Richard Serra: Steve Reich’s “Music for Pieces of Wood”
In this video, musical ensemble Sō Percussion performs Steve Reich’s “Music for Pieces of Wood” inside the exhibition Richard Serra: Running Arcs (For John Cage), 1992, at Gagosian, New York.
Now available
Gagosian Quarterly Winter 2025
The Winter 2025 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring Jeff Koons’s Kissing Lovers (2016–25) on the cover.
Christopher Wool: See Stop Run
Jonathan Griffin traveled to Marfa to see the second iteration of Christopher Wool’s See Stop Run exhibition and to talk with the artist about his latest work, and about the photography series and sculptures that grew from his time in the Texas town.
A Foreign Language By Catherine Lacey: Part Three
The third installment of a short story by Catherine Lacey.
Telluride Film Festival
William Middleton reports from the storied film festival’s 2025 edition, highlighting three key films.
Jeff Koons: The Porcelain Series
With an exhibition of all-new work at Gagosian, New York, in November, Jeff Koons met with Alison McDonald at his New York studio to discuss the processes, inspirations, and metaphysical underpinnings of his latest sculptures and paintings.
The Bigger Picture
Ecosystems: Public Art & Green Space
At the close of summer and on the eve of fall, multidisciplinary thinkers and doers Najee Omar, Tatiana Morin, and Diana McClure tended to a conversation on soil, ecosystems, gentrification, and healing. Highlighting the Community Heroes project, stewarded by the Fort Greene Park Conservancy in Brooklyn, and the Urban Soils Institute’s work on Governors Island in the New York Harbor, the trio dug into the details and philosophical possibilities of public art in New York City’s green spaces.
Walter De Maria: The Singular Experience
Join exhibition curator Donna De Salvo as she discusses her selection of the artist’s rarely seen sculptures, drawings, films, and archival materials in Walter De Maria: The Singular Experience at Gagosian, Le Bourget. Chief among these is Truck Trilogy (2011–17), De Maria’s final sculpture and the centerpiece of the exhibition.
Fashion and Art: Gene Pressman
They All Came to Barneys: A Personal History of the World’s Greatest Store (Viking) is Gene Pressman’s new memoir about the meteoric rise of Barneys New York, from his grandfather Barney’s founding of the store in 1923, to his father Fred’s development of it into a high-end retail space for menswear, all the way to his own time there in the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s, when the specialty store became a nexus in the city’s cultural renaissance. Here, Pressman speaks with the Quarterly’s Derek C. Blasberg about Barneys’s incredible journey and the power of its legacy.
A Novel Approach
Fiona Duncan selects six twentieth- and twenty-first-century novels that center on artists and their milieux, asking: What makes a great art-world novel? Illustrations by Klaus Kremmerz
The Art of Biography
Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife
Francesca Wade’s new biography of Gertrude Stein sifts through the writer and collector’s layered life and legacy. Here, Wade speaks with the Quarterly’s Gillian Jakab.
Game Changer
Poly Styrene
Amie Corry celebrates Poly Styrene, the genre-bending, heterodox lead singer of the pioneering punk band X-Ray Spex.
