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Summer Group Show

July 15–August 28, 1998
Wooster Street, New York

Robert Rauschenberg, Philosopher's Night Circus, 1989 Acrylic and enamel on enameled aluminum, 3 panels: 120 × 144 inches overall (304.8 × 365.8 cm)

Robert Rauschenberg, Philosopher's Night Circus, 1989

Acrylic and enamel on enameled aluminum, 3 panels: 120 × 144 inches overall (304.8 × 365.8 cm)

Ed Ruscha, Homeward Bound, 1986 Acrylic on canvas, 2 panels: 120 × 108 inches overall (304.8 × 274.3 cm)

Ed Ruscha, Homeward Bound, 1986

Acrylic on canvas, 2 panels: 120 × 108 inches overall (304.8 × 274.3 cm)

David Smith, Zig V, 1961 Painted steel, 111 × 85 × 44 inches (281.9 × 215.9 × 111.8 cm)

David Smith, Zig V, 1961

Painted steel, 111 × 85 × 44 inches (281.9 × 215.9 × 111.8 cm)

About

Gagosian is pleased to present a group show of important works by gallery artists. This exhibition comprises paintings by Francesco Clemente, Robert Rauschenberg, Ed Ruscha, David Salle, and Philip Taaffe, as well as a major sculpture from 1964 by David Smith.

Black-and-white photograph: Donald Marron, c. 1984.

Donald Marron

Jacoba Urist profiles the legendary collector.

Alexander Calder poster for McGovern, 1972, lithograph

The Art History of Presidential Campaign Posters

Against the backdrop of the 2020 US presidential election, historian Hal Wert takes us through the artistic and political evolution of American campaign posters, from their origin in 1844 to the present. In an interview with Quarterly editor Gillian Jakab, Wert highlights an array of landmark posters and the artists who made them.

Ed Ruscha, At That, 2020, dry pigment and acrylic on paper.

“Things Fall Apart”: Ed Ruscha’s Swiped Words

Lisa Turvey examines the range of effects conveyed by the blurred phrases in recent drawings by the artist, detailing the ways these words in motion evoke the experience of the current moment.

Andy Warhol cover design for the magazine Aspen 1, no. 3.

Artists’ Magazines

Gwen Allen recounts her discovery of cutting-edge artists’ magazines from the 1960s and 1970s and explores the roots and implications of these singular publications.

A painting with gold frame by Louis Michel Eilshemius. Landscape with single figure.

Eilshemius and Me: An Interview with Ed Ruscha

Ed Ruscha tells Viet-Nu Nguyen and Leta Grzan how he first encountered Louis Michel Eilshemius’s paintings, which of the artist’s aesthetic innovations captured his imagination, and how his own work relates to and differs from that of this “Neglected Marvel.”

River Café menu with illustration by Ed Ruscha.

The River Café Cookbook

London’s River Café, a culinary mecca perched on a bend in the River Thames, celebrated its thirtieth anniversary in 2018. To celebrate this milestone and the publication of her cookbook River Café London, cofounder Ruth Rogers sat down with Derek Blasberg to discuss the famed restaurant’s allure.