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Now online! Daydreams and Nightmares is a virtual exhibition of modern and contemporary works that engage with the genre of Surrealism. Presented on the Gagosian website and in the Frieze Viewing Room, the show considers the legacy of the original movement, and the ways in which its spirit of adventure and subversion of reality have progressed over the past hundred years to foster an ongoing dialogue between art and society.

#AdrianaVarejao: "Talavera," an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Adriana Varejão, is now open at Gagosian, West 21st Street, New York. This is her first show with the gallery in New York, following presentations in Rome in 2016, and Los Angeles in 2017. In the late 1980s, Varejão began researching "azulejos," the glazed terra-cotta tiles of Arab origin that have been the most widely used form of decoration in Portuguese art since the Middle Ages and that were bro...ught to Brazil through colonization and trade. From this, she developed her unique and ever-evolving series of "tile" paintings, made by covering a square canvas with a thick layer of plaster and allowing it to gradually dry to produce a surface with deep fissures resembling ancient crackled porcelainor geological time itself: http://on.gagosian.com/nJMa88e __________ Installation view, "Adriana Varejão: Talavera," Gagosian, West 21st Street, New York, May 3June 26, 2021. Artwork Adriana Varejão. Photo: Rob McKeever See more

#GeorgBaselitz: "Springtime," an exhibition of new paintings by Georg Baselitz, is now open at Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, New York. Throughout his long and distinguished career, Baselitz has combined a direct and provocative approach to making art with an openness to art historical lineages, counting among others Willem de Kooning and Philip Guston as his key influences. In 1969, he began composing the inverted images for which he has become best known to slow the proces...ses of making, looking, and apprehending. During the past fifty years, he has augmented his visual language with a range of formal and historical allusions while consistently returning to the human figure. Often he reinterpretscannibalizeshis own work: http://on.gagosian.com/zREBclL __________ Installation view, "Georg Baselitz: Springtime," Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, New York, May 4June 12, 2021. Artwork Georg Baselitz 2021. Photo: Rob McKeever See more

Tune in on tomorrow at 5pm EDT for an online conversation between Dan Colen, artist and founder of Sky High Farm, Aimee Meredith Cox, associate professor of Anthropology and African American Studies at Yale University and author of the award-winning monograph Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship, and Hank Willis Thomas, Conceptual artist and cofounder of For Freedoms. Moderated by Ora Wise, executive director of Sky High Farm, the group will explore the transformative power of art making, the politics of collaboration, and the role of creative expression within social justice movements. This talk is hosted by Gagosian in partnership with Dover Street Market and is part of a tribute, organized by Frieze New York, honoring the Vision & Justice Project and its founder Sarah Elizabeth Lewis.

#GagosianSpotlight: In this 2019 exhibition at the Musée Eugène Delacroix, which is an affiliate of the Musée du Louvre, Glenn Brown presented new works, with an emphasis on drawing, as well as a large sculpture inspired by Delacroix, among other artists. http://on.gagosian.com/8LhgxFK

#GagosianSpotlight: I want my paintings to be between states in every way you can think of, between beautiful and ugly, between violent and passive, between happy and sad, between male and female. Glenn Brown With preparations underway for an exhibition in London, Glenn Brown sat down with author Hari Kunzru in 2018 to discuss Brown's artmaking process, the idea of the copy, and surprising overlaps between creating visual and literary works.

#NamJunePaik: Gagosian is pleased to participate in a special presentation on 8-bridges in celebration of Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month. Three sculptures and one drawing by Nam June Paik are featured in anticipation of the artist’s major retrospective at SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, opening May 8. In these works, Paik uses paper and TV screens interchangeably as surfaces for gestural improvisation. Dating from the last decade of the artist’s life, they embody his playful and predictive conflations of tech and mass communication with images from nature and spontaneous mark making.

#NathanielMaryQuinn: Hear Nathaniel Mary Quinn describe the creation of a new work in this time-lapse documentation of his process. This painting is now on view in the artist’s solo exhibition at Gagosian, Davies Street, London, through November 21.

