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Wednesday, August 9, 2023, 7:30pm
Grand LA, Los Angeles
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Larry Gagosian will discuss his experiences with Jean-Michel Basquiat in Los Angeles in the early 1980s with Tamra Davis, Fred Hoffman, and Basquiat’s sisters Lisane Basquiat and Jeanine Heriveaux in a panel conversation organized in conjunction with the exhibition Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure© at the Grand LA. All speakers had a meaningful relationship with the artist between 1982 and 1984. Gagosian presented two solo exhibitions by the artist at his gallery and allowed Basquiat to stay frequently at his house in Venice Beach. Hoffmann found a studio space for Basquiat in Venice and created a suite of prints with him. Davis drove the artist, who never learned to drive, around Los Angeles and filmed him for what would become her acclaimed documentary Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child (2010).

August 25–27, 2023
Basel
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Kunsttage Basel is a citywide program of art events at more than sixty museums, galleries, and other spaces. The exhibition Christo: Selected Works, featuring sculptures and works on paper by the artist, will be on view at Gagosian, Basel, with extended hours throughout the weekend. The presentation marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s last project in the city in 1998, when they wrapped 178 trees around the Fondation Beyeler in 55,000 square meters of woven polyester fabric.

Friday, August 25, 12–8pm
Saturday, August 26, 10am–6pm
Sunday, August 27, 10am–6pm

August 4–November 5, 2023
Various locations in Belém, Brazil
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The inaugural Bienal das Amazônias brings contemporary art to the unique surroundings of Belém, in the northern state of Pará in Brazil. It aims to conceive artistic, educational, and socio-environmental actions and develop Pan-Amazonian audiences. Seeking to reflect how art is made in the region without resorting to stereotypes, the biennial includes work by more than 120 artists and collectives from eight countries surrounding the Amazon. Work by Adriana Varejão is included.

September 7–10, 2023
Various locations in L’Aquila, Italy
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Panorama L’Aquila, curated by Cristiana Perrella, brings together works by more than sixty-two international artists presented by different galleries whose focuses range from the fourteenth century to contemporary. The exhibition takes place in twenty venues across L’Aquila—the provincial capital of the Abruzzo region, known for its green national parks and towns located on dramatic cliff faces—including in historical buildings, palaces, courtyards, and public spaces, as well as museums and other institutions. This is the third in a series of Panorama exhibitions organized by ITALICS, a consortium of art galleries active in Italy cofounded by Lorenzo Fiaschi and Pepi Marchetti Franchi that work together, both on- and offline, to highlight Italy’s extraordinary cultural and artistic heritage. Work by Tatiana Trouvé is included, exhibited in the Palazzo Rivera.

Opening reception: Thursday, August 3, 2023, 5–7pm
August 3–September 2, 2023
Burlington Arcade, London

Throughout the end of summer, the Gagosian Shop, London, is presenting a special display of Gagosian publications to celebrate the release of the gallery’s six-hundredth title. To mark the occasion, six hundred books from the display are available for £10 each, including catalogues on British artists Edmund de Waal, Damien Hirst, Jenny Saville, and Rachel Whiteread, among others. On Thursday, August 3, the Shop will host an opening reception with drinks to kick off the presentation. The event is free to attend.

July 27–29, 2023
Various locations in Los Angeles
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Gagosian is participating in the third annual Gallery Weekend Los Angeles with two exhibitions. Honor Titus: Advantage In, on view at Gagosian, Beverly Hills, and Urs Fischer: Denominator, on view across the street at 433 North Camden Drive, will be open until 8pm on Thursday, July 27. The initiative is organized by Gallery Association Los Angeles and galleryplatform.la and includes more than one hundred of the city’s leading contemporary art galleries and museums.

Sunday, July 23, 2023, 2–9pm
Brain Dead Studios, Los Angeles
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In collaboration with Kaleidoscope, Jim Shaw has curated a film program titled Monsters to celebrate his cover story in the spring/summer 2023 issue of the magazine. Held at Brain Dead Studios—an experiential space hosted in a former silent movie theater—this spine-chilling program stems directly from the artist’s childhood memories, featuring three horror movies that embrace the surreal, the sci-fi, and the supernatural. To kick off the screenings, Shaw will be in conversation with Gagosian director Jessica Beck to discuss his recent paintings, which reanimate mythological themes through incidents from political history and popular entertainment. The works were shown at Gagosian, Beverly Hills, and will be documented in an exhibition catalogue featuring an essay by Beck to be published in August 2023. The event is free to attend.

