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Megadealer Larry Gagosian Is the Subject of Unauthorized Documentary In the Works from Director Barry Avrich
New York art dealer Larry Gagosian is the stuff of legend, a self-made man who rose from selling posters on the streets of LA to hobnobbing with celebrities, bidding on artworks for hundreds of millions of dollars, and occasionally even dating artists decades his junior. Art world insiders devoured Patrick Radden Keefe’s sprawling, 17,000-word profile read more
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Robert Therrien Estate Leaves Gagosian After Nearly Three Decades and Joins David Zwirner
After nearly three decades of showing with Gagosian, the Robert Therrien estate has left the mega-gallery and joined the roster of David Zwirner, one of Gagosian’s competitors. The move came shortly after an acclaimed survey of Therrien’s work closed at the Broad museum in Los Angeles. With 120 works included, the exhibition was billed as read more
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Twombly Foundation to Exhibit Rare Rauschenberg Works at Gagosian
The Cy Twombly Foundation will exhibit six works by Robert Rauschenberg at Gagosian gallery next week, marking an opportunity to see these rarely exhibited pieces, all from the early part of the artist’s career. Among the works headed to Gagosian’s new 980 Madison Avenue location on New York’s Upper East Side is a 1950 assemblage read more
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A Work Gifted to David Drake’s Descendants Is the Star of Theaster Gates’s Powerful Gagosian Show
“It started out as young scholarly curiosity,” the artist Theaster Gates said of his initial interest in the work of the 19th-century enslaved potter David Drake, also known as Dave the Potter. Gates was an undergraduate at Iowa State University in the early ’90s, making ceramics that he said referenced “white Americana craft” from the read more
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Gagosian to Open New Upper East Side Gallery with a Duchamp Show, a Rarity in a Commercial Setting
Having been kicked out of its longtime home on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Gagosian is starting over in the neighborhood with a new space on the ground floor of 980 Madison Avenue, the same building where it formerly had a multilevel gallery. Because Gagosian is such a force within the art industry, the inauguration of read more
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Jonas Wood Turns Tennis Courts into Color Experiments in New Gagosian Show
Jonas Wood has been watching sports his whole life, and the habit has followed him into the studio. “I played tons of sports when I was a kid and I was obsessed with following them,” Wood said, speaking with me by Zoom from his Los Angeles studio. “I used to read the entire sports section read more
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Ashley Stewart Rödder, Director at Gagosian, Dead at 42: A ‘Fierce Advocate’ for Artists
Ashley Stewart Rödder, a director at Gagosian, died earlier this week at the age of 42 after battling a severe illness over the past several years, the gallery told ARTnews in an email Saturday. Stewart Rödder had served as a director at Gagosian since 2019, where she worked closely with artists, most notably Nathaniel Mary read more
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Nan Goldin’s Photobook The Ballad of Sexual Dependency Celebrates Its 40th Anniversary at Gagosian
“I don’t ever want to be susceptible to anyone else’s version of my history,” wrote photographer Nan Goldin at the end of her essay for her major photo book The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, first published in 1986. In the 20-plus printings of her debut—and still most celebrated—work, Goldin has never changed the foreword (although read more
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Gagosian Plans Lichtenstein ‘Brushstroke’ Show, Following Last Year’s $150 M. Auction Run and Ahead of Whitney Retrospective
This spring, Gagosian will open its 14th exhibition dedicated to Roy Lichtenstein. Titled “Painting with Scattered Brushstrokes,” the exhibition draws exclusively from the Lichtenstein family collection and will feature paintings, sculpture, watercolors, and works on paper from the 1970s and ’80s. Opening March 19 at the gallery’s 541 West 24th Street space, the show lands read more
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Jeffrey Epstein Advised on Leon Black’s Purchase of $115 M. Picasso from Gagosian, Files Show
A newly released tranche of Jeffrey Epstein files from the Department of Justice show that Epstein was personally involved in high-profile transactions between Gagosian gallery and Leon Black, suggesting that Epstein’s role in liaising between the mega-gallery and the mega-collector ran even deeper than was previously known. The new files include many documents related to read more
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How Larry Gagosian Pulled Off a Standout Show of Jasper Johns’s Crosshatch Paintings
Why did Larry Gagosian want to stage a just-opened blockbuster exhibition of Jasper Johns‘s paintings at his Upper East Side gallery in New York? “First of all, because I want to look at them,” he told Alison McDonald in a soon-to-be-published Gagosian Quarterly interview. It’s not an especially lofty justification, but it’s at least an read more
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