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Friday, April 26, 2024, 10am
Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, New York

Join Gagosian for a tour of the exhibition Francesca Woodman at Gagosian, New York, led by Lissa McClure and Katarina Jerinic, executive director and collections curator, respectively, at the Woodman Family Foundation. The pair will guide visitors through the presentation of over fifty prints from approximately 1975 through 1980, in which Woodman situated herself and others within dilapidated interiors and ancient architecture to compose her tableaux. Using objects such as chairs and plinths along with architectural elements including doorways, walls, and windows, she staged contrasts with the performative presence of the figures, presenting the body itself as sculpture.

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Sunday, April 28, 2024, 2–3pm
Dia Chelsea, New York
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Join Stanley Whitney and curator Cathleen Chaffee in conversation to celebrate the artist’s new monograph, Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon, published in conjunction with his traveling retrospective, currently on view at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York, through May 26. The pair will discuss the breadth of Whitney’s practice since the early 1970s, his work in relation to his artistic community, and his influences—from the history of art and architecture to quilting, textiles, and jazz. The talk is presented by DelMonico Books as part of Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair 2024 and is free to attend.

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Monday, April 29, 2024, 7–9pm
Brooklyn Museum, New York
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In conjunction with the exhibition Hiroshige’s 100 Famous Views of Edo (feat. Takashi Murakami) at the Brooklyn Museum, Murakami and curator Joan Cummins will discuss the artist’s new series of fantastical paintings that respond to Utagawa Hiroshige’s 100 Famous Views of Edo (1856–58), now on view at the museum for the first time in twenty-four years. Cummins and Murakami will also reflect on Hiroshige’s contributions to global art history and his role as a witness to and chronicler of environmental and social change.

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May 14–June 22, 2024
Gagosian Shop, London

Nan Goldin is taking over the Gagosian Shop in London’s Burlington Arcade, offering visitors an opportunity to explore her practice in depth. The basement floor will be transformed into a reading room of books chosen by Goldin, with publications on artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Larry Clark, Andy Warhol, and David Wojnarowicz, and fiction, essays, and memoirs by writers including Toni Morrison, Darryl Pinckney, Lucy Sante, and Sarah Schulman. A wide selection of publications on Goldin are available on the ground floor, including both new and out-of-print exhibition catalogues, monographs, and artist’s books. Also on display are in-progress layouts from Heartbeat, a forthcoming nine-volume catalogue raisonné of Goldin’s photographs published by Steidl. Over the course of the takeover, different pages from this comprehensive publication project will be displayed, revealing Goldin’s notes and markups over the course of its development.

The Shop takeover accompanies an exhibition of Goldin’s early works in the gallery upstairs and Nan Goldin: Sisters, Saints, Sibyls, the second presentation in the Gagosian Open series of off-site exhibitions, on view at 83 Charing Cross Road from May 30 to June 23, 2024.

Thursday, April 25, 2024, 6:30–7:30pm
Cooper Union School of Art, New York
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Sarah Sze will be in conversation with writer Teju Cole as part of Public Art Fund Talks, a series organized in collaboration with the Cooper Union to connect contemporary artists to a broad public. The pair will discuss Sze’s ambitious site-specific sculpture Shorter Than the Day (2020), permanently installed at LaGuardia Airport, New York. Commissioned in a partnership between Public Art Fund and LaGuardia Gateway Partners, Sze’s work evokes the passage of time through an intricate constellation of photographs of the sky above New York City taken over the course of one day. Sze and Cole will also explore how both of their respective artistic practices capture nonlinear experiences of time and the urban environment. The event is free to attend.

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Art for a Safe and Healthy California is a benefit exhibition and auction presented by Jane Fonda, Gagosian, and Christie’s to support Campaign for a Safe and Healthy California. Artworks donated by artists including Charles Gaines, Frank Gehry, Alex Israel, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Catherine Opie, Christina Quarles, Ed Ruscha, Jonas Wood, among others, will be sold to help the coalition of voters campaigning to stop oil companies attempting to repeal Governor Gavin Newsom’s SB1137 on the November ballot. The bill provides safe setbacks from oil wells for homes, parks, schools, and playgrounds, as well as requirements to make already pumping wells safer.

