Summer 2025 Issue

Now available

Gagosian Quarterly
Summer 2025

The Summer 2025 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring Pablo Picasso’s Nu accoudé (1961) on the cover.

<p>Pablo Picasso’s <em>Nu accoudé</em> (1961), on the cover of <em>Gagosian Quarterly</em>, Summer 2025</p> — Pablo Picasso’s *Nu accoudé* (1961), on the cover of *Gagosian Quarterly*, Summer 2025

Pablo Picasso’s Nu accoudé (1961), on the cover of Gagosian Quarterly, Summer 2025

In this issue we celebrate Picasso: Tête-à-tête, presented in partnership with Paloma Picasso at Gagosian, by sharing Michael Cary’s essay about the historical context that inspired the exhibition alongside a conversation from 1932 between the legendary artist and his friend, the well-known publisher E. Tériade.

The Summer 2025 Quarterly profiles female visionaries, including the remarkable Lorraine O’Grady, a trailblazer who fearlessly challenged conventions. Rachel Whiteread discusses the challenges of creating public sculpture while engaging deeply with emotional and historical complexities. We explore the rebellious life of Rosemary Woodruff Leary, who helped shape the psychedelic movement of the 1960s. Novelist Lauren Elkin speaks with Julie Curtiss about motherhood, suburbia, and surrealism ahead of her exhibition in Paris.

A special section dedicated to architecture includes features on Alexander Calder, David Chipperfield, Berthold Lubetkin, Wutopia Lab, and more. Excerpts from a new and expanded edition of Francesco Bonami’s mind-bending and wildly entertaining “autobiography” of Maurizio Cattelan shed light on the artist’s life and provocative works.

Elsewhere in this issue: Joshua Chuang contextualizes Paul McCartney’s 1960s photographs, taken during the height of Beatlemania; Péjú Oshin interviews multidisciplinary filmmaker Jenn Nkiru; and Hélène Cixous responds to Hans Ulrich Obrist’s questionnaire.

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Picasso: Tête-à-tête

On April 18, the exhibition Picasso: Tête-à-tête opened at Gagosian, New York. Including works from 1896 to 1972, the full span of the artist’s career, the show is presented in partnership with Paloma Picasso, the artist’s daughter. Here, Michael Cary, one of the organizers of the exhibition, traces the historical precedents that informed the conversational nature of the curation. He also introduces a translation of a 1932 interview with Picasso by the publisher and critic E. Tériade, often quoted in English in part but not in full.

Behind the Art
A Foreigner Called Picasso

Join president of the Picasso Museum, Paris, Cécile Debray; curator, writer, biographer, and historian Annie Cohen-Solal; art historian Vérane Tasseau; and Gagosian director Serena Cattaneo Adorno as they discuss A Foreigner Called Picasso. Organized in association with the Musée national Picasso–Paris and the Palais de la Porte Dorée–Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration, Paris, the exhibition reframes our perception of Picasso and focuses on his status as a permanent foreigner in France.

A Foreigner Called Picasso

Cocurator of the exhibition A Foreigner Called Picasso, at Gagosian, New York, Annie Cohen-Solal writes about the genesis of the project, her commitment to the figure of the outsider, and Picasso’s enduring relevance to matters geopolitical and sociological.

Fashion and Art: Pieter Mulier

Pieter Mulier, creative director of Alaïa, presented his second collection for the legendary house in Paris in January 2022. After the presentation, Mulier spoke with Derek Blasberg about the show’s inspirations, including a series of ceramics by Pablo Picasso, and about his profound reverence for the intimacy and artistry of the atelier.

The Art of Biography: Sir John Richardson’s “The Minotaur Years”

Pepe Karmel celebrates the release of A Life of Picasso IV: The Minotaur Years, 1933–1943, the final installment of Sir John Richardson’s magisterial biography.

Game Changer
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler

Michael Cary pays homage to the visionary dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1884–1979).

Game Changer
Grace McCann Morley

Berit Potter pays homage to the ardent museum leader who transformed San Francisco’s relationship to modern art.

The New World of Charlotte Perriand

Inspired by a visit to the Fondation Louis Vuitton’s exhibition Charlotte Perriand: Inventing a New World, William Middleton explores the life of this modernist pioneer and her impact on the worlds of design, art, and architecture.

Picasso and Maya: An Interview with Diana Widmaier-Ruiz-Picasso

Diana Widmaier-Ruiz-Picasso curated an exhibition at Gagosian, Paris, in 2017–18 titled Picasso and Maya: Father and Daughter. To celebrate the exhibition, a publication was published in 2019; the comprehensive reference publication explores the figure of Maya Ruiz-Picasso, Pablo Picasso’s beloved eldest daughter, throughout Picasso’s work and chronicles the loving relationship between the artist and his daughter. In this video, Widmaier-Ruiz-Picasso details her ongoing interest in the subject and reflects on the process of making the book.

Visions of the Self: Jenny Saville on Rembrandt

Jenny Saville reveals the process behind her new self-portrait, painted in response to Rembrandt’s masterpiece Self-Portrait with Two Circles.

In Conversation
Claude Picasso and John Richardson

Picasso biographer Sir John Richardson sits down with Claude Picasso to discuss Claude’s photography, his enjoyment of vintage car racing, and the future of scholarship related to his father, Pablo Picasso.

Art and Food

Mary Ann Caws and Charles Stuckey discuss the presence of food and the dining table in the history of modern art.