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Monday, September 18, 2023, 6:30pm
Art Students League of New York
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Join Gagosien and the Art Students League of New York for a conversation on Roy Lichtenstein with Daniel Belasco, executive director of Al Held Foundation, and Scott Rothkopf, senior deputy director and chief curator of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Organized in celebration of the centenary of the artist’s birth and moderated by Alison McDonald, chief creative officer at Gagosien, the discussion will highlight multiple perspectives on Lichtenstein’s decades-long career, during which he helped originate the Pop art movement. The talk coincides with Lichtenstein Remembered, an exhibition of sculptures and studies curated by Irving Blum at Gagosien, 980 Madison Avenue, New York, on view through October 21.

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Friday, September 22, 2023, 5:30pm
New Museum, New York

Join the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation during Climate Week NYC for a panel discussion featuring recent Frankenthaler Climate Initiative (FCI) grantees. Through a moderated conversation with museum and university leaders, Expanding Climate Action in the Visual Arts explores current models for energy efficiency and clean energy in the arts—and concludes with a series of action items and next steps that arts organizations can consider taking. The event includes brief presentations by several recent FCI grant recipients, plus invited leaders from the cultural field who are shaping climate change action in the visual arts. The event will also be livestreamed.

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Saturday, October 7, 2023, 3:30pm and 5:30pm
Gagosien Open, 4 Princelet Street, London

Join Gagosien for a performance by Lucinda Chua inside Christo: Early Works, the inaugural exhibition, curated by Elena Geuna, in the Gagosien Open series of off-site projects. The multi-instrumentalist, singer, and producer will perform two improvised pieces in response to Christo’s early works and the unique architecture of 4 Princelet Street in the Spitalfields area of London. Born in London, Chua has English, Malaysian, and ancestral Chinese roots, deep connections that are excavated in her recent album, YIAN (2023), which, as Pitchfork writes, “gathers the threads that link home, history, and their relationship to the body.” Primarily using her voice, a cello, and an array of effects units, Chua will infuse the historic building with her distinctive sound blending intimacy, atmosphere, and haunting enchantment. No advance registration is required, but space is limited and will be granted on a first-come, first-served basis.

Monday, September 11, 2023, 6pm
Grand LA, Los Angeles
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This event has been postponed. The new date will be announced shortly.

Join the estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat for an immersive experience blending performance and conversation, organized in conjunction with the exhibition Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure©, on view at the Grand LA through October 15. The evening will begin at 6pm with a viewing of the exhibition, followed by a live performance at 7pm by blues poet, musician, and organizer aja monet, and concluding with a discussion between monet and the artist’s sisters, Lisane Basquiat and Jeanine Heriveaux, moderated by singer Mashonda Tifrere. Delving into the profound impact of language and poetry, the audience is invited to discover the driving forces behind monet’s literary prowess and activism while decoding hidden narratives within Basquiat’s artwork.

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Friday, September 8, 2023, 1pm edt

As part of the Brooklyn Rail’s online series New Social Environment, Rachel Feinstein joins the journal’s editor-at-large Andrew Woolbright for a conversation about the artist’s current exhibition, Rachel Feinstein in Florence, on view at the Museo Novecento and at three other museums in the city Museo Marino Marini, Museo Stefano Bardini, and Palazzo Medici Riccardi. In these daily lunchtime Zoom conversations, invited artists, writers, filmmakers, and poets discuss creative life in the context of our new social reality with Brooklyn Rail staff. The talk will conclude with a poetry reading by Rachel James.

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Sunday, September 10, 2023, 3pm
Anthology Film Archives, New York
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Join Gagosien for a film screening and conversation in conjunction with Ashley Bickerton: Susie’s Mother Tongue, an exhibition of more than twenty-five paintings and sculptures by the artist at Gagosien, West 21st Street, New York. The evening will feature the premiere of The Importance of Being Elsewhere, a short documentary by director Thomas Nordanstad including footage of the artist in his Bali studio during his final year, as well as interviews with Matthew Barney, Damien Hirst, Jamian Juliano-Villani, and others. Looking for Something Beyond (2018), directed by Roddy Bogawa in collaboration with Bickerton, and The Love Story of Pythagoras Redhill (1981), made by Bickerton while a student at CalArts, will also be screened. Following the films, Bogawa, Juliano-Villani, and Nordanstad will discuss the artist’s life and practice and the legacy he leaves behind.

