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Piero Golia, The Best Is Yet to Come, 2020 © Piero Golia

Auction

Printed Matter
Spring Benefit Auction

May 24–June 8, 2023

This online benefit auction for Printed Matter features over sixty donated artworks—some of which were created especially for the fundraiser—by contemporary artists, including Richard ArtschwagerPiero GoliaAdam McEwenRichard PrinceEd RuschaTaryn Simon, and Jonas Wood. Proceeds from the auction, which is hosted by Artsy, will support the nonprofit organization’s mission to further the distribution, understanding, and appreciation of artist’s books and related publications.

Piero Golia, The Best Is Yet to Come, 2020 © Piero Golia

Adam McEwen signing copies of his book Sidewalks at the Gagosian Shop, New York, 2022

Book Signing

Adam McEwen
Sidewalks

Saturday, October 15, 2022, 5pm
548 West 22nd Street, New York
printedmatterartbookfairs.org

Adam McEwen will sign copies of his new book, Sidewalks, at Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair in New York. Designed in close collaboration with the artist, the limited-run publication presents fifty-one inkjet-on-sponge paintings alongside the ambient poetry of Tan Lin, written in response to the works. Photographs of city sidewalks—some pristine, others strewed with cracks, manholes, and once-chewed gum—are printed on vividly colored cellulose sponge and oriented vertically, giving a sense of perspective and landscape but also of disorientation and abstraction. Published by Zolo Press, the book will be available for purchase at the event.

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Adam McEwen signing copies of his book Sidewalks at the Gagosian Shop, New York, 2022

Walton Ford giving a talk at his exhibition at Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, New York, 2022. Artwork © Walton Ford. Photo: Gabriella Chu

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Bomb Magazine
40th Anniversary Benefit Art Auction

Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Capitale, New York
bombmagazine.com

Bomb magazine’s annual gala and benefit art auction will celebrate its fortieth anniversary in New York on April 13, where art luminaries including Walton Ford and Linda Goode Bryant will be honored. The auction benefits Bomb, a nonprofit that has been publishing conversations between artists of all disciplines since 1981. This year’s auction features work by over thirty artists including Walton Ford, Vera Lutter, and Mary Weatherford. To attend the event, purchase tickets at shop.bombmagazine.org.

Walton Ford giving a talk at his exhibition at Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, New York, 2022. Artwork © Walton Ford. Photo: Gabriella Chu

Ed Ruscha, The Future, 1999 © Ed Ruscha. Photo: Jeff McLane

Exhibition

The Future

November 30, 2020–January 31, 2021
gagosian-deitch.com

Gagosian is pleased to announce The Future, the sixth in a series of annual thematic exhibitions presented by Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch during Art Basel Miami Beach. Previously staged at the historic Moore Building in the Miami Design District, this year the collaborative project will be hosted on a new stand-alone website.

Ed Ruscha, The Future, 1999 © Ed Ruscha. Photo: Jeff McLane

Photo: Aubrey Mayer

In Conversation

Adam McEwen
Thyrza Nichols Goodeve

Monday, June 22, 2020, 1pm EDT

Adam McEwen will speak with writer Thyrza Nichols Goodeve as part of the Brooklyn Rail’s Daily Social Environment series. The pair will discuss McEwen’s practice within the context of art-making today, including his film Escape from New York (2014) and fictional obituaries of living people. To register for the online event, visit brooklynrail.org.

Escape from New York, which captures the monotonous, almost hypnotic experience of speeding outbound through the four major tunnels in the island of Manhattan, is currently on view through the windows of Gagosian, Park & 75, New York. 

Photo: Aubrey Mayer

Adam McEwen, Escape from New York, 2014 (still from “Battery Tunnel”) © Adam McEwen

Exhibition

Broadcast
Alternate Meanings in Film and Video

You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind.
—Timothy Leary

Gagosian is pleased to present Broadcast: Alternate Meanings in Film and Video, an online exhibition of artists’ films and videos viewable exclusively on gagosian.com. The exhibition will be organized into a series of “chapters,” each lasting two weeks. The first chapter begins on Tuesday, May 19, 2020.

Broadcast: Alternate Meanings in Film and Video employs the innate immediacy of time-based art to spark reflection on the here and now, taking the words of famed psychologist and countercultural icon Timothy Leary as its starting point. 

Adam McEwen, Escape from New York, 2014 (still from “Battery Tunnel”) © Adam McEwen

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Announcements

Still from “New Social Environments: Adam McEwen and Thyrza Nichols Goodeve”

Video

Adam McEwen
Thyrza Nichols Goodeve

In this episode of the Brooklyn Rail’s New Social Environment online conversation series, Adam McEwen joins host and Rail editor-at-large Thyrza Nichols Goodeve to discuss the connection between writing obituaries for the Daily Telegraph and his practice centered on “a space that conflates a beleaguered present with the afterlife of a potent and contentious moment in art history.” The conversation is closed by poet Chris Martin.

