26 November 2020
8 June 2020
London’s Galleries And Auction Houses To Reopen From 15 June
The first of the London mega galleries have announced they are to reopen after a three-month lockdown period. White Cube and Gagosian will open by timed appointment to comply with social distancing measures from next week.
29 January 2020
American Pastoral Art Celebrated In New London Show – Edward Lucie-Smith
The new American Pastoral exhibition at Gagosian’s Britannia Street space is of museum quality, even if what’s on show doesn’t always seem to relate to the title.
21 January 2020
West End Gallery Mixed Bag – Edward Lucie-Smith
The 2020 art world is coming sluggishly to life and some early offerings are, it must be said, a bit disappointing.
15 January 2020
Richard Artschwager: A Display Of Cabinet of Curiosities – Gagosian London
Live in Your Head: Richard Artschwager’s Cabinet of Curiosities is an exhibition spanning the five decades of Artschwager’s career, and his first in London since 2003.
20 October 2019
Sterling Ruby: Gagosian – Britannia Street – Edward Lucie-Smith
The main items in Sterling Ruby’s exhibition at Gagosian Britannia Street (his first solo show with the gallery here in London) are huge works from a series called ACTS (2006-2018). In this case, the word has no direct reference to Holy Scripture.
8 October 2019
Cy Twombly, Gagosian – Song Dong, Pace – Edward Lucie-Smith
Two London shows from big commercial galleries reflect different but related aspects of the current international scene. One, at Gagosian Grosvenor Hill, is for the internationally known American artist Cy Twombly.
13 August 2019
Sterling Ruby To Feature At Gagosian Over London Frieze Week
Sculptures by Sterling Ruby will be the feature Britannia Street exhibition at Gagosian over Frieze Week.
10 June 2019
Francis Bacon – The Power Of The Illicit – Edward Lucie-Smith
The new Francis Bacon show at Gagosian Grosvenor Hill is something of a landmark event. It contains a sumptuous array of top-quality works. Only a very few of these come from museum collections, so see them while you can. The show is brutally frank about Bacon’s homosexuality, and about the role that his sexual orientation […]
30 May 2019
Michael Craig-Martin Sculpture Unveiled At Gagosian Britannia Street
Sculptural works by Michael Craig-Martin have been unveiled at Gagosian in Britannia Street.
Sean Scully National Gallery – Rembrandt and Now Gagosian – Edward Lucie-Smith
At first glance, the Sean Scully show that just opened at the National Gallery in London couldn’t be more different from the exhibition not far away at Gagosian Grosvenor Hill. It features just one artist, rather than a series of well-known names.
13 April 2019
Richter and Snyder Two London Spring Exhibitions – Edward Lucie-Smith
The Gerhard Richter show currently in the smaller of Gagosian’s three London galleries is maybe best described as “a bit of a tease”.
7 November 2018
Bradley, Burden, Fischer and Pascali Four London Shows – Edward Lucie-Smith
Here, lumped together for the sake of convenience in an overcrowded Autumn season, are four London galleries.
22 October 2018
Katharina Grosse Interview – Grand Palais FIAC 2018 – Virginie Puertolas-Syn
Artist Katharina Grosse is the Gagosian guest of honour at the FIAC this 2018
23 September 2018
Chris Burden: Gagosian Unveils Two Large-scale Works For Frieze Week
Chris Burden ‘Measured’, an exhibition of two large-scale works 1 Ton Crane Truck (2009) and Porsche with Meteorite (2013) will be unveiled at Gagosian Britannia Street
10 September 2018
10 September 2018
10 September 2018
Urs Fischer Immortalises Roman Abramovich Ex Wife Dasha Zhukova In Wax
The Swiss contemporary artist Urs Fischer has created a life-size wax sculpture of the art collector, curator and director of the Garage museum in Moscow, Dasha Zhukova.
11 June 2018
4 June 2018
Howard Hodgkin’s Last Stand? Late Paintings Gagosian – Edward Lucie-Smith
The current show of late paintings by Howard Hodgkin at Gagosian Grosvenor Hill is, for me, a melancholy occasion.
18 May 2018
Katharina Grosse: Kaleidoscopic Matter And Energy – Zoltan Alexander
Monumental and breathtaking are the words that first come to my mind when I think of Katharina Grosse’s site-specific installations.
25 April 2018
10 April 2018
Richard Serra vs Hope To Nope – Edward Lucie-Smith
Sometimes two shows come along that seem perfectly timed to contradict one another.
19 February 2018
Nancy Rubins: A Woman Of Conviction – Gagosian – Edward Lucie-Smith
Nancy Rubins’ exuberant exhibition at Gagosian Britannia Street comes as a great relief in the current epoch of self-righteous #MeToo feminism. Essentially it consists of four very large sculptures, accompanied by two equally large wall drawings, The drawings – so-called – are non-figurative, and need not detain one for long. They are essentially playful works, […]
14 February 2018
Damien Hirst Goes Off The Grid To Reinvent The Spot
Damien Hirst the Turner Prize-winning former YBA has unveiled a sample of his evolving painting style, and it’s not Bacon inspired like his skull series nor is it exotic like his ‘Parrot’ paintings. The new works hark back to his original ‘Spot’ canvases painted in the 1980s.
2 February 2018
Glenn Brown: Fragments Repeated With Twiddly Bits Added – Edward Lucie-Smith
The more I looked at Glenn Brown’s latest show, the more I felt that I was both the right and the wrong person to be attempting to review it.
23 January 2018
Glenn Brown: Unsung Hero Gets The Gagosian Seal Of Approval
Glenn Brown’s first major exhibition in London since 2009 at Gagosian is one of the most highly anticipated exhibitions of the new year.
30 October 2017
Paris Art Exhibitions Autumn 2017 Black Flags, Bears And Reflections
While Touring around Paris attending the 44th edition of FIAC at the Grand Palais, Zoltan Alexander encountered countless art exhibitions throughout the city.
1 June 2017
Dan Colen To Be Represented By Lévy Gorvy In New International Partnership
The American artist Dan Colen (b. 1979, New Jersey) is to be represented by Dominique Lévy and Brett Gorvy. This marks a conjoining of galleries which also exhibit the artist’s work. In the past Gagosian and Massimo de Carlo, Milan had an exclusive deal with the artist.
Ed Ruscha Launches Frieze Week With New Paintings Exhibition At Gagosian London
Extremes and In-betweens is the latest exhibition by the American painter Ed Ruscha which opened last night to a crowd that included Tracey Emin, Anish Kapoor,Michael Craig-Martin, Ron Arad, Alan Jones and Monica Lewinsky.
Richard Prince And Gagosian Sued By Makeup Artist Over Instagram Copyright infringement
Ashley Salazar, AKA Mynxii White is suing the artist Richard Prince and The Gagosian Gallery through the US District Court, in the Central District of California. The case revolves around a two-year-old photograph of the makeup artist who claims that Prince appropriated her intellectual property, without being consulted as the subject for a $100,000 work of art. The lawsuit was filed 15 […]
22 August 2016
Richard Serra: NJ-2, Rounds: Equal Weight, Unequal Measure, Rotate
Three recent large-scale steel sculptures by international sculptor Richard Serra. The Davies Stree gallery is showing Drawings by Serra. Richard Serra is one of the most significant artists of his generation. He has produced large-scale, site-specific sculptures for architectural, urban and landscape settings spanning the globe, from Iceland to New Zealand. Serra’s first solo gallery […]