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Now online! Daydreams and Nightmares is a virtual exhibition of modern and contemporary works that engage with the genre of Surrealism. Presented on the Gagosian website and in the Frieze Viewing Room, the show considers the legacy of the original movement, and the ways in which its spirit of adventure and subversion of reality have progressed over the past hundred years to foster an ongoing dialogue between art and society.

#AdrianaVarejao: "Talavera," an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Adriana Varejão, is now open at Gagosian, West 21st Street, New York. This is her first show with the gallery in New York, following presentations in Rome in 2016, and Los Angeles in 2017. In the late 1980s, Varejão began researching "azulejos," the glazed terra-cotta tiles of Arab origin that have been the most widely used form of decoration in Portuguese art since the Middle Ages and that were bro...ught to Brazil through colonization and trade. From this, she developed her unique and ever-evolving series of "tile" paintings, made by covering a square canvas with a thick layer of plaster and allowing it to gradually dry to produce a surface with deep fissures resembling ancient crackled porcelainor geological time itself: http://on.gagosian.com/nJMa88e __________ Installation view, "Adriana Varejão: Talavera," Gagosian, West 21st Street, New York, May 3June 26, 2021. Artwork Adriana Varejão. Photo: Rob McKeever See more

#GeorgBaselitz: "Springtime," an exhibition of new paintings by Georg Baselitz, is now open at Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, New York. Throughout his long and distinguished career, Baselitz has combined a direct and provocative approach to making art with an openness to art historical lineages, counting among others Willem de Kooning and Philip Guston as his key influences. In 1969, he began composing the inverted images for which he has become best known to slow the proces...ses of making, looking, and apprehending. During the past fifty years, he has augmented his visual language with a range of formal and historical allusions while consistently returning to the human figure. Often he reinterpretscannibalizeshis own work: http://on.gagosian.com/zREBclL __________ Installation view, "Georg Baselitz: Springtime," Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, New York, May 4June 12, 2021. Artwork Georg Baselitz 2021. Photo: Rob McKeever See more

Tune in on tomorrow at 5pm EDT for an online conversation between Dan Colen, artist and founder of Sky High Farm, Aimee Meredith Cox, associate professor of Anthropology and African American Studies at Yale University and author of the award-winning monograph Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship, and Hank Willis Thomas, Conceptual artist and cofounder of For Freedoms. Moderated by Ora Wise, executive director of Sky High Farm, the group will explore the transformative power of art making, the politics of collaboration, and the role of creative expression within social justice movements. This talk is hosted by Gagosian in partnership with Dover Street Market and is part of a tribute, organized by Frieze New York, honoring the Vision & Justice Project and its founder Sarah Elizabeth Lewis.

#SterlingRuby: Gagosian is pleased to present "THAT MY NAILS CAN REACH UNTO THINE EYES," an exhibition of new paintings and ceramics by Sterling Ruby, opening May 13 at Gagosian, Athens. In this new body of work inspired by William Shakespeare’s "A Midsummer Night’s Dream," Ruby makes allusions to theater, likening the vantage of a window frame to the proscenium. Taking a cue from the play’s contrasting settings of judicial ancient Athens and the mystical forest beyond, Ruby bisects each canvas vertically with a strip of painted cardboard, introducing a pillar-like barrier that bright pigments rebound against or cower behind. Concurrently, a selection of ceramic sculptures by Ruby will be exhibited within the permanent collections of the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, opening May 12.

#GagosianSpotlight: In this 2019 exhibition at the Musée Eugène Delacroix, which is an affiliate of the Musée du Louvre, Glenn Brown presented new works, with an emphasis on drawing, as well as a large sculpture inspired by Delacroix, among other artists. http://on.gagosian.com/8LhgxFK

#GagosianQuarterly: In the first of a two-part feature, John Elderfield recounts his experiences at "The Lightning Field" (1977), Walter De Maria’s legendary installation in New Mexico. Elderfield considers how this work requires our constantly finding and losing a sense of symmetry and order in shifting perceptions of space, scale, and distance, as the light changes throughout the day.

#GagosianSpotlight: I want my paintings to be between states in every way you can think of, between beautiful and ugly, between violent and passive, between happy and sad, between male and female. Glenn Brown With preparations underway for an exhibition in London, Glenn Brown sat down with author Hari Kunzru in 2018 to discuss Brown's artmaking process, the idea of the copy, and surprising overlaps between creating visual and literary works.

#NamJunePaik: Gagosian is pleased to participate in a special presentation on 8-bridges in celebration of Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month. Three sculptures and one drawing by Nam June Paik are featured in anticipation of the artist’s major retrospective at SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, opening May 8. In these works, Paik uses paper and TV screens interchangeably as surfaces for gestural improvisation. Dating from the last decade of the artist’s life, they embody his playful and predictive conflations of tech and mass communication with images from nature and spontaneous mark making.

#GagosianSpotlight: We are technicians of freedom, and it is our duty to make use of this privilege. Albert Oehlen Albert Oehlen delivered the commencement address at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015. In his humorous and insightful speech, he considers the importance of freedom to artistic practice.

#GagosianSpotify: Head to Gagosian’s Spotify channel to listen to a new curated playlist by Albert Oehlen featuring fourteen tracks ranging in genres from free jazz to techno. Titled "Tramonto Spaventoso," the playlist shares the title of his upcoming exhibition at Gagosian, Beverly Hills, opening April 22.

#SpencerSweeney: "Queue," an exhibition of new paintings by Spencer Sweeney, reopened today at Gagosian, Davies Street, London. In a series of new paintings made in his Manhattan studio over the past year, Sweeney turns his attention to the human face, enlarging the head beyond life-size. This body of work unites the artist’s psychological musings with images of contemporary urban life: http://on.gagosian.com/Grj4BOS __________ Installation view, "Spencer Sweeney: Queue," Gagosian, Davies Street, London, February 22May 1, 2021. Artwork Spencer Sweeney. Photo: Lucy Dawkins

#GagosianSpotlight: "I didn’t intend to make anything newit was an experiment, rather, and about the employment of different materials." Albert Oehlen In a piece for "Gagosian Quarterly," Albert Oehlen met with art historian Christian Malycha to discuss a group of paintings he made in Los Angeles in 2019.

#HirstTakeover: "I like to say something and deny it at the same time." Damien Hirst "Fact Paintings and Fact Sculptures," an exhibition of rarely seen works by Damien Hirst created between 1993 and 2021, opens today at Gagosian, Britannia Street, London. The exhibition marks the first phase of Hirst’s yearlong takeover of the Britannia Street gallery, and sees Hirst as both artist and curator, presenting this deeply personal series of work through his own eyes.... Throughout his storied career, Hirst has confronted the systems of belief that define human existence, from common trust in medicine to the seduction of consumerism. At a moment when the idea of "truth" has never been more tenuous, Hirst’s "Fact Paintings and Sculptures" question the obduracy of fact as a governing principle of society.