David Zwirner

Walter Price: Pearl Lines—the most comprehensive museum exploration to date of Walter Price’s work—opens today, Thursday, August 8 at Walker Art Center. Bursting with lush, vivid colors, Price’s paintings are distinguished by his engagement with history, race, and cultural consciousness. Featuring more than 20 paintings, including never-before-seen canvases, this exhibition is organized around recurring themes and imagery that the artist has explored in recent years. + To celebrate the opening, Walter Price will be in conversation with curator Rosario Güiraldes this evening at 6pm. — Walter Price, Hold the umbrella tight while viewing my rain, 2020

Beginning today, choreographer and scholar Jonathan González is the first artist in residence at David Zwirner as part of an inaugural residency program for dancers at the gallery. For the month of August, González will be in residence at David Zwirner’s 519 W 19th Street space. His residency will conclude with performances on Thursday, August 29, which are free and open to the public. Stay tuned to learn more about these performances in the coming weeks. This residency for dance artists was developed by choreographer, dancer, and artist Sarah Michelson to provide space for dancers to work—and, if they desire, perform—within the gallery space each year.

Forthcoming this September is a new book from David Zwirner Books, Yayoi Kusama: I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers. Preorder your copy: https://lnkd.in/g5DsD9nt Celebrating the visitor experience, this forthcoming publication offers an immersive tour of Kusama’s 2023 exhibition at David Zwirner New York. Illustrating 35 paintings, a larger-scale sculptural installation of pumpkins, a trio of towering, colorful flower sculptures, and a beloved Infinity Mirror Room, I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers is a vivid document with varying perspectives that echo Kusama’s own. I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers includes new scholarship by Robert Slifkin and an essay by Lynn Zelevanksy.

Exceptional Works: Josef Albers • Explore a rare complete set of the artist’s portfolio Formulation: Articulation (1972), which surveys “the realization of the essential ideas in Josef Albers’s works." Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gNkV5pkC Formulation: Articulation (1972) comprises 127 screenprints printed on folded wove paper. Albers spent roughly two years working on the prints, which are based on a range of works from throughout his life including sandblasted glass works from his Bauhaus period, woodcuts from his time at Black Mountain College, and countless Variant/Adobe and Homage to the Square paintings, among others.

Beginning Saturday, July 20, visitors to Tate can participate in creating a large-scale collaborative work with Oscar Murillo as part of his project The flooded garden. Inspired by Claude Monet’s paintings of his flower garden in Giverny, The flooded garden transforms the Tate’s Turbine Hall into an enormous painting garden. Works from Murillo’s Surge series, upon which this presentation builds, are concurrently on display in the museum’s South Tank. + Stay tuned for an exhibition opening this fall at #DavidZwirnerLondon, Oscar Murillo: A balancing act between collapse and spirit. —⁣⁣⁣⁣ Installation views, #OscarMurillo, The flooded garden, Tate Modern, London, 2024. Photo by Tim Bowditch and Reinis Lismanis

✈️ Barbara Kruger has been selected to create a new commission for JFK Airport’s new Terminal 6. As The New York Times announced today: “The $4.2 billion facility in Queens will showcase the largest number of works of any New York airport by major figures from the United States, including Nina Chanel Abney, Teresita Fernandez, Charles Gaines and Barbara Kruger, alongside emerging international talents such as Felipe Baeza from Mexico, Kerstin Brätsch from Germany, and Uman, born in Somalia (all now living in New York).” The project is organized through Public Art Fund and is scheduled to open in 2026. —⁣⁣⁣⁣ Installation view, Barbara Kruger: Belief + Doubt, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, 2012—Ongoing. Photo by Cathy Carver

The largest-ever UK survey of American painter Kerry James Marshall, curated by Mark Godfrey, debuts next year featuring 70 works, including a new series of paintings made especially for the show as well as Marshall’s commemorative sculpture Wake (2003–2005), which evolves each time it is exhibited. This survey exhibition will travel across Europe through 2027, with destinations including: 📍 Royal Academy of Arts | Opening September 20, 2025 📍 Kunsthaus Zürich | Opening February 27, 2026 📍 Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris | Opening September 18, 2026 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gc7J7sBD —⁣⁣⁣⁣ Kerry James Marshall, Untitled (Studio), 2014

🟡⚫️ Yayoi Kusama’s tallest bronze pumpkin sculpture to date was unveiled today by Serpentine and The Royal Parks. The sculpture will remain on view at the Round Pond in Kensington Gardens through Sunday, November 3: https://lnkd.in/gd5qsA8q #YayoiKusama: ”I am sending to London with love my giant pumpkin. Since my childhood pumpkins have been a great comfort to me, they are such tender things to touch, so appealing in color and form. They are humble and amusing at the same time and speak to me of the joy of living.” Yayoi Kusama, Pumpkin, 2024 ©YAYOI KUSAMA. Photo by George Darrell

Save the date: Josh Smith and Frank Walter at The Drawing Center | Learn more and register interest: https://lnkd.in/gvzbUX5b Launching next Thursday, July 11 is an exclusive online exhibition celebrating the simultaneous solo shows of Frank Walter and Josh Smith at The Drawing Center in New York, open now through September 15. The presentation will feature a selection of available works and underscore the unique connection between the artists.

Just announced: From June to September 2025, for its final exhibition before closing for renovation, the Centre Pompidou has invited artist Wolfgang Tillmans to create an exhibition displayed across more than 6,000 square meters of the museum’s beloved Public Information Library (BPI). Tillmans’s intervention—which marks the first time that the then-vacated library will be used in this way—is conceived as an echo of the museum as an emblematic monument. In this presentation, Tillmans will transform the #BPIPompidou into a site-specific exhibition dedicated to his multi-faceted approach to making. —⁣⁣⁣⁣ Portrait by Will Ragozzino (2023)