Lehmann Maupin

Art / 9 Sep 2018

Dream weaver: artist Liza Lou on the teamwork behind her beadwork

In the blue, even expanse above Los Angeles, clouds are rare – yet they have been a recent preoccupation for local artist Liza Lou. ‘If you’re someone who watches clouds, they happen here more often than you think,’ she...

Art / 27 Jul 2018

Watch this space: the best NYC art galleries to know

NYC has some of the best art galleries in the world‚ but with over 1,500 to choose from, the sheer number is overwhelming. Not to worry, we’ve narrowed them down to some of our blue-chip favourites. David Zwirner Cologne native...

Art / 3 Apr 2017

Do you have a minute? Erwin Wurm debuts a new series of short-lived sculptures

In conjunction with the Austrian artist Erwin Wurm’s 20th anniversary of his one-minute sculptures - for which he is best known - New York’s Lehmann Maupin gallery is showing ’Ethics demonstrated in geometrical order’, displaying Wurm’s newest one-minute series and...

Art / 15 Sep 2016

’La Grand Sortie’: Alex Prager dances into Lehmann Maupin’s Lower East Side location

It’s the Paris Opera Ballet’s opening night and Émilie Cozette, the company’s étoile – the French version of the prima ballerina – is set to make her big debut after an unexplained hiatus. The curtain rises, and a rendition of...

Art / 9 May 2016

Love note: ahead of her sabbatical, Tracey Emin presents ’Stone Love’ in NYC

No one could ever accuse Tracey Emin of resting on her laurels. Hot on the heels of unveiling new work at Lehmann Maupin in Hong Kong, the artist has followed that effort up with ‘Stone Love’ at the gallery’s New...

Art / 23 Mar 2016

Love stone: Tracey Emin embraces marriage at Art Basel Hong Kong

There’s been much furor ahead of Tracey Emin’s latest exhibition, ‘I Cried Because I Love You’, not least because it is her first solo venture in greater China – and rumoured to be her last before she embarks on a...

Art / 26 Jan 2016

’PriV%te’: Tony Oursler’s multimedia masks at Lehmann Maupin, Hong Kong

’I’ve always been interested in Big Brother and the craziness around surveillance since the beginning of the very first cameras that were brought into play,’ says Tony Oursler, referring to London’s early CCTV network, known as the Ring of Steel...

Art / 18 Jan 2016

High-camp: a pair of Catherine Opie solo shows at Lehmann Maupin, NY

New York gallery Lehmann Maupin is going big with its solo debut for photographer Catherine Opie, giving over its Chelsea and Lower East Side galleries to two separate Opie shows. Opie built her reputation shooting lesbian, gay and transgender subjects...

Art / 11 Nov 2015

Precious stone: Teresita Fernandez wields the power of malachite for new series

Teresita Fernandez has had a big year. From her monumental, canopy-like installation Fata Morgana, composed of mirror-polished metal discs, which drew a record number of daily admirers to New York’s Madison Square Park over the summer, to the thoughtful installation...

Art / 3 Jul 2015

Powerful statements, modest means: Robin Rhode’s ’Borne Frieze’ opens at Lehmann Maupin

’Exercise goal achieved!’ cries Robin Rhode, peering down at the Apple Watch on his wrist and then raising both arms in triumph. ’I did it – phew!’ But there’s no stopping him. The South African-born, Berlin-based artist is...

Art / 21 May 2015

Juergen Teller and Xiang Jing dish up desire and detachment in joint show at Lehmann Maupin

Provocative works are nothing new in contemporary art today, but Lehmann Maupin’s intriguing pairing of erotic food photographs by German photographer Juergen Teller and Chinese sculptor Xiang Jing’s unadorned, seemingly disengaged nudes offers a thoughtful perspective on the complexities of...

Art / 3 Mar 2014

Erwin Wurm unveils his latest cast of characters at Lehmann Maupin in New York

We’ve come to expect nothing short of the bewildering when it comes to the work of sculptor Erwin Wurm. The Austrian artist is presenting three new series of works in ’Synthesa’, his freshly opened second showing at New York’s Lehmann...