Chelsea Galleries Current Exhibits
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In residence in Chelsea since 2000, the space has continued to show first-rate work from artists as different as the Chinese dissident Ai Wei Wei and fashion designer Nick Cave. Gagosian 555 W. 24th St., 212-741-1111; 522 W. 21st St., 212-741-1717 Currently the biggest name in art, Larry Gagosian operates 11 galleries, two of them in Chelsea. Exhibition Dates at 128 Baxter: December 11 – January 12, 2019 Fair Dates: September 13 – September 23, 2018, booth open 3 – 11pm. Baxter St at CCNY is proud to announce a multifaceted community program facilitated initially through a booth at the San Gennaro Festival from September 13th-23rd and later as an exhibition at 128 Baxter St. Browse current exhibitions at Gagosian galleries around the world, from new work by leading international artists to museum-quality historical exhibitions.
In Conversation
Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Eric N. Mack, Lorraine O’Grady
Chelsea Galleries Current Exhibitions
Thursday, May 30, 2019, 7–9pm
Brooklyn Museum, New York
brooklynmuseum.org
In a series of rapid-fire talks with Brooklyn Museum curators, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Eric N. Mack, and Lorraine O’Grady will discuss their unique artistic practices, historical inspirations, and how their work expands the Western art-historical canon. The discussion is titled “Breaking the Canon.” To attend the event, purchase tickets at www.brooklynmuseum.org.
Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Big Rabbit, Little Rabbit, 2017 © Nathaniel Mary Quinn
Tour
Richard Prince
High Times
Saturday, June 1, 2019, 3pm
Gagosian, San Francisco
Join us for an in-depth look at Richard Prince’s new High Times paintings at Gagosian, San Francisco. Engaging with the city’s historic counterculture and the tradition of American painting, these large-scale works are laden with colorful figures layered upon the canvas. Gagosian’s Graham Dalik will discuss the origins and evolution of these paintings, their connection to Prince’s earlier Hippie Drawings, and the artist’s long-standing interest in many of the literary and cultural figures associated with the Bay Area. To attend this free event, RSVP to sftours@gagosian.com. Space is limited.
Richard Prince, Untitled, 2017–18 © Richard Prince
Book Signing
Rachel Feinstein
Secrets
Monday, June 3, 2019, 5:30–6:30pm
Gagosian Shop, New York
Rachel Feinstein will be signing copies of her new book, Secrets, at the Gagosian Shop in New York. Secretsdocuments Feinstein’s 2018 exhibition at Gagosian, Beverly Hills, which included a series of oversize, flamboyantly colored sculptures of women inspired by the Victoria’s Secret “Angels,” as well as mirror paintings, majolica sculptures, and a panoramic wallpaper that allude to both the European decorative arts and West Coast modernist luxury. A sculptural object in its own right, the book unites these distinct bodies of work—along with an essay by curator Pamela Golbin and a conversation between Feinstein and designer Tom Ford—within a single Z-fold cover, which features a cutout doorway that embodies the dichotomies present in the artist’s work. To attend the free event, RSVP to feinsteinrsvp@gagosian.com.
Rachel Feinstein: Secrets (New York: Gagosian, 2019)
Tour
A line (a)round an idea
Selected Works on Paper
Saturday, June 22, 2019, 11am
Gagosian, Geneva
Join us for a tour of A line (a)round an idea at Gagosian, Geneva. The exhibition, which presents black-and-white works on paper spanning a period of seventy years, includes work by Richard Artschwager, Georg Baselitz, Bruce Conner, Willem de Kooning, Günther Förg, Sam Francis, Keith Haring, Christine Hiebert, Hans Hofmann, Franz Kline, Brice Marden, Henri Matisse, Robert Motherwell, Ad Reinhardt, Richard Serra, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann, and others. Gagosian’s Johan Nauckhoff will give an overview of the exhibition, focusing on ways in which modern and contemporary artists have explored the clarity and activating power of the simple line, mark, splatter, or stroke. To attend the free event, RSVP to genevatours@gagosian.com. Space is limited.
Installation view, A line (a)round an idea: Selected Works on Paper, Gagosian, Geneva, May 2–July 27, 2019. Artwork, left to right: © Cy Twombly Foundation; © 2019 Richard Artschwager/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; © 2019 The Franz Kline Estate/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; © Richard Serra; © 2019 Dedalus Foundation, Inc./Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Museum Exhibitions
Programa de educacion especial universidad pedagogica nacional. Opening Today
Elective Affinities
Edmund de Waal at the Frick Collection
May 30–November 17, 2019
Frick Collection, New York
www.frick.org
The Frick Collection presents an installation of Edmund de Waal’s site-specific works made of porcelain, steel, gold, marble, and glass that are displayed alongside works from the permanent collection.
Front: Edmund de Waal, that pause of space, 2019 © Edmund de Waal. Back: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Comtesse d’Haussonville, 1845. Photo: Christopher Burke
Closing this Week
Amulet or He calls it chaos
Through June 1, 2019
500 Capp Street Foundation, San Francisco
500cappstreet.org
This two-part exhibition uses sculpture, video, and painting as a way to restructure the narrative. AmuletorHe calls it chaos chooses the illogical, philosophical, yet recognizable material world of magical realism, while also addressing the power and sensitivity of architecture, gender, politics, and mortality. Work by Katharina Grosse and Cindy Sherman is included.
Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2017, installation view, Amulet or He calls it chaos, 500 Capp Street Foundation, San Francisco, March 9–June 1, 2019. Artwork © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2019. Photo: Preston/Kalogiros
Closing this Week
Katharina Grosse
Mumbling Mud
Through June 2, 2019
Guangzhou K11 Art Mall, China
www.k11artfoundation.org
Guangzhou’s K11 Art Mall hosts a major exhibition originally created by Katharina Grosse for Shanghai’s chi K11 art museum.
Installation view, Katharina Grosse: Mumbling Mud, chi K11 art museum, Shanghai, November 10, 2018–February 24, 2019. Artwork © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2019. Photo: JJYPHOTO, courtesy K11 Art Foundation and Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna
Closing this Week
Franz West
Through June 2, 2019
Tate Modern, London
www.tate.org.uk
Tate Modern presents a retrospective on the work of Franz West, with almost two hundred artworks West made between 1972 and 2012. The show includes his rarely exhibited drawings from the early 1970s as well as his first sculptures, Passstücke, begun in 1973, alongside a selection of the papier-mâché sculptures of the 1980s, and West’s celebrated collaborations with fellow artists. The exhibition also features the collages and drawings of his later years, as well as models for open-air works and a selection of such sculptures, in addition to his furniture works. This extensive presentation highlights not only the artist’s outstanding capacity for formal invention, but also his irreverent and caustic sensibility. This exhibition has traveled from the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
Franz West, Herbert Brandl, Otto Zitko, and Heimo Zobernig, Untitled, 1988 © Estate Franz West © Archiv Franz West. Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography Zürich