The Bold Stroke: Spencer Sweeney & Lizzi Bougatsos
Old friends chat about their love of music, nightclub paintings, life lessons from aikido, and Spencer Sweeney’s upcoming exhibition The Painted Bride, at Gagosian, New York.
Shortlist
Mixtape: Spencer Sweeney
Spencer Sweeney shares a selection of songs that have punctuated his journey through the pandemic and ponders the expressive powers of a playlist.
In Conversation
Spencer Sweeney and Edek Bartz
Curator and concert promoter Edek Bartz speaks with the artist about portraiture, album covers, and subverting expectations.
In Conversation
Spencer Sweeney and Kembra Pfahler
Kembra Pfahler speaks with Sweeney about his work, staying inspired, and the relationship between self-portraiture and performance.
Jenny Saville a Ca’ Pesaro
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.
The Reflection of Bronze: Giuseppe Penone and Adam D. Weinberg
On the occasion of his exhibition The Reflection of Bronze at Gagosian, New York, Giuseppe Penone and curator Adam D. Weinberg sit down to discuss the genesis of, and their collaboration on, the show.
Marcel Duchamp: The Creative Act
Marcel Duchamp is the inaugural exhibition of the gallery’s new ground-floor space in the historic building at 980 Madison Avenue. In this video, the Quarterly’s Alison McDonald discusses the artist’s most iconic readymades and their connection to New York City.
In Conversation
Es Devlin and Vladimir Yavachev on Christo
In conjunction with the exhibition Christo: Air at Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London, artist and stage designer Es Devlin joins Vladimir Yavachev, director of projects for the Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation, for a conversation. Their exchange revolves around the first-ever presentation of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s large-scale indoor installation Air Package on a Ceiling. Conceived in 1968 but never realized, the luminous form belongs to a series that renders its invisible subject tangible.
Titus Kaphar: The Fire This Time
On the occasion of his exhibition The Fire This Time at Gagosian, Paris, Titus Kaphar discusses themes of history, representation, and collective memory in his recent paintings and hand-carved wood sculptures.
Carol Bove: Nights of Cabiria
Join the artist inside Carol Bove: Nights of Cabiria, her recent exhibition at Gagosian, Beverly Hills, as she considers the power of illusion, the histories of her materials, and the philosophical lessons at the heart of Federico Fellini’s films.
Richard Serra: Steve Reich’s “Music for Pieces of Wood”
In this video, musical ensemble Sō Percussion performs Steve Reich’s “Music for Pieces of Wood” inside the exhibition Richard Serra: Running Arcs (For John Cage), 1992, at Gagosian, New York.
The House on Utopia Parkway: Joseph Cornell’s Studio Re-Created by Wes Anderson
The House on Utopia Parkway: Joseph Cornell’s Studio Re-Created by Wes Anderson is an exhibition conceived by curator Jasper Sharp and the acclaimed American filmmaker. The show brings Cornell’s New York studio to the heart of Paris, transforming Gagosian’s storefront gallery into a meticulously staged tableau—part time capsule, part life-size shadow box—for the first solo presentation of the artist’s work in Paris in more than four decades. In this video, Anderson discusses the genesis of the exhibition and the process by which it came together.