GAGOSIAN JOURNAL PARIS OCTOBER 2024
4 JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT FROM MODENA TO LOS ANGELES Jessica Beck addresses the artist’s 1982 trip to Italy, considering the effects of the country’s art and history on the young painter’s process and iconography.
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Tom Wesselmann: The Great American Nude
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Maison Ancart
Susan Davidson meets with Jeffrey Sturges, director of exhibitions for the Estate of Tom Wesselmann, and Gagosian director Jason Ysenburg to discuss the importance of Wesselmann’s series The Great American Nude.
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Derrick Adams: Super Nudes
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A Day in Paris: A Meal for (Almost) Every Hour
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Masterpieces from the Torlonia Collection
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Alice Notley: Prophecy is alive and well and living in Paris Poets Alice Notley and Ariana Reines discuss what creating and reading poetry can do for the soul.
Novelist Francine Prose reports on Harold Ancart’s new paintings.
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Astier de Villatte
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Glenn Brown and Alexandria Smith met to discuss the influence of Surrealism on their own practices.
Five Paris Cinemas Gagosian Quarterly film writer Carlos Valladares lived in Paris last year while researching his dissertation on French auteur Jacques Demy. Here, he maps out five cinemas that brought him endless joy during this time, sharing a bit about the history and current repertory of each.
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Museum Treasures Curators from the Louvre and Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac select items from their institutions’ collections.
Eco-District
On Surrealism: Glenn Brown & Alexandria Smith
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30 Young Kim explores the enduring power of Parisian ceramics atelier Astier de Villatte.
Longings in Search of an Echo: The Opera and Paris Novelist Andrew Winer speaks with soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen about the affinities between the city of Paris and the art form of opera.