Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Not Dotty About Damien: Hirst’s Spot Paintings Go Global

An exhibition at all eleven international venues of Gagosian Gallery

Thursday, October 6th, 2011

The Dutchmen’s Heir: Jenny Saville at Gagosian

The author is having a Frankenstein moment.  “Continuum” continues on Madison Ave through October 22.

Lynne Woods Turner, Untitled (9072), 2010. Oil on linen over panel, 10 x 8 inches. Courtesy of Danese
Saturday, April 16th, 2011

The Canon is Under Fire: What Press Releases Tell You, and What They Don’t

The abundance of self-anointed anti-establishment shows reminds us that nothing in the art world is sacred

Robert Rauschenberg, Short Circuit (Combine Painting), 1955. Oil, fabric and paper on wood supports and cabinet with two hinged doors containing a painting by Susan Weil and a reproduction of a Jasper Johns Flag painting by Elaine Sturtevant, 40-3/4 x 37-1/2 x 4-1/4 inches. Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011

Too absorbed by the future to bother about the past: Robert Rauschenberg

If Johns is our Mallarmé, Rauschenberg is our Walt Whitman.

Installation photograph, El Anatsui exhibition, Jack Shainman Gallery, February 10, to March 13, 2010
Friday, February 26th, 2010

February 2010: Carly Berwick, Michèle C. Cone, and Mario Naves with moderator David Cohen

El Anatsui at Jack Shainman, Damien Hirst at Gagosian, Yvonne Jacquette at DC Moore, and Tino Sehgal at the Guggenheim

Phillip Taaffe, Subsaxana, 2007. Mixed media on paper, 21 x 30 inches. images courtesy of Gagosian Gallery
Monday, February 1st, 2010

Phillip Taaffe at Gagosian

Taaffe’s pure decorativeness nevertheless embraces, almost as fetish, the visible husks of signs.

Friday, May 1st, 2009

Pablo Picasso: Mosqueteros at Gagosian Gallery

The problem with late Picasso has to do with his stubborn insistence on diaristic expressionism increasingly isolated from changing times.

Hiroshi Sugimoto, details to follow, Courtesy Gagosian Gallery
Friday, January 30th, 2009

January 2009: Ken Johnson, Elizabeth Schambelan, and Joan Waltemath with moderator David Cohen

Peter Doig at Michael Werner Gallery and Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, R H Quaytman at Miguel Abreu Gallery, Hiroshi Sugimoto at Gagosian Gallery, and Mary Heilmann at 303 Gallery

Friday, October 17th, 2008

Untitled (Vicarious): Photographing the Constructed Object at Gagosian Gallery

This adventurous photography survey, pairing historical and contemporary examples of sculptural construction and assemblage as subject matter, includes David Smith, László Moholy-Nagy, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, James Welling, Gregory Crewdson, Thomas Demand and Wolfgang Tillmans.

Franz West, Untitled, 2007. Papier-maché, styrofoam, epoxy resin, lacquer, metal, 114-1/4 x 39-3/8 inches. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery, © Franz West.
Friday, April 11th, 2008

Franz West: Paßstück

Franz West at Gagosian Gallery