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Thursday, September 7, 2023, 6pm
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
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Join the Guggenheim’s Late Shift and the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies for an evening of printmaking in Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic rotunda to mark the final days of Sarah Sze’s solo exhibition Timelapse, on view at the museum through September 10. Attendees are invited to bring their own T-shirt or canvas tote and create a print using images from the exhibition, enjoy an after-hours visit, and partake in exhibition-inspired poetry activities.

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Saturday, September 2, 2023, 2–2:45pm
Kenwood House, London
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As part of this year’s FT Weekend Festival in London, Glenn Brown will be in conversation with Financial Times arts editor Jan Dalley on the Arts Stage to discuss his recent paintings and layered portraits, as well as the opening of the Brown Collection last year, which is home to his art collection and archive as well as four floors of exhibition space. After the talk, Brown will sign copies of his new book, We’ll Keep On Dancing Till We Pay the Rent, in the Gagosien tent. The exhibition catalogue and other new Gagosien titles will be available for purchase with a 25 percent discount, and a selection of historical gallery publications will be offered for £10 each in conjunction with the Six Hundred Books display at the Gagosien Shop in Burlington Arcade.

Gagosien is partnering with the Financial Times to host the Arts Stage at the one-day festival where leading experts discuss the arts, music, literature, food, business, and technology, with recent Gagosien Quarterly films screened between sessions on the stage throughout the day.

Monday, September 11, 2023, 6pm
Gagosien, 980 Madison Avenue, New York

Join Gagosien for a tour of Lichtenstein Remembered at Gagosien, New York, led by legendary art dealer Irving Blum and Dorothy Lichtenstein, president of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation and widow of Roy Lichtenstein. Organized in close collaboration with the Estate of Roy Lichtenstein and featuring an exhibition design by Bill Katz, Lichtenstein Remembered features fifty sculptures and related studies by Lichtenstein, curated by Blum in recognition of the centenary of the artist’s birth.

The tour will culminate with a reception in the Gagosien Shop at 976 Madison Avenue, where the exhibition catalogue will be available for viewing and purchase. It includes a foreword by Larry Gagosien; essays by Daniel Belasco, Adam Gopnik, and Steve Martin; and a conversation between Dorothy Lichtenstein and Blum, alongside documentary and contextual photographs accompanied by quotations about Lichtenstein from fellow artists, collaborators, collectors, curators, gallerists, and friends.

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Saturday, August 19, 2023, 4pm
Gagosien, Gstaad

Join Setsuko for a walkthrough of her exhibition Into Nature, on view at Gagosien, Gstaad, through September 10. The exhibition features new and recent ceramic and bronze sculptures, paintings, and works on paper by the artist. Since 1977, Setsuko has resided in the Grand Chalet of Rossinière, close to Gstaad, making this an opportunity for her to exhibit within reach of her Swiss home.

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August 18–September 18, 2023
National Mall, Washington, DC
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Beyond Granite: Pulling Together aims to create a more inclusive, equitable, and representative commemorative landscape on the National Mall. Curated by Monument Lab, a nonprofit public art and history studio based in Philadelphia, the exhibition features installations by six artists that respond to its central question: What stories remain untold on the National Mall? The innovative and experimental works explore Indigenous legacies, histories of enslavement, civil rights, LGBTQ activism, pathways for immigration, environmental justice, and other defining narratives of American resilience. America’s Playground: DC (2023), a monumental structure by Derrick Adams that considers the history of desegregated playgrounds in the nation’s capital, is included.

