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July 30–August 24, 2012
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John Chamberlain, Blue Flushing, 1975 Painted and chrome-plated steel, 59 × 63 × 27 inches (149.9 × 160 × 68.6 cm)© Fairweather & Fairweather LTD/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

John Chamberlain, Blue Flushing, 1975

Painted and chrome-plated steel, 59 × 63 × 27 inches (149.9 × 160 × 68.6 cm)
© Fairweather & Fairweather LTD/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Mark Rothko, Plum and Dark Brown, 1964 Oil on canvas, 93 × 76 inches (236.2 × 193 cm)

Mark Rothko, Plum and Dark Brown, 1964

Oil on canvas, 93 × 76 inches (236.2 × 193 cm)

Richard Serra, Elevational Weights, Gravity, 2010 Paintstick on handmade paper, 82 × 68 ¼ inches (208.3 × 173.4 cm)© Richard Serra/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Richard Serra, Elevational Weights, Gravity, 2010

Paintstick on handmade paper, 82 × 68 ¼ inches (208.3 × 173.4 cm)
© Richard Serra/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

David Smith, Construction December II, 1964 Steel, 82 ¾ × 67 × 29 ½ inches (201.2 × 170.2 × 74.9 cm)

David Smith, Construction December II, 1964

Steel, 82 ¾ × 67 × 29 ½ inches (201.2 × 170.2 × 74.9 cm)

Andy Warhol, Piss Painting, 1978 Urine on gesso on canvas, 78 × 194 inches (198.1 × 492.8 cm)© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Andy Warhol, Piss Painting, 1978

Urine on gesso on canvas, 78 × 194 inches (198.1 × 492.8 cm)
© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Christopher Makos, Andy Warhol at Paris Apartment Window, 1981

In Conversation
Christopher Makos and Jessica Beck

Andy Warhol’s Insiders at the Gagosian Shop in London’s historic Burlington Arcade is a group exhibition and shop takeover that feature works by Warhol and portraits of the artist by friends and collaborators including photographers Ronnie Cutrone, Michael Halsband, Christopher Makos, and Billy Name. To celebrate the occasion, Makos met with Gagosian director Jessica Beck to speak about his friendship with Warhol and the joy of the unexpected.

Jessica Beck

Andy Warhol: Silver Screen

In this video, Jessica Beck, director at Gagosian, Beverly Hills, sits down to discuss the three early paintings by Andy Warhol from 1963 featured in the exhibition Andy Warhol: Silver Screen, at Gagosian in Paris.

Anna Weyant’s Two Eileens (2022) on the cover of Gagosian Quarterly, Winter 2022

Now available
Gagosian Quarterly Winter 2022

The Winter 2022 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring Anna Weyant’s Two Eileens (2022) on its cover.

Richard Serra: Johann Sebastian Bach, performed by Alina Ibragimova

Richard Serra: Johann Sebastian Bach, performed by Alina Ibragimova

Violinist Alina Ibragimova performs Bach’s Sonata for Solo Violin No. 1 in G Major: Adagio (BWV 1001, c. 1720) from within Richard Serra’s sculpture Transmitter (2020) at Gagosian, Le Bourget. Organized by Bold Tendencies, a nonprofit organization that commissions artists to produce site-specific projects and present performances, in collaboration with Gagosian, this recorded performance took place on May 8, 2022 before a live concert of Olivier Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time, 1941).

Richard Serra: Johann Sebastian Bach, performed by Mario Brunello

Richard Serra: Johann Sebastian Bach, performed by Mario Brunello

Cellist Mario Brunello performs Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major: Prelude (BWV 1007, c. 1717–23) within Richard Serra’s sculpture Transmitter (2020) at Gagosian, Le Bourget. Organized by Bold Tendencies—a nonprofit that commissions artists to produce site-specific projects and present performances—in collaboration with Gagosian, this recorded performance took place on May 8, 2022, before a live concert of Olivier Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time, 1941).

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.