2pm: Jim Shaw in conversation with Jessica Beck
3pm: The Electronic Monster (1958), directed by Montgomery Tully
5pm: The Mask (1961), directed by Julian Roffman
7pm: 13 Ghosts (1960), directed by William Castle

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July 25–30, 2023, 12–6pm
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
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To mark the tenth anniversary of Walter De Maria’s death, the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich will play Ocean Music (1968), a sound piece in which the artist combined his own recordings of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans with his drum improvisation. The recording will play in the historic Türkentor (Turkish Gate) building, which houses De Maria’s sculpture Large Red Sphere (2002). On Thursday, July 27, the musical presentation will continue until 8pm. The event is free to attend.

July 20–August 18, 2023
Phillips, London
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This exhibition features oil-on-canvas paintings from three series by Damien Hirst—Coast Paintings, Sea Paintings, and Seascapes—many of which have never before been seen publicly. The works are inspired by the artist’s pastime of walking on the beach and watching the sea, most recently in the United Kingdom during the winter, and draw influence from Abstract Expressionism, specifically Robert Motherwell’s Beside the Sea paintings from the 1960s. Where the Land Meets the Sea coincides with a drop on the HENI Primary digital platform. For more information on the works, please contact the gallery at inquire@gagosian.com.

Tuesday, July 25, 2023, 6:30pm
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
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Sarah Sze will discuss the site-specific installations in her solo exhibition Timelapse, on view at the Guggenheim Museum through September 10. In these works, Sze reflects on how our experience of time and place is continuously reshaped in relationship to the constant stream of objects, images, and information in today’s digitally and materially saturated world. The talk concludes with an exhibition viewing and a book signing in the museum’s Rotunda.

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July 1–September 3, 2023
Cours Cambronne, Nantes, France
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Thomas Houseago’s 16-foot (5-meter) bronze sculpture L’homme Pressé (2010–11) is included in the twelfth edition of the Summer Journey, a display of contemporary sculpture presented annually to complement Le Voyage à Nantes, a permanent collection of more than 120 artworks in public spaces throughout the city of Nantes, France.

Open from July 2, 2023
Luma Arles, France
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Min | Mon by Theaster Gates highlights the ritual, conviviality, and cultural hybridity often at the heart of his projects. Temple, a central structure using materials from Gates’s earliest exhibitions, deepens his exploration of “Afro-Mingei”—an inquiry into the intersection of Black cultural aesthetics and mingei, a Japanese movement honoring the handmade craftsmanship of ordinary utilitarian objects. Uniting key strands of his work, Gates has developed a participatory installation with a DJ booth featuring the artist’s own collection of vinyl records and a bar offering a new sake produced by Gates with the Hakurou brand in Tokoname, Japan. Min | Mon exemplifies Gates’s engagement with ceremony in Eastern culture while giving form to complex truths about craft, labor, value, and origin.

Saturday, July 1, 2023, 6pm
Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio, Rome
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Join Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio to celebrate two recently published titles on Cy Twombly—Cy Twombly: Inscriptions by Thierry Greub and Cy Twombly and the American Critics, 1951–1995: A Reception History by Richard Leeman. Greub will speak with Klaus-Peter Busse about his monumental six-volume catalogue that traces the artist’s long engagement with literary sources from 1953 until his death in 2011. In conversation with Éric de Chassey, Leeman will discuss his book, which analyzes the reception of Twombly’s works in the United States from the artist’s first exhibition in 1951 through to his retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1994–95. The event, which is free to attend, will be introduced by curator Peter Benson Miller.

Wednesday, June 28, 2023, 6:45pm
Rizzoli Bookstore, New York
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Join Rizzoli 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. Artists Moyra Davey, Justine Kurland, and Collier Schorr, together with curator Drew Sawyer, will speak about the influence Woodman’s work has had on their respective practices, and the ways in which an examination of these predominantly unseen books can shed a new light on the late artist’s remarkable work. Published by MACK, the book will be available for purchase at the event.

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Wednesday, June 28, 2023, 8–11pm
Public Records, New York
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Join Gagosian Quarterly together with BOMB and n+1 at Public Records in Brooklyn to celebrate the launch of the magazines’ latest issues. The evening will feature music by DJ 4AM NYC and a free first round of drinks by Brooklyn Gin and Other Half Brewing, and copies of all three publications will be available. The event is free to attend.

Founded by New York City–based artists and writers, BOMB publishes conversations between artists of all disciplines. n+1 is a politically engaged literary magazine with essays, fiction, reviews, letters, and more. Gagosian Quarterly brings readers insightful editorial features on visual art, film, literature, and performance by leading writers and scholars.

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Thursday, June 22, 2023, 1pm EDT

Rachel Middleman, associate professor of art history at California State University, Chico, will give a lecture as part of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute’s webinar series Between the Two: Art and Sexuality in 1960s New York. She will explore the broad category of “erotic art” in exhibitions of the decade, discussing Pop artists including Tom Wesselmann, and consider the ways in which women artists, among them Martha Edelheit and Marjorie Strider, sought to reshape the conventions of “the nude” and upend the presumed objectivity of formalism of erotic art.

