Taschen, an advocate for women’s rights, generating around $100,000 to benefit Planned Parenthood Los Angeles.  The donation reflects Bonnet’s desire to spark public discussion of the discomfiting topic of abortion. “I think it’s important to make public statements . . . about basic human rights,” she says. “No one wants to have an abortion—it’s a very difficult thing to live through. Not to trust women to make that choice for themselves is oppression.”

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022), directed by award-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, is nominated for Best Documentary Feature Film at the 2023 Oscars. The film is an epic and emotional story about the life and career of artist and activist Nan Goldin, who helped produce the work, told through her slideshows and groundbreaking photography, intimate interviews, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold Purdue Pharma, owned by the Sackler family, accountable for the opioid crisis. The film premiered at  the 79th Venice International Film Festival in 2022, where it won the Golden Lion award.

Shut Up and Paint, a film directed by Titus Kaphar and Alex Mallis, is one of fifteen films—out of ninety-eight qualifiers—selected for the shortlist in the 2023 Oscars category of Documentary Short Film Shortlist, advancing to the nomination round. In the twenty-minute short, Kaphar looks to the medium of film in the face of an insatiable art market seeking to silence his activism. The nominations for the 95th Academy Awards will be announced on January 24, 2023.

Harold Ancart is collaborating with RxART, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to help children heal through the extraordinary power of visual art, on a project for the new Primary Children’s Hospital Miller Family Campus in Lehi, Utah. Anticipated to be completed in 2024, Ancart’s mural installation depicting a variety of fish swimming in the sky will be situated in a corridor at the heart of the hospital near the main lobby, directly in front of the education center, café, and pharmacy.

Ed Ruscha will be inducted into the California Hall of Fame for his service to the arts in a ceremony taking place on Tuesday, December 13, 2022, at which he will receive a medal from California Governor Gavin Newsom. Established in 2006 at the California Museum in Sacramento by former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver, the award honors legendary Californians who embody the state’s innovative spirit and have made their mark on history across a variety of fields, including the arts, education, business and labor, science, sports, philanthropy, and public service.

Opened in November 2022, Space Z is a long-term experimental project created by Zeng Fanzhi within his studio in Beijing. The space showcases artwork in a range of different media by Zeng as well as by other artists. Through the selection, placement, and examination of work in the space—which is open by appointment and presented online through WeChat and Instagram—Zeng seeks to explore new modes of creation, viewing, and thinking.

Urs Fischer is releasing UF, a new line of clothing and accessories, during Miami Art Week in the city’s Design District. An extension of the artist’s practice, the unique pieces—including T-shirts, upcycled garments, and domestic objects—are based on some of Fischer’s most recent works, such as the CHAOS #1–#501 series of digital sculptures.

First available for purchase through pop-up presentations, UF will debut at 100 Years, a group exhibition that features work by Fischer, presented by Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch at the Buick Building. Following Miami Art Week, the line will be available at Jeffrey Deitch on Grand Street in New York beginning December 8, 2022.

The Fondation Giacometti is creating the Musée & École Giacometti in the historic building of the former Invalides train station and the basement of the esplanade in Paris, due to open in 2026. Envisioned as a new type of institution, the site will include a museum showcasing works by Alberto Giacometti, multidisciplinary exhibition spaces, and an art school. The site will be dedicated to fostering dialogues between the public, artists, and different modes of creative expression.

On November 16, 2022, Larry Gagosian announced the formation of a Board of Directors at Gagosian that brings together leading figures from across industries and the global art community. Comprised of twelve external members and eight internal members, including Mr. Gagosian, the Board meets twice annually and provides strategic insight and guidance for the gallery. The Board was established in late 2021 and the first meeting was held last May.

Sir David Adjaye has been commissioned to create his first permanent public artwork, Asaase III (2023), which will debut during Counterpublic, a triennial exhibition that weaves contemporary art into the daily life of St. Louis, and then be donated to the Griot Museum of Black History. The second edition of Counterpublic, which was founded in 2019 by the Luminary, will run from April 15 to July 15, 2023. The exhibition will consider St. Louis’s complex histories, charged present, and many possible futures, following the footprint of Jefferson Avenue as it charts the pulses of the city from the southern riverfront through the Brickline Greenway at Market Street to St. Louis Avenue in North St. Louis.