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Monday, April 29, 2024, 7–9pm
Brooklyn Museum, New York
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In conjunction with the exhibition Hiroshige’s 100 Famous Views of Edo (feat. Takashi Murakami) at the Brooklyn Museum, Murakami and curator Joan Cummins will discuss the artist’s new series of fantastical paintings that respond to Utagawa Hiroshige’s 100 Famous Views of Edo (1856–58), now on view at the museum for the first time in twenty-four years. Cummins and Murakami will also reflect on Hiroshige’s contributions to global art history and his role as a witness to and chronicler of environmental and social change.

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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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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.

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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Art for a Safe and Healthy California is a benefit exhibition and auction presented by Jane Fonda, Gagosian, and Christie’s to support Campaign for a Safe and Healthy California. Artworks donated by artists including Charles Gaines, Frank Gehry, Alex Israel, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Catherine Opie, Christina Quarles, Ed Ruscha, Jonas Wood, among others, will be sold to help the coalition of voters campaigning to stop oil companies attempting to repeal Governor Gavin Newsom’s SB1137 on the November ballot. The bill provides safe setbacks from oil wells for homes, parks, schools, and playgrounds, as well as requirements to make already pumping wells safer.

The benefit launches on April 9 with a ticketed fundraiser in Beverly Hills hosted by Jane Fonda, Larry Gagosian, Aileen Getty, and Susan and Mark Buell, with cohosts Edythe Broad, Frank Gehry, Wendy and Eric Schmidt, Chrissy Teigen and John Legend, and Sean Penn. Highlighted artworks will be on view. A selection of works will be auctioned in the Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale during their marquee sale week in May, while another group of works will be presented for sale in an exhibition in summer 2024 at the Beverly Hills gallery.

Thursday, April 25, 2024, 6–8pm
Gagosian, rue de Ponthieu, Paris

To celebrate the publication of her new book, Into Nature, Setsuko will sign copies at Gagosian, Paris, among a special installation of her works. Into Nature commemorates Setsuko’s recent exhibition of the same name at Gagosian, Gstaad, featuring ceramic and bronze sculptures, paintings, and works on paper. In addition to plates, exhibition views, and archival photography, the publication features a foreword by the artist and a text by novelist and poet Shan Sa, who was formerly an assistant to Setsuko. Published by Gagosian, the book will be available for purchase at the event, which is free to attend.

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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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In episode two of the National Gallery of Art’s video series West to East, which launched in spring 2023, Rick Lowe guides the viewer through his home in the Third Ward neighborhood of Houston. West to East focuses on contemporary artists whose works actively explore connections to their distinct communities and the United States at large, looking in particular at those working outside well-known “art hubs.” Lowe has spent thirty years combining art and activism via his community platform, Project Row Houses, and more recently he has been creating paintings inspired by maps and dominoes, in a quest for aesthetic beauty. Lowe and his community partners work together to “map the unknown” future.