The Summer 2026 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring Ellen Gallagher’s Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish&nbsp;(2026)&nbsp;on the cover.

Gagosian Quarterly Summer 2026

Jenny Saville sitting inside her exhibition at Ca’ Pesaro–Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna, Venice

In this video, Jenny Saville sits down inside her first major exhibition in Venice to discuss how the great Venetian artists of the past and the city’s heritage influence her work. The show brings together more than thirty canvases and works on paper from the 1990s to the present, tracing the development of her practice, which is deeply rooted in the history of painting.

Jenny Saville a Ca’ Pesaro

Black and white image of Francis Bacon sitting in his studio

Francis Bacon lived and worked in Paris for a decade starting in the mid-1970s. The city and the art he encountered there provided a profound backdrop for his austere late style, which often brings together smooth, colorful backgrounds, spare architectural signifiers, and sculptural human forms. Here, three striking paintings from that period are considered by Sebastian Smee.

Francis Bacon: Reinventing Realism

An exhibition at Gagosian, Hong Kong, brings together three of James Turrell’s Glasswork&nbsp;pieces along with site plans, photographs, and models of his Skyspaces and Roden Crater. Here, Alice Godwin explores the history of the Glassworks and their relationship to the artist’s wider practice.

James Turrell: Lifting the Veil

Anselm Kiefer, Für R.M.R. wirf mir die Ohren zu: ich kann dich hören (For R.M.R. seal my ears shut and I shall hear you still), 2023–25

Janne Sirén considers Anselm Kiefer’s new paintings, the subject of an exhibition at Gagosian, New York, entitled&nbsp;Seal My Ears Shut and I Shall Hear You Still.

Divine Emanations: Nymphs, Poets, and the Painter’s Palette

Derrick Adams's work "When the Stars Align" (2026) is a painting of a person singing on top of a horse

On April 16, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, opened the first midcareer survey of Derrick Adams’s multidisciplinary practice. Covering over twenty years of work, the exhibition, titled&nbsp;View Master, brings together the artist’s painting, sculpture, collage, performance, and video, as well as a vibrant new commission created for the museum’s façade. Ahead of the opening, Adams met with Tessa Bachi Haas, cocurator of the survey, to discuss his formative experiences with television, the impact of his work in arts education on his practice, and the importance of taking a more complex, more joyful, and more expansive approach to Black American life and culture.

Derrick Adams's "When the Stars Align" (2026) is a painting of a person singing on top of a horse

Derrick Adams: View Master

Clepsydra (Water Clock, 2012–24) works at the foundry, Italy

Adam D. Weinberg has been working with Giuseppe Penone on an exhibition of the artist’s new sculptures,&nbsp;The Reflection of Bronze, that opens at Gagosian, New York, on April 22. The works explore the character and possibilities of bronze. Here, Weinberg considers Penone’s enduring engagement with the alloy and addresses the conceptual underpinnings of the exhibition’s three-room structure.

Giuseppe Penone: The Reflection of Bronze

On March 28, a major exhibition of Jenny Saville’s work opened at Ca’ Pesaro–Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna in Venice, bringing together nearly thirty paintings from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition is curated by Elisabetta Barisoni, head of the museums division at Venice’s Ca’ Pesaro, Museo Fortuny, and head of MUVE in Mestre. Saville’s monumental canvases are set in dialogue with the great Venetian artists of the past, creating a unique encounter between contemporary painting and the city’s artistic heritage. Here, the artist speaks with Stefania Ventra, professor with Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, about her early trips to Venice, the radicality of Titian’s painting, and depicting emotional truth.

Engaging with the Past: An Interview with Jenny Saville

Black and white image of Marcel Duchamp standing behind his work "Bicycle Wheel"

Jeff Koons tells Alison McDonald about his appreciation for the pioneering artist and thinker Marcel Duchamp.

A Tremendous Generosity: Jeff Koons on Marcel Duchamp

Donald Judd's Front Recessed Plywood Chair 84-12 in Sapele Plywood, designed in 1991

From their respective fields, three international cultural figures—artist and designer Ronan Bouroullec, fashion visionary Michèle Lamy, and chef and restaurateur Enrique Olvera—reflect on Donald Judd’s work in furniture, the subject of recent exhibitions in South Korea and Japan.

Donald Judd: Patiently Constructed

Portrait of Henry Moore with Knife Edge Two Piece (1962–65)

Laura Bruni writes about a major exhibition celebrating the work of the British sculptor Henry Moore at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London.

Henry Moore: Monumental Nature

Jill Mulleady's painting "The Shift" features a person lying on the ground with various heads floating above it

The most recent edition of Picture Books, an imprint organized by Emma Cline and Gagosian, pairs Mary Gaitskill’s novella&nbsp;STAUF: A Tragedy&nbsp;with Jill Mulleady’s painting&nbsp;The Shift. In celebration of this forthcoming publication, Gaitskill and Mulleady discuss the myth of Faust, good and evil in the digital age, and the channeling of raw matter into art.

Jill Mulleady's painting "The Shift" features lying on the ground with various heads floating above it

Picture Books: Mary Gaitskill & Jill Mulleady

Portrait of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek at the beach

Andrew Durbin’s dual biography,&nbsp;The Wonderful World That Almost Was: A Life of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, tracks the convergences and divergences in the lives of the two artists, from their first meeting in Coral Cables, Florida, in 1956 through their generative romantic and creative partnership in New York, Italy, Fire Island, and beyond. Ahead of the release, Durbin met with the&nbsp;Quarterly’s Wyatt Allgeier to speak about the development of the project, the sublime noncompliance of these two artists, and the motifs of love, death, and rebirth that weave through the telling of their story.

Gagosian Quarterly

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Gagosian Quarterly Summer 2026

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Now availableGagosian Quarterly Summer 2026

Stay up-to-date on artists, exhibitions, and events.

Now available
Gagosian Quarterly Summer 2026