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Airing tomorrow on youtube.com/gagosian! As part of Sessions, a new spin-off of Gagosian Premieres, American experimental musician and composer Laura Ortman (@ortwoman ) performs “ROSINBOWS” inside “Art in Process: Part One”—a survey of works by Nam June Paik spanning his career—at Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, New York. Follow the link in our bio to learn more. __________ #NamJunePaik #GagosianSessions #GagosianPremieres #Gagosian Artwork © Nam June Paik Estate; "ROSINBOWS," written and performed by Laura Ortman, mixed by YonGsoo Lee; Video: Pushpin Films (@pushpinfilms )

“In all my images I try to allow both, the threat and destruction but also the beauty.” —Andreas Gursky An exhibition of new and recent photographs by Andreas Gursky closes this Friday, July 29, at Gagosian, 541 West 24th Street, New York. Gursky’s large-scale photographs evoke the global flow of information, the chaos of contemporary life competing with the classical desire for order. He portrays the visual extremes of the present moment with an objective eye, capturing built and natural environments on a grand scale in richly detailed images of autobahns and cruise ships, mountains and waterfalls. Follow the link in our bio to learn more. __________ #AndreasGursky #Gagosian Installation video, "Andreas Gursky," Gagosian, 541 West 24th Street, New York, May 5–July 29, 2022. Artwork © Andreas Gursky/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York. Video: Pushpin Films (@pushpinfilms )

"The simply diagrammatic can never capture a concept. And so I polish and refine." —Hao Liang Wishing a happy birthday to Hao Liang (@hao___liang ), who was born on this day, July 25, in Chengdu, China. On the occasion, we're featuring a "Gagosian Quarterly" video with Hao in his Beijing studio. In this, he discusses the inspiration behind "Poetics of Li Shangyin," a recent series of paintings rendered in ink and color on silk. Evoking the tradition of literati painting, these works picture imagery conceived in response to passages of poetry by the ninth-century Chinese poet Li Shangyin. Follow the link in our bio to watch the full video. _________ #HaoLiang #Gagosian Artwork © Hao Liang; Video: NEEDFILM; production supervisor: Yu Hongbo; director and editor: Ji Hang; videography: Chen Zhongpeng, Tang Yuxuan; producer: Wang Zhuo

"It is a matter of harmonizing these movements, thus arriving at a new possibility for beauty." —Alexander Calder Alexander Calder was born in Lawnton, Pennsylvania, on this day, July 22, in 1898. On the occasion, we’re sharing a video about the recent installation of Calder’s monumental sculpture “Flying Dragon” (1975) at Place Vendôme in Paris. In this video, Gagosian director Serena Cattaneo Adorno (@serenacattaneo ) details the process and importance of this ambitious project, which exemplifies Calder’s capacity to invest a powerful visual dynamism in his work regardless of scale. Follow the link in our bio to watch the full video. _________ #AlexanderCalder #Gagosian @calderfoundation Artwork © 2022 Calder Foundation, New York/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Video: Pushpin Films (@pushpinfilms )

In a recent video for "Gagosian Quarterly," Y.Z. Kami and curator Steven Henry Madoff sit down in Kami’s studio to discuss the artist’s exhibition at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (@musacmuseo ) in Spain. Entitled "Y.Z. Kami: De forma silenciosa/In a Silent Way," the survey features portraits; images of buildings, both sacred and ordinary; a sculptural installation of loose bricks inscribed with texts; and recent dreamlike abstractions. Follow the link in our bio to watch the full video. __________ #YZKami #GagosianQuarterly #Gagosian Artwork © Y.Z. Kami; video: Pushpin Films (@pushpinfilms )

"At least for this part of my life, farming has not only fostered my creative process, but also kind of protected it." —Dan Colen Happy birthday to Dan Colen, who was born on this day, July 13, in Leonia, New Jersey! On the occasion, we are featuring a video in which Colen speaks about his inspiration in founding Sky High Farm (@skyhighfarmhudsonvalley ) in 2011, as a way to address food insecurity and improve access to fresh, nutritious food for underserved communities in New York. In a recent article, “i-D” (@i_d ) wrote about Sky High Farm Workwear (@skyhighfarmworkwear ), Colen’s new clothing brand that supports the farm’s mission to proliferate food sovereignty. Follow the link in our bio to read the article, or watch the full “Quarterly” video. _________ #DanColen #Gagosian Video: Christopher Burke Studios/Shootart

