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Nan Goldin
The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

June 11, 2016–April 16, 2017
Museum of Modern Art, New York
www.moma.org

Comprising almost seven hundred photographs sequenced against an evocative soundtrack, Nan Goldin’s The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1979–2004) is a deeply personal narrative formed out of the artist’s own experiences around Boston, New York, Berlin, and elsewhere in the late 1970s, ’80s, and beyond. In this exhibition, The Ballad is presented in its original 35mm format alongside individual photographs from the slideshow. Introducing the installation is a selection of materials from the artist’s archive, including posters and flyers announcing early iterations of the work.

Nan Goldin, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, 1979–2004, Museum of Modern Art, New York © Nan Goldin. Photo: John Wronn

Nan Goldin, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, 1979–2004, Museum of Modern Art, New York © Nan Goldin. Photo: John Wronn

Detail from Roy Lichtenstein’s Bauhaus Stairway Mural (1989), on the cover of Gagosian Quarterly, Summer 2024

Now available
Gagosian Quarterly Summer 2024

The Summer 2024 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring a detail of Roy Lichtenstein’s Bauhaus Stairway Mural (1989) on the cover.

A hand holds a tree branch like a gun

Maurizio Cattelan: Sunday Painter

Curated by Francesco Bonami, Sunday is the first solo presentation of new work by Maurizio Cattelan in New York in over twenty years. Here, Bonami asks us to consider Cattelan as a political artist, detailing the potent and clear observations at the core of these works.

portrait of Stanley Whitney

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.

Black and white portrait of the late artist Frank Stella

Frank Stella

In conversation with art historian Megan Kincaid, Frank Stella reflects on his life in art. The two speak about friendship, formalism, and physicality.

Self portrait of Francesca Woodman, she stands against a wall holding pieces of ripped wallpaper in front of her face and legs

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.

Richard Armstrong; color photograph

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

Touch of Evil

Andrew Russeth situates Jamian Juliano-Villani’s daring paintings within her myriad activities shaking up the art world.

Installation view, with three paintings by Simon Hantaï

Simon Hantaï: Azzurro

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Sofia Coppola: Archive

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.

Chris Eitel in the Kagan Design Group workshop

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.

Institutional Buzz

Institutional Buzz

On the occasion of Andrea Fraser sexhibition at the Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare in Bolzano, Italy, Mike Stinavage speaks with the feminist performance artist about institutions and their discontents.

Black and white portrait of Alexey Brodovitch

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.