Visit
Madison Avenue Spring Gallery Walk 2024
Saturday, May 18, 2024, 11am–6pm
New York
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Join Artnews and the Madison Avenue Business Improvement District on a springtime walk to visit over sixty galleries that line Madison Avenue from East 57th to East 86th Streets. Visitors to Gagosian at 976 Madison Avenue gallery can see Anselm Kiefer: Punctum, the first exhibition in the United States to center exclusively on the artist’s photography. In the Gagosian Shop, adjacent to the gallery, a suite of woodcuts and a selection of prints by Donald Judd are on view, alongside prints by Frank Gehry, Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha, Stanley Whitney, and Jonas Wood. The Shop also offers an exclusive and extensive selection of artist’s books, exhibition catalogues, posters, and prints.
Installation view, Anselm Kiefer: Punctum, Gagosian, 976 Madison Avenue, New York, April 25–July 3, 2024. Artwork © Anselm Kiefer. Photo: Owen Conway
Support
Art for a Safe and Healthy California
Presented by Jane Fonda, Gagosian, and Christie’s
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.
Ed Ruscha, UPS DOWNS, 2023 © Ed Ruscha. Photo: Brica Wilcox
Screening
Westermann
Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea
Tuesday, October 3, 2023, 7:30pm
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
hammer.ucla.edu
Join the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles for a screening of the 3D documentary Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea (2023), which tells the story of artist, combat veteran, and acrobat H. C. (Cliff) Westermann, whose dramatic history can be traced through the surreal artworks he made to process the horrors he witnessed on the front lines of the Korean War. The film was directed by Leslie Buchbinder and features narration by Ed Harris, as well as interviews with Frank Gehry and Ed Ruscha, among others. The event will be followed by a question-and-answer session with Buchbinder, Gehry, and Ruscha, and is free to attend.
Still from Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea (2023), directed by Leslie Buchbinder. Artwork © Estate of H.C. Westermann/Licensed by VAGA at ARS, New York
Public Installation
Frank Gehry
Wishful Thinking
February 19–March 20, 2022
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
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Frank Gehry’s immersive installation Wishful Thinking (2021) is installed in BP Hall at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, following its debut at Gagosian, Beverly Hills, last year. Based on a scene from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the work depicts the Mad Hatter’s tea party as a group of ten surreal figures, twice life-size. Fashioned from brilliantly painted metal, Gehry’s abstracted interpretations of Lewis Carroll’s characters surround an internally lit table, the glowing heart of the scene. Three overlapping woven steel “tapestries” of trees evoke the episode’s forest setting, while a mirror on the opposite wall implicates the viewer. The crumpled surfaces of Wishful Thinking’s figures establish a new visual connection with some of Gehry’s best-known designs. The installation is free and open to the public.
Frank Gehry, Wishful Thinking, 2021, installation view, Gagosian, Beverly Hills © Frank O. Gehry. Photo: Joshua White
Visit
Gallery Weekend LA
Frank Gehry, Albert Oehlen, Nancy Rubins
July 28–August 1, 2021
Los Angeles
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Gagosian is participating in the inaugural Gallery Weekend LA with three exhibitions. Frank Gehry: Spinning Tales and Nancy Rubins: Fluid Space, both on view at Gagosian’s Beverly Hills location, will be open for extended hours during Gallery Weekend LA (July 28: 10am–7pm; July 29–30: 10am–5:30pm; July 31–August 1: 12–6pm). Visitors can also see Albert Oehlen: Tramonto Spaventoso with an appointment, on view at Marciano Art Foundation (July 28–31: 11am–5pm). The event is organized through Gallery Association Los Angeles and galleryplatform.la and includes nearly eighty-five of the city’s leading contemporary art galleries and museums.
Frank Gehry, Wishful Thinking, 2021, installation view, Frank Gehry: Spinning Tales, Gagosian, Beverly Hills, 2021 © Frank O. Gehry. Photo: Joshua White
Design
Louis Vuitton X
June 28–November 10, 2019
Louis Vuitton X, Beverly Hills
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Louis Vuitton X celebrates the fashion house’s 160-year history of artistic collaborations and marks the world premiere of the Artycapucines Collection. The line includes limited-edition reinterpretations of the label’s iconic Capucines bag by six artists including Urs Fischer, Alex Israel, and Jonas Wood. The exhibition also brings together a collection of early twentieth-century special-order trunks, art deco perfume bottles, iconic Monogram bags reworked by artists such as Frank Gehry and Cindy Sherman, and original collaborations by artists such as Richard Prince.
Jonas Wood’s limited-edition Louis Vuitton Artycapucines bag
In Conversation
Frank Gehry, Maja Hoffmann, Hans Ulrich Obrist
Friday, February 15, 2019, 5pm
Sherry Lansing Theatre, Paramount Studios, Los Angeles
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Frank Gehry will speak with Maja Hoffmann, founder of the Luma Foundation, and Hans Ulrich Obrist, artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries, as part of Frieze’s Conversations on Patronage. The new series explores the social and civic impact of art patronage. The event is free with fair admission.
Photo: David Lauridsen
In Conversation
Frank Gehry, Judy Baca, Anthony Rendon, and Peter Sellars
Thursday, February 8, 2018, 6:30–8pm
University of California, Los Angeles
advocacy.ucla.edu
Policy makers and leading civic figures Frank Gehry, Judy Baca, Peter Sellars, and Anthony Rendon will discuss California Exceptionalism. The lecture is hosted by UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, UCLA Government and Community Relations, and the Center for California Studies. To attend the event, register at advocacy.ucla.edu.
Auction
2017 Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation Gala Auction
Live auction: July 26
Online preview: July 27–August 9
Online bidding: August 10–23
www.2017ldfauction.org
The Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation is dedicated to protecting the world’s last wild places. Since 2008 it has supported over 200 environmental projects across all five oceans and in over fifty countries. This auction helps make it possible for the Foundation to continue supporting pioneering individuals and organizations on the front lines of environmental conservation and climate advocacy, and will feature donated artworks by Urs Fischer, Frank Gehry, Damien Hirst, Thomas Houseago, Jeff Koons, Pablo Picasso, Sterling Ruby, Ed Ruscha, Rudolf Stingel, Lawrence Weiner, and Jonas Wood.
Thomas Houseago, Rainbow I (Psychedelic), 2017