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Gagosian Quarterly

April 12, 2022

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Peter Paul Rubens

Larry Gagosian reflects on Peter Paul Rubens’s The Massacre of the Innocents (c. 1610).

Peter Paul Rubens, The Massacre of the Innocents, c. 1610, oil on panel, 55 ⅞ × 72 inches (142 × 183 cm), The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 2014

Peter Paul Rubens, The Massacre of the Innocents, c. 1610, oil on panel, 55 ⅞ × 72 inches (142 × 183 cm), The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 2014

It’s a kind of trick; the beautiful, seductive depiction of a brutal, heinous crime. Still speaking to us over centuries. The old masters were dangerous, and it’s not only for pleasure that we return to them again and again. Rubens’s vision of unbridled aggression is an alarm, starkly still relevant to today.

Jean-Michel in Black and White

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Jean-Michel in Black and White

Fred Hoffman looks back on the creation of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Tuxedo (1983), examining the work’s significance in relation to identity and the hip-hop culture of the 1980s.

Walter De Maria: Truck Trilogy

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Walter De Maria: Truck Trilogy

Lars Nittve investigates Truck Trilogy, Walter De Maria’s last work, conceived in 2011 and premiered at Dia:Beacon in 2017.

Andy Warhol: Triple Elvis

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Andy Warhol: Triple Elvis

Text by Derek Blasberg.

Tom Wesselmann

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Tom Wesselmann

The story behind Tom Wesselmann’s Still Life #59 (1972). Text by Lauren Mahony.

Burden

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Burden

The story behind Chris Burden’s Buddha’s Fingers (2014–15) and its connection to all of his streetlamp installations. Text by Sydney Stutterheim.

Basquiat

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Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Untitled (L.A. Painting) (1982) was a game changer. Text by Derek Blasberg.

Painting featuring a man and a woman in cocktail attire talking near the wall of paintings

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Mark Tansey

Alexander Wolf guides us through a multilayered new painting by the celebrated artist.

Picasso

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Picasso

The story behind the sculpture that Diana Widmaier Picasso highlighted in Picasso’s Picassos: A Selection from the Collection of Maya Ruiz-Picasso.

Ruscha

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Ruscha

Ed Ruscha’s Burning Gas Station (1965–66) was a game changer. Text by Larry Gagosian.

Black and white portrait of Lisa Lyon

Lisa Lyon

Fiona Duncan pays homage to the unprecedented, and underappreciated, life and work of Lisa Lyon.

Interior of Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland

Goetheanum: Rudolf Steiner and Contemporary Art

Author and artist Ross Simonini reports on a recent trip to the world center of the anthroposophical movement, the Goetheanum in Switzerland, exploring the influence of the movement’s founder and building’s designer Rudolf Steiner on twentieth-century artists.

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.