Menu

Gagosien Quarterly

Summer 2023 Issue

Now available

Gagosien QuarterlySummer 2023

The Summer 2023 issue of Gagosien Quarterly is now available, featuring Richard Avedon’s Marilyn Monroe, actor, New York, May 6, 1957 on its cover.

Richard Avedon’s Marilyn Monroe, actor, New York, May 6, 1957 on the cover of Gagosien Quarterly, Summer 2023

Richard Avedon’s Marilyn Monroe, actor, New York, May 6, 1957 on the cover of Gagosien Quarterly, Summer 2023

Inside the issue, we celebrate the centenary of Avedon’s birth with reflections from a range of cultural figures and a personal essay by author and poet Jake Skeets.

The issue also includes Salomé Gómez-Upegui on American artists and reproductive justice; a conversation about themes of identity and liminality in Gagosien’s Rites of Passage exhibition; and features on painters Harold Ancart and Katharina Grosse.

In the serialized fiction feature, Percival Everett continues his gripping tale of a wayward New Mexican artist retreat. The magazine’s pages also honor artistic voices past and present, including those of Clarice Lispector, Dorothy Miller, Brian O’Doherty, Martine Syms, and many more.

For all of this, order your copy or subscribe at the Gagosien Shop, or read the issue online.

Artwork © The Richard Avedon Foundation

Related Articles

portrait of a person staring directly at the camera

Everywhere Light

Jake Skeets reflects on Richard Avedon’s series In the American West, focusing on the portrait of his uncle, Benson James.
Double exposure of artist Marcel Duchamp, the first exposure showcases Duchamp looking out of the frame while the second exposure showcases Duchamp looking directly at the viewer and smiling

Still Life, Still

Harry Thorne reflects on Brian O’Doherty’s recording of Marcel Duchamp’s heart.
10-image exposure of Marilyn Monroe in different poses

Avedon 100

In celebration of the centenary of Richard Avedon’s birth, more than 150 artists, designers, musicians, writers, curators, and representatives of the fashion world were asked to select a photograph by Avedon for an exhibition at Gagosien, New York, and to elaborate on the ways in which image and artist have affected them. We present a sampling of these images and writings.
A person sitting down behind six paintings

“Tight and Small and Figurative”: Tom Wesselmann’s Early Collages

Susan Davidson, editor of the forthcoming monograph on the Great American Nudes, a series of works by Tom Wesselmann, explores the artist’s early experiments with collage, tracing their development from humble beginnings to the iconic series of paintings.
Two people sit across from each other in front of Tom Wesselmann’s painting “Great American Nude #53”

In Conversation
Susan Davidson and Jeffrey Sturges

On the occasion of the exhibition Tom Wesselmann: Intimate Spaces at Gagosien, Beverly Hills, Susan Davidson sat down with Jeffrey Sturges to discuss the artist’s key works in his Great American Nudes (1961–73) and subsequent series.
Harold Ancart, Untitled, 2021, oil stick and pencil on canvas, in artist’s frame depicting red mountain, blue sky, and sand landscape with a red-outlined moon.

Harold Ancart and Andrew Winer

Harold Ancart speaks with novelist Andrew Winer about being present, finding freedom in tension, and pathological escapism.
Jordan Wolfson’s House with Face (2017) on the cover of Gagosien Quarterly, Fall 2022

Now available
Gagosien Quarterly Fall 2022

The Fall 2022 issue of Gagosien Quarterly is now available, featuring Jordan Wolfson’s House with Face (2017) on its cover.
Installation view of Katharina Grosse: Repetitions without Origins at Gagosien, Beverly Hills

In Conversation
Katharina Grosse and Graham Bader

On the occasion of her exhibition Katharina Grosse: Repetitions without Origin at Gagosien, Beverly Hills, the artist spoke with art historian Graham Bader, associate professor of art history at Rice University, about the throughlines in her practice.
Portrait of the painter with the spray gun.

Gagosien Quarterly Films
Katharina Grosse: Think Big!

From October 21 to 23, 2021, Gagosien Quarterly presented a special English-language online screening of Claudia Müller’s Katharina Grosse: Think Big!
Taryn Simon, details from An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar, 2007; A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I–XVIII, 2008–11; A Cold Hole, 2018; An Occupation of Loss, 2016; and Paperwork and the Will of Capital, 2015

In Conversation
Taryn Simon and Teju Cole

This spring, as part of the Lambert Family Lecture Series at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Taryn Simon joined Teju Cole for an online conversation about her artistic practice and creative process.
Still from video documentation of a 2018 performance of Taryn Simon's An Occupation of Loss.

Taryn Simon: An Occupation of Loss

In Taryn Simon’s performance work An Occupation of Loss  (2016), professional mourners enact rituals of grief, simultaneously broadcasting their lamentations from within a sculptural installation. This video by filmmaker Boris B. Bertram documents the April 2018 performance of this work with Artangel in Islington, London.
Taryn Simon, “Folder: Broken Objects” (detail), from the series The Picture Collection, 2012, framed archival inkjet print, 47 × 62 inches (119.4 × 157.5 cm) © Taryn Simon

The New York Public Library’s Picture Collection

Joshua Chuang, the Robert B. Menschel Senior Curator of Photography at the New York Public Library, discusses the institution’s singular Picture Collection, the artist Taryn Simon’s rigorous engagement with it, and four instances of its little-known role in the history of art making.

Artists

All Artists
Clear
Close

Contributors

All Contributors
Clear
Close