The benefit launches on April 9 with a ticketed fundraiser in Beverly Hills hosted by Jane Fonda, Larry Gagosian, Aileen Getty, and Susan and Mark Buell, with cohosts Edythe Broad, Frank Gehry, Wendy and Eric Schmidt, Chrissy Teigen and John Legend, and Sean Penn. Highlighted artworks will be on view. A selection of works will be auctioned in the Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale during their marquee sale week in May, while another group of works will be presented for sale in an exhibition in summer 2024 at the Beverly Hills gallery.

Thursday, April 25, 2024, 6–8pm
Gagosian, rue de Ponthieu, Paris

To celebrate the publication of her new book, Into Nature, Setsuko will sign copies at Gagosian, Paris, among a special installation of her works. Into Nature commemorates Setsuko’s recent exhibition of the same name at Gagosian, Gstaad, featuring ceramic and bronze sculptures, paintings, and works on paper. In addition to plates, exhibition views, and archival photography, the publication features a foreword by the artist and a text by novelist and poet Shan Sa, who was formerly an assistant to Setsuko. Published by Gagosian, the book will be available for purchase at the event, which is free to attend.

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Titus Kaphar is the honoree of the 2024 Brooklyn Artists Ball, taking place on April 9 in New York. Kaphar—a Brooklyn Museum trustee and cofounder and president of the nonprofit arts hub NXTHVN—was selected for his innumerable contributions as both a trailblazing artist and a community-focused activist. The Artists Ball is the museum’s largest fundraiser, generating pivotal revenue in support of programming that spans special exhibitions and reimagined collection installations as well as educational programs for visitors of all ages.

Monday, April 8, 2024
Tribeca 360, New York
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Bomb magazine’s annual gala and benefit art auction will celebrate its forty-second anniversary in New York on April 8, and honor art luminaries including Cecilia Alemani and Deana Lawson. The auction benefits Bomb, a nonprofit that has been publishing conversations between artists from all disciplines since 1981. This year’s auction will be hosted on Artsy through April 9 and features work by eleven artists including Ed Ruscha.

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Tuesday, April 9, 2024, 2:05–3:15pm
The Spiral, New York
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Moderated by Artnews editor in chief Sarah Douglas, this panel discussion brings together artist Alvaro Barrington, curator and philanthropy advisor Kathy Halbreich, artist Jamian Juliano-Villani, and art advisory firm cofounder Allan Schwartzman for a conversation centering on the paradigm shift in power dynamics in favor of artists. It is part of Talking Galleries, a two-day conference in New York on April 8 and 9 that addresses a wide range of topics, including how galleries and public institutions are faring in a changing world, the emergence of artificial intelligence, sustainability, and the forces defining the art market today. One- and two-day tickets are available.

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April 5–6, 2024
Museum of Modern Art and Film at Lincoln Center, New York
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Exhibiting Forgiveness (2023), a film written, directed, and produced by Titus Kaphar, has been selected for New Directors/New Films 2024, a festival presented by Film at Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art that showcases emerging directors working at the vanguard of cinema. 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. In its New York premiere, Exhibiting Forgiveness will be screened on April 5 and 6, followed by question-and-answer sessions with Kaphar and Holland.

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Friday, April 19, 2024, 3pm
Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Venice
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Join Gagosian and Museo di Palazzo Grimani for a conversation between Rick Lowe; Dieter Roelstraete, curator of the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society at the University of Chicago; and Abigail Winograd, commissioner and curator of the United States Pavilion at the 60th Biennale di Venezia. The talk will take place inside The Arch within the Arc, featuring new paintings by Lowe inspired by the Palazzo’s historic chambers, the urban dynamics of Venice, and the arc as a visual motif. The group will discuss the exhibition in the context of Lowe’s overall practice, as well as Gagosian’s recently published monograph on the artist, which was coedited by Roelstraete and features essays by both curators. The event is free with museum admission; reservations are recommended. 