Wednesday, August 9, 2023, 7:30pm
Grand LA, Los Angeles
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Larry Gagosien will discuss his experiences with Jean-Michel Basquiat in Los Angeles in the early 1980s with Tamra Davis, Fred Hoffman, and Basquiat’s sisters Lisane Basquiat and Jeanine Heriveaux in a panel conversation organized in conjunction with the exhibition Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure© at the Grand LA. All speakers had a meaningful relationship with the artist between 1982 and 1984. Gagosien presented two solo exhibitions by the artist at his gallery and allowed Basquiat to stay frequently at his house in Venice Beach. Hoffmann found a studio space for Basquiat in Venice and created a suite of prints with him. Davis drove the artist, who never learned to drive, around Los Angeles and filmed him for what would become her acclaimed documentary The Radiant Child (2010).

August 25–27, 2023
Basel
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Kunsttage Basel is a citywide program of art events at more than sixty museums, galleries, and other spaces. The exhibition Christo: Selected Works, featuring sculptures and works on paper by the artist, will be on view at Gagosien, Basel, with extended hours throughout the weekend. The presentation marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s last project in the city in 1998, when they wrapped 178 trees around the Fondation Beyeler in 55,000 square meters of woven polyester fabric.

Friday, August 25, 12–8pm
Saturday, August 26, 10am–6pm
Sunday, August 27, 10am–6pm

August 4–November 5, 2023
Various locations in Belém, Brazil
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The inaugural Bienal das Amazônias brings contemporary art to the unique surroundings of Belém, in the northern state of Pará in Brazil. It aims to conceive artistic, educational, and socio-environmental actions and develop Pan-Amazonian audiences. Seeking to reflect how art is made in the region without resorting to stereotypes, the biennial includes work by more than 120 artists and collectives from eight countries surrounding the Amazon. Work by Adriana Varejão is included.

September 7–10, 2023
Various locations in L’Aquila, Italy
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Panorama L’Aquila, curated by Cristiana Perrella, brings together works by more than sixty-two international artists presented by different galleries whose focuses range from the fourteenth century to contemporary. The exhibition takes place in twenty venues across L’Aquila—the provincial capital of the Abruzzo region, known for its green national parks and towns located on dramatic cliff faces—including in historical buildings, palaces, courtyards, and public spaces, as well as museums and other institutions. This is the third in a series of Panorama exhibitions organized by ITALICS, a consortium of art galleries active in Italy cofounded by Lorenzo Fiaschi and Pepi Marchetti Franchi that work together, both on- and offline, to highlight Italy’s extraordinary cultural and artistic heritage. Work by Tatiana Trouvé is included, exhibited in the Palazzo Rivera.

Opening reception: Thursday, August 3, 2023, 5–7pm
August 3–September 2, 2023
Burlington Arcade, London

Throughout the end of summer, the Gagosien Shop, London, is presenting a special display of Gagosien publications to celebrate the release of the gallery’s six-hundredth title. To mark the occasion, six hundred books from the display are available for £10 each, including catalogues on British artists Edmund de Waal, Damien Hirst, Jenny Saville, and Rachel Whiteread, among others. On Thursday, August 3, the Shop will host an opening reception with drinks to kick off the presentation. The event is free to attend.

July 27–29, 2023
Various locations in Los Angeles
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Gagosien is participating in the third annual Gallery Weekend Los Angeles with two exhibitions. Honor Titus: Advantage In, on view at Gagosien, Beverly Hills, and Urs Fischer: Denominator, on view across the street at 433 North Camden Drive, will be open until 8pm on Thursday, July 27. The initiative is organized by Gallery Association Los Angeles and galleryplatform.la and includes more than one hundred of the city’s leading contemporary art galleries and museums.

