Gagosian Gallery

We went to view the Roy Litchenstein collection. Unique and interesting works by an influential artist of the 20^th century. We got to see private works that were not available to the public before.
60% of art projects depend on light. This gallery turns out to be the perfect place to host this collection. The natural light comes in the large windows and makes the collection come alive.
Unfortunately, patrons can not take pictures of other works. You can only take pictures of the main work featured in the large room.
Security guards not the best trained — they need better customer service training.
Free.

How was it?: Awesome
Why did it get three stars: The employees.
The snobbish and condescending attitude of the people at the desk completely turned me off. What is the point of working in a art exhibit but you don’t like answering questions? The Gagosian Gallery hire men and women who look like former Abercrombie & Fitch models (I like) but have the ” don’t want to answer questions I will just point and not speak routine,” which was not cool!
The Art:
Beautiful just remarkable. Sadly I could not absorb the painting and sculptures because I went there for a class assignment.
Will I go here again? Ehh, it was nice but not worth the travel from Queens.

Inexplicably closed on Saturday at 4pm, with no signs or excuses. What an odd way to run an art gallery. Very disappointing.

Great shows and amazing catalogs. they are slow to ship those pricey catalogs. Excellent gallery. great lighting and plenty of space for display of larger paintings.

One of the more popular galleries on 24^th, especially on the weekends. Came here a week or so ago to see Richard Serra’s stuff.
Beautiful open space that allows for a lot of natural light to come in from the windows above. Great for large-​scale works.
While visiting I did not have an issue with any of the guards here. Maybe I just got lucky.

The guards are, for the most part, total dicks. Don’t try to do anything shady there, like, oh, educate high school students about contemporary art, unless you want people in blazers following you around like you’re going to somehow pocket a fucking Richard Serra sculpture.
But hey, where else are you going to see this shit for free?

This review is coming late but I saw the Basquiat exhibition in March and was awestruck. The art and the space itself was beyond incredible. I loved that even though people were coming in and out rapidly, it never felt crowded, stark, or pretentious as people can sometimes describe galleries to be. An amazing, accessible by all ages gallery situated in Chelsea.

First time visiting here for the new Koon’s exhibit.

Excellent gallery. Saw a great Picasso exhibit there a few years ago. Great lighting and plenty of space for display of larger paintings. We went this time to see the Basquiat exhibit. I had heard a lot about the genius of Basquiat, but now having seen his «work» in person I fail to see how it rises past the level of third grade water color scribblings. Sorry.

Oh my ART !
What can be better than a cloudy day spent wandering through the galleries in Chelsea? Going into the Gagosian on 24^th and being met with an entire gallery full of the works of Basquiat, yowza !
Prolific, inspiring, AWESOME.

Basquiat exhibit is aaaaaaaaammmmmmmmmmaaaaaaaaaazzzziiiiiinnnnggggggg­ggg. I’m a huge fan of his and had only seen a handful of paintings in real life prior to this exhibit. The collection was unbelievable. There were so many pieces spanning his entire career. Extremely famous paintings, and some not so famous ones. I highly recommend it!

Just visited this location yesterday for the Basquiat retrospective they have on view through early April. I’ve been wanting to see a Basquiat exhibit for quite some time, ever since 05 when I missed the opportunity at the Brooklyn Museum. It was really great, its a huge space and there are a lot of works on display (Side note, if your going to this particular exhibit, you’ll find a really great Basquiat documentary on Netflix). I would go on a weekday if possible, I went on Friday during the day, and it was still a bit crowded.
As far as the venue goes, its an excellent space. It has tons of available natural light, windows run along the top of the exhibition walls. There are also sky lights, in slits in the ceiling, that span from one side of the room to the other.
All in all a great venue to see an artist you may be interested in, and like most (if not all) galleries in this neighborhood entry is free.

Richard Phillips had a show here with paintings of Lindsay Lohan and Sasha Grey. They were very realistically done and sexy, no pretenses to the quality. Gagosian Gallery caters to guys with tons of money and I’m sure many of them would like to own huge paintings of starlets in bikinis. Why not? But I’m just a browser myself and my tastes lie elsewhere. There were also videos of the actresses that were too long to be music videos and not enough narrative to be short films. Just the girls moving around on beaches or mountains or nice houses. At the end of the video the titles said «Lindsay Lohan [or Sasha Grey, in the Sasha Grey video],» then «Gagosian Gallery,» then «Richard Phillips.» Maybe I got the order wrong but it was those three, fading from one to the next. So it was like a commercial but you couldn’t tell what the commercial was for. That’s what made it art, if not very good art.

this is a really expensive place to buy paintings. good place to hang out and do cocaine.

Just awesome. Came here doing the High Line Art Gallery Exhibits just awesome.

Big name gallery for Big art. Definitely an Establishment location, but that means you can see really good art — and for free, too! No wine at the opening though, booo.
The Richard Serra show that opened last night is great though. Loved wandering the vertiginous metal labyrinths. I’m generally a fan of his; love what he does with mass and space…
It was well-​attended, but not as crowded as I’d expected, and the crowd ranged from smelly unshaven types, to people who stopped in after work, to pretty things dressed to the nines in haute couture, to Money in Suits.
The space itself is large, airy and modern.

Going to an opening at Larry Gagosian’s gallery is like going to a Steve Jobs apple keynote presentation. Meaning, some fancy new thing is revealed to the world and there is often oohs and aahs followed by coordinated group masturbation, as the uniquely New York artist-​dealer symbiotic relationship once again succeeds in selling some new viewpoint, or measure of aesthetic value.
That being said, there is often cool stuff here.

Ack, this review is kind of moot seeing as the Yayoi Kusama is now over… still, the exhibit was awesome with a mind-​blowing installation piece involving mirrors and darkness and light. Track her down. The gallery itself is spacious and the staff is friendly. The exhibit was fascinating enough that I’d be interested in checking out the next show.

Lovely Yayoi Kusama exhibit at the moment fills the space inside with a large pumpkin/​apple spotted room, multiple paintings, including a self-​portrait, and my favorite part was the piece where you could walk into her piece of Aftermath of Obliteration of Eternity (amazing), an infinity room for two.
No photos in majority of the gallery, but free to the public.
Space itself isn’t a bad space, although in my opinion it could be environmentally more friendly, but the sparse white, cavernous warehouse space is well-​patrolled (four guards when I was there), and decently arranged.

This is not the Picasso exhibit, but instead a phenomenal exhibit by Yayoi Kusama.
The infinity room was particularly fantastic and the enormous pumpkins with outdoor display were also quite interesting, though the guard was a bit *ahem* unfriendly in yelling at another woman (literally 10 feet away) to not get to close.
Check it out.