Lucian Freud And His Circle Surveyed In Two London Exhibitions
A noted John Deakin photograph of Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud in Soho in 1963
1 December 2022
Gagosian
New Exhibition Exploring Freud, Bacon, Auerbach And Andrews Announced
A new exhibition, Friends and Relations: Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Michael Andrews, has been announced by Gagosian London.
10 November 2022
Damien Hirst Exhibits Groundbreaking Formaldehyde Sculptures At Gagosian
“I wanted a shark that’s big enough to eat you and in a large enough amount of liquid so that you could imagine you were in there with it” – Damien Hirst
2 March 2022
My Art Diary And Other Thoughts February 2022 – Revd Jonathan Evens
9/11, made Rachel Feinstein want to use religious iconography in her work again. The result is Mirror, her current art exhibition at Gagosian.
9 February 2022
Jeff Koons Quits Gagosian and Zwirner For Exclusive Pace Gallery Representation
Jeff Koons has left his long term galleries Gagosian and David Zwirner to be exclusively represented by Pace.
27 April 2021
Rachel Whiteread: A Beguiling New Exhibition At Gagosian – Marina Vaizey
The Gagosian Gallery on Grosvenor Hill is a subtly magnificent slab of grey. particularly appropriate for the art of Rachel Whiteread.
21 April 2021
Edmund de Waal: Winter Pots
Gagosian presents an exhibition of new works by acclaimed artist and author Edmund de Waal, made during lockdown earlier this year.
Tuesday–Saturday 10–6 by appointment
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.
8 June 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.
29 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.
21 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.
15 January 2020
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.
20 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.
8 October 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.
13 August 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… Read More
10 June 2019
Michael Craig-Martin Sculpture Unveiled At Gagosian Britannia Street
Sculptural works by Michael Craig-Martin have been unveiled at Gagosian in Britannia Street.
30 May 2019
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.
16 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”.
13 April 2019
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.
7 November 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
22 October 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
23 September 2018
Joe Bradley: Day World
In his paintings, drawings, sculptures, and mixed-media works, Joe Bradley has produced a visual language that oscillates freely between personal and art historical references.
Tuesday–Saturday 10–6
Urs Fischer: Dasha
Dasha (2018) is a larger-than-life-size wax candle depicting Dasha Zhukova, a personal friend of the Urs Fischer.
Tuesday–Saturday 10–6
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.
10 September 2018
Franz West: Sisyphos Sculptures
Three large papier-mâché sculptures by Franz West, from the Sisyphos series (2002).
Tue–Sat 10-6
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.
4 June 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.
18 May 2018
Katharina Grosse: Prototypes of Imagination
Following her acclaimed installation This Drove My Mother Up the Wall at South London Gallery last autumn, Gagosian is showing “Prototypes of Imagination,” an exhibition of new paintings by Katharina Grosse.
Tues-Sat 10-6
Richard Serra vs Hope To Nope – Edward Lucie-Smith
Sometimes two shows come along that seem perfectly timed to contradict one another.
10 April 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… Read More
19 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.
14 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.
2 February 2018