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THEASTER GATES — BLACK VESSEL

The challenge historically has been that when people of color organize radically ambitious, highly functional cultural institutions—the Black Panther Party, economically viable communities like Tulsa, Oklahoma, the genius organizing of the civil rights movement and the NAACP—that in each of those moments, there has been a white supremacist impulse to destroy those viable institutions. So, the question remains, how do we build cultural institutions that are allowed to thrive given the truth of institutional subjugation and individual subjugation? — Theaster Gates

BLACK VESSEL—Gates’ first solo exhibition in New York City—has been extended until early next year. See link below.

THEASTER GATES—BLACK VESSEL

Through January 23, by appointment.

Gagosian

555 West 24th Street, New York City.

See Gates’ interview with Harriet Lloyd-Smith.

Theaster Gates, Black Vessel, Gagosian, New York, October 10, 2020–January 23, 2021, from top: Flag Sketch, 2020, industrial oil-based enamel, rubber torch down, bitumen, wood, and copper nails; Black Vessel installation views (2); Walking Prayer, 2018–20, bound embossed books and vintage Carnegie cast iron shelving; Walking Prayer (detail); Black Vessel installation views (2); Top Heavy, 2020 (detail), industrial oil-based enamel, rubber torch down, bitumen, wood, and copper. Photographs by Rob McKeever.

Below: Gates’ ceramics studio in Chicago, 2020 (2). Photographs by Chris Strong. All images © Theaster Gates, courtesy of the artist and Gagosian.

ARTISTS FOR NEW YORK

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Fourteen at-risk non-profit visual arts organizations in New York City—Artists Space, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Dia Art Foundation, the The Drawing Center, El Museo del Barrio, High Line Art, MoMA PS1, New Museum, Public Art Fund, Queens Museum, Sculpture Center, the The Studio Museum in Harlem, Swiss Institute, and White Columns—will benefit from the sale of artwork made available as part of the Hauser & Wirth initiative ARTISTS FOR NEW YORK.

Two non-profit charitable partners are also supported: The Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA).

Located at the gallery’s two New York locations and online, more than 100 artists are participating in the project, including Rita Ackermann, Kelly Akashi, Ida Applebroog, Genesis Belanger, Lynda Benglis, Katherine Bernhardt, Huma Bhabha, Carol Bove, Katherine Bradford, Sam Falls, Charles Gaines, Maureen Gallace, Joanne Greenbaum, Mona Hatoum, Mary Heilmann, Camille Henrot, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Shara Hughes, Rashid Johnson, Joan Jonas, Sanya Kantarovsky, June Leaf, Simone Leigh, Zoe Leonard, Glenn Ligon, Sam McKinniss, Marilyn Minter, Sarah Morris, Angel Otero, Adam Pendleton, Elizabeth Peyton, Jack Pierson, R.H. Quaytman, Deborah Roberts, Ugo Rondinone, Mika Rottenberg, Tschabalala Self, Amy Sherald, Cindy Sherman, Amy Sillman, Laurie Simmons, Taryn Simon, Lorna Simpson, Avery Singer, Sarah Sze, Kara Walker, Mary Weatherford, and the estate of Anne Truitt.

See link below for details.

ARTISTS FOR NEW YORK

Through October 22.

Hauser & Wirth

548 West 22nd Street, New York City.

32 East 69th Street, New York City.

From top: Lorna Simpson, Haze, 2019, ink and screenprint on gessoed fiberglass, photograph by James Wang, image courtesy and © the artist and Hauser & Wirth; Kelly Akashi, Feel Me (Flesh), 2020, hand-blown glass and bronze, image courtesy and © the artist, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, and François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles; Mary Weatherford, Meeting in the Forest, 2019, flashe and neon on linen, photograph by Fredrik Nilsen Studio, image courtesy and © the artist, David Kordansky Gallery, and Gagosian; Rashid Johnson, Standing Broken Men, 2020, ceramic tile, mirror tile, spray enamel, oil soap, black stick, wax, photograph by Martin Parsekian, image courtesy and © the artist; Jack Pierson, Inquire Within, 2020, metal and wood, image courtesy and © the artist and Regen Projects; Angel Otero, Sleepy Fire, 2020, oil paint and fabric collaged on canvas, image courtesy and © Lehmann Maupin; Jenny Holzer, from Survival (1983–85), 2020, photograph by Graham Kelman, image courtesy and © the artist and Artist Rights Society (ARS).

