December 13, 2024
Join artist Peter Doig as he discusses the artists and works that inspired the creation of the exhibition The Street, at Gagosian, New York. Curated by Doig, and taking Balthus’s 1933 painting of the same title as its point of departure, the show is a portrait of urban life seen through the eyes of painters.
The Street: Curated by Peter Doig, Gagosian, 980 Madison Avenue, New York, November 1–December 18, 2024
Artwork © Frank Auerbach; © The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved/DACS, London/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York 2024; © 2024 Balthus/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris; Max Beckmann © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; © Estate of Edward Burra c/o Lefevre Fine Art Ltd., London; © Vija Celmins; © Prunella Clough; © René Daniëls. Courtesy René Daniëls Foundation, Eindhoven and Modern Art, London; Giorgio de Chirico © 2024 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/SIAE, Rome; © Estate of Beauford Delaney, by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire, Court Appointed Administrator; © Peter Doig. All rights reserved; © Denzil Forrestor; © Estate of Jean Hélion/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris; © Satoshi Kojima. All rights reserved; © Lottie Maiwald. All rights reserved; © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; © Martin Wong Foundation
Video by Pushpin Films
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Join exhibition curator Donna De Salvo as she discusses her selection of the artist’s rarely seen sculptures, drawings, films, and archival materials in Walter De Maria: The Singular Experience at Gagosian, Le Bourget. Chief among these is Truck Trilogy (2011–17), De Maria’s final sculpture and the centerpiece of the exhibition.
Join Glenn Brown in his London studio as he discusses his presentation for the Studio section of Frieze Masters 2025, which explores the idea of the artist’s studio as a time machine: a space in which historical memory fuels creativity, manifesting in artworks that look to the future. Brown speaks about the featured works, which range from new paintings, drawings, and a sculpture to historic works on paper from the Brown Collection.
Paul McCartney: Rearview Mirror: Photographs, December 1963–February 1964 at Gagosian, Beverly Hills, brings together self-portraits, unguarded snapshots of The Beatles, and vivid depictions of the pandemonium that greeted them at every turn. Ahead of the exhibition, McCartney and Joshua Chuang, director of photography at Gagosian, met up at Griffin Editions in Brooklyn, New York, to reflect on the prints featured in the show.
In conjunction with the exhibition Adriana Varejão: Don’t Forget, We Come From the Tropics at the Hispanic Society Museum & Library, New York, Laura Dias Leite produced a video directed by Luisa Marques in which the artist discusses the genesis of the show. The exhibition debuts the latest works in Varejão’s Plate series (2011–), which, shown alongside historic ceramic plates from the museum’s collection, pose questions about aesthetic hierarchies.
Join Gagosian for a conversation between Derrick Adams and Ekow Eshun, author, curator, and chair of the commissioning group for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, London. The pair discuss Adams’s latest paintings depicting visions of Black Americana—featured in the exhibition Situation Comedy at Gagosian, Davies Street, London—within the context of British contemporary culture.
To coincide with her exhibition Setsuko: Kingdom of Cats, at Gagosian, New York, the artist speaks with architect Peter Marino about her recent sculptures, paintings, and works on paper.
On the occasion of the exhibition Thomas Schütte: Major Sculptures, at Gagosian, New York, Gagosian Art Advisory’s Bernard Lagrange talks about the sculptures featured in the show. The installation includes six sculptures from the Frauen (Women) series and the related Torso (2005).