Sunday, July 23, 2023, 2–9pm
Brain Dead Studios, Los Angeles
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In collaboration with Kaleidoscope, Jim Shaw has curated a film program titled Monsters to celebrate his cover story in the spring/summer 2023 issue of the magazine. Held at Brain Dead Studios—an experiential space hosted in a former silent movie theater—this spine-chilling program stems directly from the artist’s childhood memories, featuring three horror movies that embrace the surreal, the sci-fi, and the supernatural. To kick off the screenings, Shaw will be in conversation with Gagosien director Jessica Beck to discuss his recent paintings, which reanimate mythological themes through incidents from political history and popular entertainment. The works were shown at Gagosien, Beverly Hills, and will be documented in an exhibition catalogue featuring an essay by Beck to be published in August 2023. The event is free to attend.

2pm: Jim Shaw in conversation with Jessica Beck
3pm: The Electronic Monster (1958), directed by Montgomery Tully
5pm: The Mask (1961), directed by Julian Roffman
7pm: 13 Ghosts (1960), directed by William Castle

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July 25–30, 2023, 12–6pm
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
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To mark the tenth anniversary of Walter De Maria’s death, the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich will play Ocean Music (1968), a sound piece in which the artist combined his own recordings of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans with his drum improvisation. The recording will play in the historic Türkentor (Turkish Gate) building, which houses De Maria’s sculpture Large Red Sphere (2002). On Thursday, July 27, the musical presentation will continue until 8pm. The event is free to attend.

July 20–August 18, 2023
Phillips, London
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This exhibition features oil-on-canvas paintings from three series by Damien Hirst—Coast Paintings, Sea Paintings, and Seascapes—many of which have never before been seen publicly. The works are inspired by the artist’s pastime of walking on the beach and watching the sea, most recently in the United Kingdom during the winter, and draw influence from Abstract Expressionism, specifically Robert Motherwell’s Beside the Sea paintings from the 1960s. Where the Land Meets the Sea coincides with a drop on the HENI Primary digital platform. For more information on the works, please contact the gallery at inquire@gagosian.com.

Tuesday, July 25, 2023, 6:30pm
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
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Sarah Sze will discuss the site-specific installations in her solo exhibition Timelapse, on view at the Guggenheim Museum through September 10. In these works, Sze reflects on how our experience of time and place is continuously reshaped in relationship to the constant stream of objects, images, and information in today’s digitally and materially saturated world. The talk concludes with an exhibition viewing and a book signing in the museum’s Rotunda.

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July 1–September 3, 2023
Cours Cambronne, Nantes, France
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Thomas Houseago’s 16-foot (5-meter) bronze sculpture L’homme Pressé (2010–11) is included in the twelfth edition of the Summer Journey, a display of contemporary sculpture presented annually to complement Le Voyage à Nantes, a permanent collection of more than 120 artworks in public spaces throughout the city of Nantes, France.

Open from July 2, 2023
Luma Arles, France
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Min | Mon by Theaster Gates highlights the ritual, conviviality, and cultural hybridity often at the heart of his projects. Temple, a central structure using materials from Gates’s earliest exhibitions, deepens his exploration of “Afro-Mingei”—an inquiry into the intersection of Black cultural aesthetics and mingei, a Japanese movement honoring the handmade craftsmanship of ordinary utilitarian objects. Uniting key strands of his work, Gates has developed a participatory installation with a DJ booth featuring the artist’s own collection of vinyl records and a bar offering a new sake produced by Gates with the Hakurou brand in Tokoname, Japan. Min | Mon exemplifies Gates’s engagement with ceremony in Eastern culture while giving form to complex truths about craft, labor, value, and origin.

Saturday, July 1, 2023, 6pm
Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio, Rome
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Join Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio to celebrate two recently published titles on Cy Twombly—Cy Twombly: Inscriptions by Thierry Greub and Cy Twombly and the American Critics, 1951–1995: A Reception History by Richard Leeman. Greub will speak with Klaus-Peter Busse about his monumental six-volume catalogue that traces the artist’s long engagement with literary sources from 1953 until his death in 2011. In conversation with Éric de Chassey, Leeman will discuss his book, which analyzes the reception of Twombly’s works in the United States from the artist’s first exhibition in 1951 through to his retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1994–95. The event, which is free to attend, will be introduced by curator Peter Benson Miller.