"CANDYLADYBLACK," an exhibition of new paintings by Amanda Williams (@awstudioart ) from the series "What Black Is This, You Say?" closes this today, July 8, at Gagosian, Park & 75, New York. On the occasion of the show, the artist spoke with artist Derrick Adams (@derrickadamsny ) about the way she uses color as a tool to examine the complex ways in which race informs our assignment of value to physical, social, and conceptual spaces. Follow the link in our bio to watch the full video. __________ #AmandaWilliams #GagosianQuarterly #Gagosian Artwork © Amanda Williams; video: Pushpin Films (@pushpinfilms )

“What I want to paint is the condition that precedes the moment in which the imagination goes to work and produces mental representations.” —Arakawa Arakawa was born in Nagoya, Japan, on this day, July 6, 1936. On this occasion, we’re sharing a video about Arakawa’s exhibition "Diagrams for the Imagination” at Gagosian, New York, in 2019. In this video, Gagosian director Ealan Wingate discusses the artist’s arrival in New York and examines the importance of maps and language in Arakawa’s work. Follow the link in our bio to watch it in full. _________ #Arakawa #Gagosian Artwork © 2019 Estate of Madeline Gins; Video: Pushpin Films (@pushpinfilms )

"Pretend Gravitas and Dream Aborted Givens," a solo exhibition of new works by Alexandria Smith (@alexandriasmithstudio ) closes tomorrow, June 4, at Gagosian, Park & 75, New York. Organized by Antwaun Sargent (@sirsargent ), this is Smith’s first show with the gallery. In this exhibition, Smith continues her investigation of selfhood alongside the confidences, contradictions, and uncertainties of the queer Black femme body through allegorical assemblage paintings and collage drawings housed in the artist’s custom frames. Follow the link in our bio to learn more. __________ #AlexandriaSmith #Gagosian Installation video, “Alexandria Smith: Pretend Gravitas and Dream Aborted Givens,” Gagosian, Park & 75, April 28–June 4, 2022 © Alexandria Smith. Video: Pushpin Films (@pushpinfilms )

Join Louise Bonnet (@louisebonnetstudio ) in her Los Angeles studio as she works on new paintings ahead of her exhibition "Onslaught," at Gagosian, Hong Kong. Opening today, the exhibition presents paintings that explore our sense of mortification at our own bodies and the way they seem to betray us by leaking, sagging, or failing in various ways. “I’m interested in shame and the body in my paintings,” she states, “and bodily functions bring extra shame and embarrassment.” Follow the link in our bio to watch the video. __________ #LouiseBonnet #Gagosian Artwork © Louise Bonnet; director: Mary Wigmore (@mary_wigmore ); cinematography: Michael Lockridge; editor: Susan Metzger; music: Craig Wedren, Jherek Bischoff, and Jacob Richards

Alexandria Smith (@alexandriasmithstudio ) has curated a selection of films that have influenced her practice for many years, as part of a series copresented by Gagosian and Metrograph (@metrograph ). The program, currently on view in the theater and online, features cinema exploring themes of loneliness through the prism of the fantastical; notions of family through spirituality; and the deconstruction of narrative through the disruption and manipulation of time. Follow the link in our bio to view the full schedule. __________ #AlexandriaSmith #GagosianQuarterly #GagosianMetrograph #Metrograph #Gagosian Artwork © Alexandria Smith. Video: Pushpin Films (@pushpinfilms )

Wishing a happy birthday to Rachel Feinstein, who was born on this day, May 25, in Fort Defiance, Arizona! In this video clip, Feinstein speaks from her New York studio about her recent exhibition "Mirror" at Gagosian, Davies Street, London, and the enduring power of religious iconography. Follow the link in our bio to watch the full video. __________ #Gagosian #RachelFeinstein Artwork © Rachel Feinstein. Video: Emma Charles (@emma__charles )