Today at 12pm EST as part of the Brooklyn Museum’s Virtual Brooklyn Talks series, Ed Ruscha, music producer Kasseem Swizz Beatz Dean, and entrepreneur Jimmy Iovine will discuss the current state of American democracy and how the arts can play a role in its future. The online conversation will be moderated by Anne Pasternak, director of the Brooklyn Museum. This critical conversation will examine how artists are using their platforms to contribute to civic engagement, in electoral politics and beyond.

#GagosianQuarterly: "A jewel is like the tiniest canvas. If you think of a ring or a bracelet or even a necklace, in terms of surface, it’s probably one of the smallest sites of expression that is available to an artisan or an artist to imagine something and then create it in three dimensions." Sabina Belli The CEO of Milanese jewelry company Pomellato speaks with "Gagosian Quarterly" about the role of art in the company’s design process, the importance of establishing a cor...e DNA, and the Pomellato for Women campaign, a social initiative she founded in 2017: http://on.gagosian.com/9hAikaC _________ Archival image from Pomellato’s "Since 1967" publication See more

#FromTheLibrary: Brice Marden is available for online reading through November 9 as part of the From the Library series. This catalogue was published on the occasion of the artist’s 2017 exhibition at Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London, and focuses on Marden’s terre verte paintings. For the series of ten identically sized paintings measuring eight by six feet, he has employed ten different brands of terre verte oil paintfrom his favored Williamsburg to Holbein and Sennelier,... among otherseach a variation on the indefinable hue. The slow-drying paint is thinned and applied gradually to the canvas in many successive veils, building a surface of transparent yet intense color. New texts by Paul Hills and Noah Dillon, and a conversation between Marden, Gary Hume, and Tim Marlow examine this new body of work from multiple perspectives: http://on.gagosian.com/c7Ogcqw __________ Brice Marden (London: Gagosian, 2017); Portrait: Mirabelle Marden

#TitusKaphar: An exhibition of new paintings by Titus Kaphar, is on view at Gagosian, West 21st Street, New York, through December 19. This is Kaphar’s first exhibition with the gallery and inaugurates his representation. In the exhibition "From a Tropical Space," Kaphar presents a haunting narrative of Black motherhood wherein collective fear and trauma crescendo in the disappearance of children, literalized through the physical excision of their images from the canvases the...mselves. The absence of each juvenile figurewhether seated in a stroller or held in a woman’s armsreveals only the blank gallery wall beneath. The intense coloration of the suburban environments in which the figures are set only heightens a pervasive tensionthese are images for uncertain times: http://on.gagosian.com/2iuPQew __________ Installation view, "Titus Kaphar: From a Tropical Space," Gagosian, West 21st Street, New York, October 1December 19, 2020. Artwork Titus Kaphar. Photos: Rob McKeever See more

#FromTheLibrary: Rachel Whiteread: Detached is available for online reading through November 19. Published on the occasion of Whiteread’s 2013 exhibition at Gagosian, Britannia Street, London, this catalogue features in situ images of Detached 1, Detached 2, and Detached 3 (all 2012), along with documentary photographs of the works in progress. Also included are vitrines incorporating found objects, small casts, and maquettes; a series cast from doors and windows in delicate shades of rose, eau de Nil, or steely resin; and works on paper. A text by Briony Fer examines the materiality of Whiteread’s work: http://on.gagosian.com/BlOJGnz __________ Rachel Whiteread: Detached (London: Gagosian, 2013)

#LouiseBonnet: "I often refer to movies in my head, and they are probably how I learned to understand the world. As a child in cloistered Geneva, I did not have a TV and we rarely went to the movies . . . If you grow up without that kind of window on the world outside, when it comes in, it’s revelatory." Louise Bonnet In our "Shortlist" series, we invite artists and writers to tell us about works of art, literature, film, or music that have influenced their work or are at the forefront of their minds today. For this installment, Los Angeles-based painter Louise Bonnet reminisces about the films that influenced her development as an artist.

"I'm never drawing the object itself, I'm only drawing a depiction of the object, a kind of crystalized symbol of it." Roy Lichtenstein Head to "Gagosian Quarterly" to learn more about the Roy Lichtenstein in a conversation between Dorothy Lichtenstein and Derek Blasberg. The pair sit down to speak about life in the 1960s and the changes underway at the Lichtenstein Foundation.