JONAS WOOD BOOK SIGNING

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JONAS WOOD—a Phaidon publication, and the artist’s first monograph—is out now. This week, join Wood at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA for a book signing.

The extensively illustrated volume includes essays by Helen Molesworth and Ian Alteveer, and a conversation between Wood and Mark Grotjahn.

JONAS WOOD BOOK SIGNING

Thursday, December 12, from 6 pm to 8 pm.

Geffen Contemporary at MOCA

152 North Central Avenue, downtown Los Angeles.

Jonas Wood, 2019, Phaidon. Images courtesy and © the artist, the publisher, Gagosian, and David Kordansky Gallery. Bball Studio, 2019—the black-and-white etching of the book cover image—is a print (200 copies) included in the special hardcover limited edition of JONAS WOOD, the proceeds of which benefited the Oakland-based non-profit Creative Growth.

FRANKENTHALER IN VENICE

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PITTURA/PANORAMA—PAINTINGS BY HELEN FRANKENTHALER, 1952–1992—an exhibition at Palazzo Grimani—is the first presentation of her work in Venice since the 33rd Biennale in 1966.

Curated by John Elderfield, the show features fourteen works and “focuses on the artist’s development of the pittura (painting) and the panorama: the interplay between works like easel paintings, although made on the floor, and large, horizontal paintings that open onto shallow but expansive spaces, in the way that panoramas do.”*

“There are no rules. I’d rather risk an ugly surprise than rely on things I know I can do. Art has a will of its own. You have to know how to use the accident, how to recognize it, how to control it, and ways to eliminate it so that the whole surface looks felt and born all at once.” — Helen Frankenthaler

PITTURA/PANORAMA—PAINTINGS BY HELEN FRANKENTHALER, 1952–1992*

Through November 17.

Palazzo Grimani

Ramo Grimani 4858, Venice.

From top: Helen Frankenthaler, Riverhead, 1963, acrylic on canvas; Frankenthaler (center) in Venice in 1966 for the 33rd Biennale; Helen Frankenthaler, Maelstrom, 1992, acrylic on canvas; Helen Frankenthaler, For E.M., 1981, acrylic on canvas (“E.M.” is Édouard Manet); Frankenthaler pouring paint—her “soak-stain” technique—onto a large unprimed canvas, photographs by Ernest Haas (2): images from the exhibition catalog Pittura/Panorama: Paintings by Helen Frankenthaler, 1952–1992, published by Gagosian, 2019 (3); Helen Frankenthaler, Open Wall, 1953, oil on unsized, unprimed canvas; Frankenthaler in her studio at Third Avenue and East 94th Street, New York City, with Mediterranean Thoughts (1960, in progress, left) and Figure with Thoughts (1960, in progress, center), March 1960, photograph by Tony Vaccaro. Images of Frankenthaler works were photographed by Rob McKeever and are courtesy and © the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc., Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, and Gagosian, 2019.

SETSUKO KLOSSOWSKA DE ROLA

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“The [ceramics] collaboration with Astier de Villatte began five years ago, but my friendship with the owners, especially Benoit, goes back a long time… I work with their Tibetan artisans. I make samples first and then we work together to add the volume, especially on the large trees, which are about a metre tall. The artisans are always singing or chanting; I feel very serene when I’m with them.” — Setsuko Klossowska de Rola

INTO THE TREES—an exhibition of sculptures and paintings by Setsuko at Gagosian Paris—showcases the artist’s recent ceramics and bronzes.

SETSUKO—INTO THE TREES

Through June 1.

Gagosian Paris

4 rue de Ponthieu, 8th, Paris.

See Dorothée Perret, “Setsuko and the Magic Kimono,” portraits by Katerina Jebb, PARIS LA 16 (2018): 77–83.

From top: Setsuko, Retour, 2015–2016, terra cotta; Into the Trees installation view, Gagosian Paris, 2019; Setsuko, Chemin de vigne, 2016–2017, enameled terra cotta; Katerina Jebb, Setsuko Klossowska de Rola, 2018, image from PARIS LA 16; Setsuko, Souvenir d’une vie 2, 2015–2016. Artwork images © Setsuko Klossowska de Rola, artwork photographs by Zarko Vijatovic, courtesy of the artist and Gagosian.