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June 10–December 22, 2023
Gagosian, Le Bourget

In conjunction with the exhibition Takashi Murakami: Understanding the New Cognitive Domain, Gagosian is presenting a pop-up shop at the Le Bourget gallery. The shop features all things Takashi Murakami, including catalogues and monographs on the artist as well as a wide selection of merchandise produced by his studio, Kaikai Kiki Co. Ltd., ranging from keychains and stickers to clothing, cushions, and skateboards. Limited-edition luxury apparel and signed editions—including a print based on the painting ZEUSMAP-X (2023), which is presented in the exhibition—are also available.

The pop-up shop is open during exhibition hours. New products will be released twice during the run of the exhibition. Forthcoming details will be announced on Gagosian’s Instagram account.

Monday, June 12, 2023, 7:30pm
Stadtkino Basel
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The Art Basel 2023 film program, curated by Filipa Ramos, highlights Nan Goldin. Screenings of All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022), an epic and emotional story about Goldin’s life and career directed by award-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, and the artist’s moving-image work Sirens (2019–20), which is composed of clips from thirty of her favorite films, will be followed by a live question-and-answer session with Poitras and film curator Marian Masone.

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Monday, June 26, 2023, 7pm
Burlington Arcade, London

Join Gagosian for a film screening and conversation in conjunction with Andy Warhol’s Insiders, a group exhibition and takeover of the Gagosian Shop, London, featuring works by Warhol and portraits of the artist by friends and collaborators. The evening will begin with a screening of an episode of The Andy Warhol Diaries, a six-part series written and directed by Andrew Rossi that takes an in-depth look at the artist’s life and career. Following the screening, Rossi and Gagosian director Jessica Beck, formerly of the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, will discuss the diversity of Warhol’s practice, and his love of not only working behind the scenes, but also posing for the camera.

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Thursday, June 15, 2023, 3pm
Hall 1 Auditorium, Messeplatz, Basel
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As part of the 2023 Art Basel Conversations program, artists Katharina Grosse and Firelei Báez and collector Komal Shah will speak about the challenges they have had to overcome to present female perspectives in their respective practices and collections, as well as discuss possible frameworks needed to address underrepresentation. Moderated by Mark Godfrey, the discussion will offer insight into the connections between individuals shaped by their shared vision of art and underscore the importance of the artist-collector relationship in the art world. The event is free to attend.

Friday, June 9, 2023, 5:30pm
Beaux-Arts de Paris
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Join Gagosian for a conversation between Takashi Murakami and Benoit Pagotto, cofounder of RTFKT Studios and director of brand and partnerships at Nike, on the eve of the artist’s exhibition opening at Gagosian, Le Bourget. Moderated by Gagosian’s Ashley Overbeek, the discussion will center around Murakami’s progression in the NFT space since the launch of his Murakami.Flowers collection in 2022, including his ongoing collaboration with the RTFKT team and the playfulness that he brings to the digital realm. The trio will also touch on the ways artists have utilized and continue to leverage technology, such as artificial intelligence (AI), to innovate. The conversation will be conducted in English and is free to attend. 

The event has reached capacity, but will be streamed live on Gagosian’s YouTube channel.

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May 20–November 26, 2023
Arsenale, Venice

David Adjaye’s Kwaeε (2023) has been installed in Venice as part of the 18th Mostra Internazionale di Architettura, organized by La Biennale di Venezia. Curated by Lesley Lokko, this year’s exhibition, The Laboratory of the Future, which comprises six parts and includes eighty-nine participants, focuses practitioners from Africa and the African diaspora whose work engages directly with the twin themes of decolonization and decarbonization. Of his new sculpture, Adjaye explains, “Acting as an inverted sun dial with shadow patterns that track the position of the sun throughout the day, Kwaeε aims to cultivate and renew celestial, human, and cultural connections across time.”

Tuesday, May 30, 2023, 5–7pm
Columbia Global Center, Paris
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Anselm Kiefer will be in conversation with architectural historian and Columbia professor Barry Bergdoll exploring the role of architecture and space in the artist’s work. The exchange will address, among other works, Kiefer’s permanent installations in the Panthéon in Paris, a building about which Bergdoll has written extensively, including in the exhibition catalogue Le Panthéon: Symbole des révolutions (1989).

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Wednesday, June 14, 2023, 6:30pm
Gagosian at Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles

Join Gagosian and Beyond Baroque Literary | Arts Center for an evening with poets Jerome Rothenberg and Charles Bernstein inside Anselm Kiefer’s exhibition Exodus at Gagosian at Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles. Two of the most consequential figures in radical poetics over the past half century, Rothenberg and Bernstein will explore some of the themes that occupy Kiefer—Jewish mysticism, the poetry of Paul Celan, and the formulation of a global poetics in response to the Holocaust—in a conversation and readings of their poetry. 

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