Still from “New Social Environments: Adam McEwen and Thyrza Nichols Goodeve”

Museum Exhibitions

Rick Lowe, Untitled, 2021, installation view, Ruby City, San Antonio © Rick Lowe Studio. Photo: Ansen Seale

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Tangible/Nothing

September 8, 2022–July 30, 2023
Ruby City, San Antonio
www.rubycity.org

Tangible/Nothing presents a new installation from Ruby City’s permanent collection galleries and features approximately forty works by national and international artists, including those with ties to San Antonio and to Texas. The exhibition explores how the invisible or the seemingly mundane can reveal greater meaning, and it aims to tap into our collective experience of absence and presence over the past two years, when the physical separation from family and friends necessitated finding all manner of ways to connect with them in absentia. Work by Rick Lowe and Adam McEwen is included.

Rick Lowe, Untitled, 2021, installation view, Ruby City, San Antonio © Rick Lowe Studio. Photo: Ansen Seale

Installation view, Third Dimension: Works from the Brant Foundation, Brant Foundation, New York, November 13, 2019–September 3, 2020. Artwork, front to back: © Urs Fischer, © Dan Flavin

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Third Dimension
Works from the Brant Foundation

November 13, 2019–September 3, 2020
Brant Foundation, New York
brantfoundation.org

Bringing together more than twenty artists integral to the Brant Foundation’s collection, this exhibition offers a glimpse into the multifaceted practices of artists whose work Peter M. Brant has collected over the past fifty years. Work by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Urs Fischer, Mike Kelley, Adam McEwen, Richard Prince, Andy Warhol, and Franz West is included.

Installation view, Third Dimension: Works from the Brant Foundation, Brant Foundation, New York, November 13, 2019–September 3, 2020. Artwork, front to back: © Urs Fischer, © Dan Flavin

Urs Fischer, Untitled, 2015. Photo by Mats Nordman

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The Transported Man

April 29–October 22, 2017
Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing
broadmuseum.msu.edu

The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University is pleased to announce its debut exhibition curated by director Marc-Olivier Wahler. The Transported Man spans the entire museum and features more than fifty renowned and emerging artists whose work relies on the notion of belief. Work by Walter De Maria, Urs Fischer, and Adam McEwen is included.

Urs Fischer, Untitled, 2015. Photo by Mats Nordman

Sterling Ruby, 99/MK, 2017. Photo by Robert Wedemeyer

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99 Cents or Less

May 19–August 6, 2017
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
mocadetroit.org

A major group exhibition of ninety-nine artists based in the United States addresses Detroit’s ongoing economic crisis and its 2013 bankruptcy. Four years after a federal judge approved Detroit’s bankruptcy-exit plan, the city’s financial present and future are still in flux. This exhibition is a reflection on the realities of a city that was once one of the country’s wealthiest and most diverse. Work by Piero Golia, Alex Israel, Adam McEwen, Josephine Meckseper, and Sterling Ruby is included.

Sterling Ruby, 99/MK, 2017. Photo by Robert Wedemeyer

Photo by Tony Prikryl

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Adam McEwen
I Think I’m in Love

January 13–June 4, 2017
Aspen Art Museum, Colorado
www.aspenartmuseum.org

Adam McEwen is known for works that engage viewers with a dark yet poignant sense of humor. His recent sculptural works include a life-size coffin-carrier fabricated from solid graphite and deployed air bags cast in concrete. This exhibition marks the artist’s first solo museum show in the United States. He was the Aspen Art Museum’s 2016–17 Distinguished Artist in Residence.

Photo by Tony Prikryl

Installation view, That Was Then, This Is Now, MoMA PS1, New York, June 22–October 5, 2008. Artwork, front: © Spencer Sweeney; back, left to right: © Jasper Johns/VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; © The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation; © The Estate of Lovett/Codagnone; © Peter Hendrick; © Barbara Kruger. Photo: Matthew Septimus, courtesy MoMA PS1

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That Was Then, This Is Now

June 22–October 5, 2008
MoMA PS1, New York
www.moma.org

Inspired by the artistic and sociopolitical climate of the late 1960s, this group exhibition features work by artists united by the desire to mobilize art as a means of change. Focusing on three iconographic themes—flags, weapons, and dreams—That Was Then, This Is Now places these representations as central to artists’ collective aspiration toward progress. Work by Chris Burden, Adam McEwen, Spencer Sweeney, and Andy Warhol is included.

Installation view, That Was Then, This Is Now, MoMA PS1, New York, June 22–October 5, 2008. Artwork, front: © Spencer Sweeney; back, left to right: © Jasper Johns/VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; © The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation; © The Estate of Lovett/Codagnone; © Peter Hendrick; © Barbara Kruger. Photo: Matthew Septimus, courtesy MoMA PS1

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