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Wednesday, April 10, 2024, 6:30pm
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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Join the Whitney Museum of American Art for a conversation inspired by the exhibition Harold Cohen: AARON, which traces the evolution of the earliest artificial intelligence (AI) program for art making, on view at the museum through May 19. Artists Beth Coleman, Bennett Miller, Mimi Ọnụọha, and David Salle—who all use AI in their respective practices—will present short presentations on their working methods and tools, and the Whitney’s curator of digital art, Christine Paul, will lead a moderated discussion on how AI can enable new forms of creativity and artistic agency while also addressing its corporate structures and critical blind spots. The in-person event can also be attended online.

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March 27–30, 2024
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
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Alex Israel’s interactive video installation REMEMBR (2023) will be on view for the first time in Asia at Art Basel Hong Kong 2024. To realize REMEMBR, the artist worked closely with BMW to develop AI technology that collects, filters, and composes content from a smartphone’s camera roll. The resulting montage is choreographed to music and displayed across seven custom-designed screens, each taking the shape of Israel’s iconic profile, arranged around an all-electric BMW i7 sedan. The immersive installation invites visitors to delve into the artist’s hyper-memories and, equally, share their own. Israel comments, “I experience driving as a very inspiring process: it brings back countless memories, sparks my imagination, and helps me to generate new memories and new ideas.” The work will make its European debut in June 2024 at Gagosian, London.

Wednesday, April 17, 2024, 6:30pm
Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, New York

Join Gagosian for a conversation inside the exhibition Francesca Woodman at Gagosian, New York, between Brooke Holmes, professor of Classics at Princeton University, and Lissa McClure and Katarina Jerinic, executive director and collections curator, respectively, at the Woodman Family Foundation. The trio will discuss Woodman’s preoccupation with classical themes and archetypes, her exploration of the body as sculpture, and her development of photography’s capacity to invest representation with allegory and metaphor. The exhibition features more than fifty lifetime prints—many of which have not been previously exhibited—including Blueprint for a Temple (II) (1980), the largest work she accomplished.

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Tuesday, April 2, 2024, 6:30pm
Gagosian, Beverly Hills

Join Gagosian for a conversation between filmmaker Tamra Davis and photographer Brian Williams inside Jean-Michel Basquiat: Made on Market Street at the Beverly Hills gallery. The talk is moderated by Fred Hoffman, who curated the exhibition with Larry Gagosian and is the author of The Art of Jean-Michel Basquiat. The first exhibition to focus exclusively on the works Basquiat produced in Los Angeles, Made on Market Street reflects on this consequential period in his career. During his time in LA, Davis drove the artist, who never learned to drive, around the city and filmed him for what would become her acclaimed documentary Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child (2010). Williams, who was Basquiat’s former studio assistant, captured the artist at work during these years and will share never-before-seen archival photographs and footage during the talk.

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Thursday, March 21, 2024, 6:30–8pm
New York Academy of Art
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Join the New York Academy of Art for a conversation between Neil Jenney and author and critic Linda Yablonsky. The pair will discuss how the artist has challenged models of taste and subject matter in the three key phases of his career—Bad Paintings (1969–70), Good Paintings (1971–2015), and New Good Paintings (2015–)—as well as his commitment to exploring, and ultimately transcending, realism as both style and philosophy. Jenney will be honored at the Tribeca Ball 2024 on April 1.

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Monday, March 18, 2024, 6:30pm
Hatchards, Piccadilly, London
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Join Hatchards to celebrate Francesca Woodman: The Artist’s Books, published in association with the Woodman Family Foundation. All eight of Woodman’s unique artist’s books are reproduced for the first time in one comprehensive volume, including two that have never before been seen. Writer and editor Claire Marie Healy; Katarina Jerinic, collections curator at the Woodman Family Foundation; and Magdalene Keaney, curator of Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron: Portraits to Dream In at the National Portrait Gallery, London, will consider how Woodman’s transformation of found volumes demonstrates a sophisticated relationship to narrative and sequence and offers a new understanding of the scope of her engagement with the book form. The trio will also discuss the images used to create the artist’s books that are on view at Gagosian, Burlington Arcade, London, from March 18 to April 6, 2024. Published by MACK, the book will be available for purchase at the event.

