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May 10–12, 2024
Various locations in Rome
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Gagosian is participating in the second annual Contemporanea—Rome Gallery Weekend with Oscar Murillo: Marks and Whispers. The exhibition, on view at Gagosian, Rome, will be open from 10:30am to 8pm on Friday, May 10, and Saturday, May 11, and from 12 to 6pm on Sunday, May 12. Organized by contemporary art galleries active in and around Rome, the initiative includes more than fifty of the city’s leading galleries, museums, foundations, and art spaces.

Monday, May 13, 2024, 6:30pm
Gagosian, 976 Madison Avenue, New York

Join Gagosian for a conversation between Joshua Chuang and Sébastien Delot on Anselm Kiefer’s photography practice inside the exhibition Anselm Kiefer: Punctum at Gagosian, New York. Chuang is director of photography at the gallery and Delot is director of conservation and collections at the Musée Picasso, Paris, and in 2023 organized the first retrospective to focus on Kiefer’s use of photography. The pair will discuss the artist’s exploration of the medium’s materials, processes, and expressive potentials and how these inform his paintings and artist’s books. Returning to perennial motifs and images, the photographs in the exhibition reinforce the continuity of themes such as ruin and destruction, and growth and renewal, across Kiefer’s oeuvre.

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May 14–June 22, 2024
Gagosian Shop, London

Nan Goldin is taking over the Gagosian Shop in London’s Burlington Arcade, offering visitors an opportunity to explore her practice in depth. The basement floor will be transformed into a reading room of books chosen by Goldin, with publications on artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Larry Clark, Andy Warhol, and David Wojnarowicz, and fiction, essays, and memoirs by writers including Toni Morrison, Darryl Pinckney, Lucy Sante, and Sarah Schulman. A wide selection of publications on Goldin are available on the ground floor, including both new and out-of-print exhibition catalogues, monographs, and artist’s books. Also on display are in-progress layouts from Heartbeat, a forthcoming nine-volume catalogue raisonné of Goldin’s photographs published by Steidl. Over the course of the takeover, different pages from this comprehensive publication project will be displayed, revealing Goldin’s notes and markups over the course of its development.

The Shop takeover accompanies an exhibition of Goldin’s early works in the gallery upstairs and Nan Goldin: Sisters, Saints, Sibyls, the second presentation in the Gagosian Open series of off-site exhibitions, on view at 83 Charing Cross Road from May 30 to June 23, 2024.

Saturday, May 18, 2024, 2–6pm
Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, Tivoli, New York
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Sky High Farm is hosting a picnic fundraiser featuring a DJ set by Michaël Brun and performances by Kelsey Lu, Moses Sumney, The Roots, and other special acts, with food and beverages by local Hudson Valley purveyors available for purchase. The farm is a nonprofit founded by Dan Colen that aims to improve access to nutritious food for New Yorkers in underserved communities. All proceeds from the event will benefit Sky High Farm’s work to solve urgent and long-term issues at the intersection of climate, food access, and education.

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Tuesday, April 30, 2024, 6pm
Seminary Co-op Bookstore, Chicago
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Rick Lowe and Dieter Roelstraete, curator of the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society at the University of Chicago, will be in conversation at the Seminary Co-op Bookstore in Chicago, in partnership with the Neubauer Collegium. The pair will discuss the artist’s recent monograph—the first to present a comprehensive, career-spanning account of Lowe’s art and social practice. Copublished by Gagosian and the Neubauer Collegium, the book was coedited by Roelstraete and also features an essay by the curator. The event is free to attend and will include a question-and-answer session.

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Thursday, April 25, 2024, 6:30–7:30pm
Cooper Union School of Art, New York
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Sarah Sze will be in conversation with writer Teju Cole as part of Public Art Fund Talks, a series organized in collaboration with the Cooper Union to connect contemporary artists to a broad public. The pair will discuss Sze’s ambitious site-specific sculpture Shorter Than the Day (2020), permanently installed at LaGuardia Airport, New York. Commissioned in a partnership between Public Art Fund and LaGuardia Gateway Partners, Sze’s work evokes the passage of time through an intricate constellation of photographs of the sky above New York City taken over the course of one day. Sze and Cole will also explore how both of their respective artistic practices capture nonlinear experiences of time and the urban environment. The event is free to attend.

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Tatiana Trouvé has been named 2024’s Sculptor of the Year by Kistefos in Jevnaker, Norway. Every year, the chosen artist is invited to create a site-specific work to be permanently installed in the museum’s sculpture park. Trouvé’s two Kistefos sculptures are part of her Guardian series (2013–), which symbolize fictional characters who guard different places and life forms. The artist created the works in response to the former wood pulp mill in which they will be installed—keeping not only the landscape and local animal life in mind, but also the building’s industrial history and the people who have shaped it into the institution it is today. The work will be unveiled on May 4, in conjunction with the opening of the 2024 season, and is the fifty-third commission in the collection.

Exhibiting Forgiveness (2023), a film written, directed, and produced by Titus Kaphar, which premiered in January 2024 at the Sundance Film Festival, has been acquired by the film distribution company Roadside Attractions. Exploring family, generational healing, and the power of forgiveness, the motion picture follows a Black artist (André Holland) attempting to overcome the trauma of his past through painting; he is on the path to success when he is derailed by an unexpected visit from his estranged father. The film will open in theaters nationwide in Fall 2024.

Ed Ruscha has partnered with Avant Arte, an online art marketplace, to create a limited-edition print of his painting Actual Size (1962) on the occasion of ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN, a major retrospective of his work at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. A portion of proceeds from sales will benefit the museum’s future. The print will be available for purchase online at Avant Arte for forty-eight hours beginning at 1pm ET on Thursday, April 11, 2024. The edition size will be determined by the number of orders placed within the timed-release period. Each print is individually numbered and authenticated with a bespoke artist’s stamp.

Neil Jenney is the honoree of the Tribeca Ball 2024, taking place on April 1 in New York. During the annual gala, the five floors of the New York Academy of Art are open for guests to explore while students offer a firsthand look at their creative processes. Proceeds from the event support the nonprofit school, which was founded by artists in 1982, and its mission to empower a new generation of artists, and will be used to establish the Neil Jenney Artist Scholarship Fund.

Giuseppe Penone has been named 2024’s Artist of the Year by Prinsessan Estelles Kulturstiftelse (preks), a foundation established in 2019 by Sweden’s Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel and named for their daughter, Princess Estelle, with the mission of promoting cultural activities in the country. Every year, the chosen artist is invited to create a monumental, site-specific work to be permanently installed within Prinsessan Estelles Skulpturpark, a sculpture park at Royal Djurgården in Stockholm. Penone’s sculpture, The Inner Flow of Life (2022), will be unveiled on May 30, 2024.

James Turrell’s Leading (2023) has been permanently installed at Friends Seminary, a Quaker school in Manhattan, New York. On the school’s sixth floor, the artist created a meeting room whose roof opens to the sky and bathes the space in a spectrum of shifting radiant color, while the sky appears to float inside the installation. Leading is the only one of more than eighty-five Skyspaces by Turrell around the world attached to an active K-12 school. The installation is open to the public on the last Friday of each month that Friends Seminary is in session.

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