The Spring 2025 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring Cy Twombly’sPaesaggio (1986) on the cover. 

Last fall, Taryn Simon debuted an interactive sculpture entitled Kleroterion (2024). Based on a device from the beginnings of democracy in Athens, the work was installed at Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, New York. As part of that presentation, Simon participated in a panel discussion with Nora Lawrence, Tomás González Olavarría, and Philip Lindsay about democracy, sortition, and art’s place in politics.

Walton Ford’s exhibition Tutto opens on March 6, 2025, at Gagosian, New York. Here, the artist reflects on the life and passions of Marchesa Luisa Casati, the twentieth-century muse and patron of the arts.

In conjunction with the exhibition Adriana Varejão: Don’t Forget, We Come From the Tropics at the Hispanic Society Museum & Library, New York, Laura Dias Leite produced a video directed by Luisa Marques in which the artist discusses the genesis of the show. The exhibition debuts the latest works in Varejão’s Plate series (2011–), which, shown alongside historic ceramic plates from the museum’s collection, pose questions about aesthetic hierarchies.

Jenny Saville reflects on Cy Twombly’s poetic engagement with the world, with time and tension, and with growth in this excerpt from her Marion Barthelme Lecture, presented at the Menil Collection, Houston, in 2024.

Filmmaker and author Lisa Immordino Vreeland has created a new documentary on the life and art of Jean Cocteau. Narrated by Josh O’Connor, the film makes the case for the enduring relevance and prophetic poetry of Cocteau’s singular life and art. Here, Josh Zajdman reflects on the urgent necessity of engaging with the poet, filmmaker, artist, playwright, and novelist’s uncategorizable existence.

Sam Wasson brings his deep knowledge of cinema, Hollywood, and film noir to Alex Israel’s new paintings of Los Angeles.

On the occasion of the exhibition Thomas Schütte: Major Sculptures, at Gagosian, New York, Gagosian Art Advisory’s Bernard Lagrange talks about the sculptures featured in the show. The installation includes six sculptures from the Frauen (Women) series and the related Torso (2005).

For over three decades, avant-garde theater and opera director Robert Wilson and actor Isabelle Huppert have shared a forceful, profound collaboration. Their latest piece is Mary Said What She Said, an almost unbelievably demanding ninety-minute monologue by Huppert that is based on the life of Mary, Queen of Scots. Opening first in Paris in 2019, and performed last spring at London’s Barbican Centre to critical acclaim, Mary Said What She Said will have its American premiere at NYU Skirball, New York, on February 27. Author William Middleton caught up with the actor and the director in Paris.

The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), currently based in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, marked its thirtieth year in 2024. Here, Melinda Lang, ISCP’s director of programs and exhibitions, speaks with Gagosian director Sarah Jones about the history and ethos of the visual arts residency program, as well as its anniversary exhibition, Somewhere Inside: ISCP and the Studio, on view through March 7, 2025.

Bartolomeo Sala considers the brief yet revolutionary dreams of Arte Povera. On the occasion of a retrospective at the Bourse de Commerce, Paris, he explores the historical conditions that gave rise to the radical midcentury movement and the warnings we might glean today from its legacy.

Join Gagosian for a conversation between Derrick Adams and Ekow Eshun, author, curator, and chair of the commissioning group for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, London. The pair discuss Adams’s latest paintings depicting visions of Black Americana—featured in the exhibition Situation Comedy at Gagosian, Davies Street, London—within the context of British contemporary culture.