"Walk around 'Cyclops,' and the sculpture feels increasingly precarious, like it barely holds itself together. He lumbers over you in the gallery, and it feels like he could fall over, like he was assembled out of pieces . . . 'Cyclops' is in a legacy of assertive statues, yet seems more intent on showing the hollowness of power." Ed Schad In a recent episode of The Broad's "Up Close" series, curator Ed Schad discusses "Giant Figure (Cyclops)" (2011), Thomas Houseago’s impos...ing 14-foot-high sculpture: http://on.gagosian.com/0GDk6Dj __________ Still from "Up Close: Thomas Houseago," courtesy The Broad. Artwork Thomas Houseago See more

#GagosianQuarterly: "More than ever, as the dreamers of musicals and the second-wave gangsters die away, we study the legacy they left behindand we must choose to conjure up their spirit in new forms of expression, not to trot out the old dependable classics, unchanged, unchallenged, and declare humanity a lost cause." Carlos Valladares In a piece for "Gagosian Quarterly," Carlos Valladares explores the gangster film genre, tracing the conventions and evolutions in the form from the exuberance of Raoul Walsh’s "The Roaring Twenties" to the heavy silence of Martin Scorsese’s "The Irishman."

#LouiseBonnet: "The Hours," an exhibition of new oil paintings by Louise Bonnet, is on view exclusively through the storefront windows of Gagosian, Park & 75, New York, twenty-four hours a day, through November 7. While these paintings are marked by Bonnet’s confrontational wit and macabre sense of the absurd, they also attest her skill in capturing subtle chromatic luminosities in oil paint. She brings these fantastical images to life by setting each one at a particular time... of day, rendered in nuanced chiaroscuro. Together with her extreme manipulations of scale and perspective, where figures are often boxed uncomfortably within the edges of the painting, Bonnet illuminates her inner life within terms that are vividly surreal: http://on.gagosian.com/CBMAmvV __________ Louise Bonnet, "Calvary with Potato," 2020 Louise Bonnet. Photo: Jeff McLane See more

#JennySaville: "The art I like concentrates on the body . . . It’s more than representation; it’s about the meaning of existence and pushing the medium of paint." Jenny Saville Gagosian is pleased to present "Elpis," an exhibition of new paintings by Jenny Saville, opening November 12 at Gagosian, 980 Madison Avenue, New York. This exhibition marks the reopening of the gallery following the pandemic-related shutdown in March.... Saville’s monumental portraits explore the artist’s persistent fascination with the human body and its aesthetic potential through bold and sensuous use of surface, line, and mass. Titled after the ancient Greek personification of hope left behind at the bottom of Pandora’s boxa spirit traditionally associated with the burdens of human sufferingthe paintings in "Elpis" are grounded in tangible realities while reaching toward their mythological dimensions: http://on.gagosian.com/ORdpBs6 __________ Jenny Saville, "Prism," 2020 Jenny Saville. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates

#KatharinaGrosse: "The philosopher Leibniz had a theory of the so-called 'separatrix,' the 'between' two things that are contradictions. There’s always a line. On one side this is blue, and [on the other] this is red. In reality, red has embassies in the blue, and blue has embassies in the red. And Leibniz says fifty percent of this line, this structure 'between,' is order, and fifty percent is anarchy." Alexander Kluge Gagosian is pleased to present "Separatrix," an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Katharina Grosse, opening October 31 at Gagosian, Rome. Grosse takes a cue from the philosopher Leibniz’s theory of the separatrix, and revels in the alternating moments of order and chaos that arise from visual thresholdsmoments of collision and diffusion in medium, material, and hue.

"Always casting herself in the starring role, Cindy Sherman changed appearance as any actress would, but instead of using her facial expression and body language to tell a feature-length story, she condensed an entire genre into a single frame." Jonathon Keats, Forbes A career retrospective on the work of Cindy Sherman is on view at Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, through January 2021. Designed in close collaboration with the artist, this exhibition presents more than 170 works from 1975 to 2020, with a particular focus on pieces produced in the early 2010s, as well as some previously unseen works.