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Gagosian Weekly: May 1–7

Harold Ancart - New York

Paintings

Opening reception: Wednesday, May 3, 6–8pm
May 3–June 16, 2023
541 West 24th Street, New York

The new paintings in Harold Ancart's Gagosian debut suggest a place rooted in a longing for escape and use color and texture to blur the boundaries between observed and imagined realities.

Opening this week:

Tom Wesselmann - Beverly Hills

Intimate Spaces

Opening reception: Wednesday, May 3, 6–8pm
May 3–June 16, 2023
456 North Camden Drive, Beverly Hills

This exhibition features paintings of nudes by Tom Wesselmann and includes a number of important works held by the artist's estate, including key examples recognized as the pinnacle of their respective series.

Avedon 100 - New York

Opening reception: Thursday, May 4, 6–8pm
May 4–June 24, 2023
522 West 21st Street, New York

In celebration of the centenary of Richard Avedon's birth, 150 celebrated artists, designers, musicians, writers, curators, and fashion world representatives were asked to select a photograph by Avedon and elaborate on the ways in which image and artist have made an impact on them.

Closing this week:

Katharina Grosse - Hong Kong

Touching How and Why and Where

Through May 6, 2023
7/F Pedder Building, 12 Pedder Street, Central, Hong Kong

For this exhibition Katharina Grosse took an open-ended approach to process by eschewing the use of stencils and other items. "The stencils worked as obstacles to the image," she explains. "I have shifted my interest toward the free flow of color and its ambiguity."

Events and Announcements:

Panel Discussion

Anna Weyant, Hilary Harkness, Hiba Schahbaz - Moderated by Glenn Fuhrman

Saturday, May 6, 2023, 5:30pm
FLAG Art Foundation, New York
www.flagartfoundation.org

Join FLAG Art Foundation for a panel discussion between Anna Weyant and fellow artists Hilary Harkness and Hiba Schahbaz, moderated by FLAG founder Glenn Furhman, on the occasion of the opening of In New York, Thinking of You: Part II. The group will discuss the works in the exhibition, which was inspired by the often conflicting emotions and experiences described in the song "hornylovesickmess" by Norwegian singer-songwriter Marie Ulven (aka the girl in red), including desire, longing, sex, melancholy, vulnerability, and power.

In Conversation

Flavin Judd, Rainer Judd, and Mahfuz Sultan
on "Donald Judd Spaces"

Monday, May 8, 2023, 7pm
McNally Jackson Books Seaport, New York
www.mcnallyjackson.com

In conjunction with the release of Donald Judd Spaces this spring, Judd Foundation will host a conversation at McNally Jackson, New York, between Rainer Judd, artistic director of Judd Foundation; Flavin Judd, president of Judd Foundation; and architect, director, and writer Mahfuz Sultan. This second expanded edition of the book presents an unprecedented visual survey of Judd's living and working spaces in New York and Texas.

Screening

Titus Kaphar Selects

Through May 11, 2023
Metrograph, New York
metrograph.com

Titus Kaphar has curated a selection of films as part of a series copresented by Gagosian and Metrograph. The program features seven films that have each served to validate feelings of joy, pain, fear, or sorrow for the artist, as well as two short films that he directed.

Honor

Edmund de Waal
Isamu Noguchi Award 2023

Edmund de Waal has been selected to receive the Isamu Noguchi Award, which was established in 2014, for his contribution as both a writer and artist. The award will be presented to de Waal in September 2023 at the annual benefit gala at the Noguchi Museum, New York.

Honor

Theaster Gates
Isamu Noguchi Award 2023

Celebrating its tenth year, the Isamu Noguchi Award, which perpetuates Noguchi's legacy, recognizes Theaster Gates for his contribution as an artist. Gates will receive the award during the annual benefit gala at the Noguchi Museum, New York, in September 2023.

Museum Exhibitions:

Opening this week

- La vie en rose
Brueghel, Monet, Twombly

May 5–October 22, 2023
Museum Brandhorst, Munich
www.museum-brandhorst.de

La vie en rose is centered around Cy Twombly's Untitled (Roses), a series of six paintings created for a room in Museum Brandhorst, and on permanent display in Munich since 2009. Taking Twombly's poetic examination of death, freedom, isolation, and eroticism as its starting point, the exhibition brings together works by various artists who have engaged with floral subjects, including Claude Monet's Water Lilies (1915) and Andy Warhol's Flowers (1965). The show aims to reveal the complex, even contradictory motives that have inspired artists over the centuries to take on this subject matter.

- Giuseppe Penone in
Saint Francis of Assisi

May 6–July 30, 2023
National Gallery, London
www.nationalgallery.org.uk

Through art from the thirteenth century to the present day, this exhibition examines why Saint Francis of Assisi (1182–1226) remains a figure of enormous relevance to our time, shining a light on how the saint has captured the imagination of artists throughout the centuries. Work by Giuseppe Penone is included.

 - Anna Weyant in
In New York, Thinking of You: Part II

May 6–June 3, 2023
FLAG Art Foundation, New York
www.flagartfoundation.org

In New York, Thinking of You is a two-part group exhibition featuring largely new or never-before-shown artworks by over two dozen female, female-identifying, and nonbinary artists. Centering on painting, the exhibition highlights a range of subjects, formal disciplines, conceptual practices, and approaches to art making. Work by Anna Weyant is included.

Closing this week

- Helen Frankenthaler in
Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940–1970

Through May 7, 2023
Whitechapel Gallery, London
www.whitechapelgallery.org

Action, Gesture, Paint brings together more than 150 paintings by an overlooked generation of eighty international women artists. The exhibition's geographic breadth demonstrates that, while Abstract Expressionism is said to have begun in the United States, artists all over the world were exploring similar themes of materiality, freedom of expression, perception, and gesture in the postwar period. Work by Helen Frankenthaler is included.

- Richard Prince
Same Man

Through May 7, 2023
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
louisiana.dk

Richard Prince is a perceptive chronicler of American subcultures and vernaculars and their role in the construction of American identity. In his paintings, he probes the depths of racism, sexism, and psychosis in mainstream humor; the mythical status of cowboys, bikers, customized cars, and celebrities; and the push-pull allure of pulp fiction and soft porn, producing such unlikely icons as the Nurse paintings. This exhibition—part of the Louisiana on Paper series, which focuses on drawings—also includes a number of important paintings, photographs, and sculptures encompassing many different bodies of work from throughout Prince's career.

- Making Past Present
Cy Twombly

Through May 7, 2023
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
www.mfa.org

Cy Twombly's engagement with the art and poetry of ancient Greece and Rome played a central role in his creative process. This exhibition explores the artist's lifelong fascination with the ancient Mediterranean world through evocative groupings of his paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures made between the mid-twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Tracing an imaginative journey of encounters with, and responses to, ancient texts and artifacts, the presentation includes sculptures from Twombly's personal collection, on public display for the first time. This exhibition has traveled from the Getty Center in Los Angeles.

Poster Harold Ancart Paintings

The poster featuring Untitled (2023) was produced in conjunction with Harold Ancart: Paintings at Gagosian, 541 West 24th Street, New York. Pairing figuration with abstraction, Ancart discovers moments of unexpected poetry in natural landscapes and built environments. Untitled, a vigorous composition marked by nuances of color and texture, depicts an arboreal motif in oil stick and pencil on canvas.

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