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024, 6pm
Gagosian, 541 West 24th Street, New York

Join Gagosian for a walkthrough of Jamian Juliano-Villani: It at Gagosian, New York, with the artist and her friend and fellow painter Alvaro Barrington. The pair—both of whom draw from contemporary culture and art history in their practices—will guide visitors through the mirage of distorted iconography found in Juliano-Villani’s new paintings, in which the artist pursues strategies of appropriation and reference.

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Friday, March 15, 2024, 6pm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Join experts close to Howard Hodgkin, including his partner of thirty-three years, Antony Peattie, for a personal look at the artist’s lifetime engagement with India and Indian painting. Over the course of sixty years, Hodgkin formed a collection of Indian paintings and drawings that is recognized as one of the finest of its kind. This lecture brings together Peattie along with Glenn Lowry, director of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Met curators John Guy and Navina Haidar to discuss Hodgkin’s artistic practice and his collection. It is organized as part of the Annual Distinguished Lecture on the Arts of South and Southeast Asia series in conjunction with the exhibition Indian Skies: The Howard Hodgkin Collection of Indian Court Painting, on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, through June 9.

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Tuesday, March 26, 2024, 6:30pm
Gagosian, 541 West 24th Street, New York

Join Gagosian for a conversation between Jamian Juliano-Villani and Massimiliano Gioni, artistic director of the New Museum, New York, inside the artist’s exhibition It, at Gagosian, New York. The pair will discuss Juliano-Villani’s painterly approach, which draws on a myriad of source material and artistic predecessors such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Ashley Bickerton, as well as her first major publication, Jamian Juliano-Villani: Selected Works, published by Gagosian this year. Designed by Philipp Hubert, the fully illustrated catalogue surveys paintings made from 2013 to 2024, including works from the exhibition, and features an introduction by Hans Ulrich Obrist and an essay by Domenick Ammirati. After the talk, the artist will sign copies of the book, which will be available for purchase.

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Tuesday, March 12, 2024, 7:15pm
Los Angeles Times Media Center, Pasadena, California
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Albert Oehlen and fellow artist Laura Owens will be guest speakers at the Los Angeles Times Media Center as part of the ArtCenter College of Design Graduate Art MFA Spring 2024 Lecture Series. The pair will discuss Vincent van Gogh, whom they both address in their respective bodies of work. Oehlen will specifically talk about his recent film van G (2023), which recounts van Gogh’s relationship with his models, whom he struggled to recruit and pay. The event is free and open to the public.

March 7–10, 2024
Luna Luna, Los Angeles
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Carsten Höller’s The Double Club Los Angeles transforms a vast warehouse in the heart of the Los Angeles Arts District, used by the Luna Luna team to unpack and reconstruct the rides on display in its restaging of the art amusement park, into a fanciful landscape. Now in its third incarnation, Höller’s installation begins with a single floor area and applies the mathematical rule of division by halving the footprint, while doubling it in height, to create nine unique spaces that deconstruct the carnival experience. The four-day event is presented by Prada Mode, in partnership with Luna Luna, and includes musical programming curated by the rapper Drake, who played a major role in bringing Luna Luna to LA, and Höller, who visited the park during its 1987 debut in Hamburg, Germany. The event is free and open to the public on March 9–10 with admission to Luna Luna.

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Tuesday, March 12, 2024, 6:30pm
New York Studio School
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Nathaniel Mary Quinn will be a guest speaker at the New York Studio School as part of their Evening Lecture Series, a platform for diverse perspectives and spirited conversations among artists, scholars, students, and the general public. The in-person and online event is free to attend and will include a question-and-answer session.

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