Gagosian To Open New UES Gallery With Duchamp Show

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — Gagosian, one of the art world's buzziest galleries, is opening a new gallery on the Upper East Side at the end of the month.

The new, ground-floor space, at 980 Madison Ave. between East 76th Street and East 77th Street, will open on April 25 with a show of some of Marcel Duchamp's most famous works, including all of his iconic readymades, like the "Fountain" made from a urinal, which the artist reissued in 1964.

The opening represents a sort of homecoming for the gallery, as well as the artist's work, Larry Gagosian said.

Duchamp's reissued works made their American debut in a 1965 exhibition at the Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery, located at the same address.

The new gallery is opening in that same building, which the Gagosian previously leased as its headquarters from 1987 through 2023, before Bloomberg Philanthropies took over the space.

After initially leaving 980 Madison Ave., the Gagosian opened a gallery a few steps away, at 976 Madison Ave., but now that the art dealer is back in 980 Madison Ave., the space has temporarily closed, according to the art dealer's website.

"It all started with Duchamp, I couldn’t imagine a better artist or a more critical body of work to be the first exhibited in our new gallery at 980 Madison, a building he showed in just over sixty years ago," Gagosian said.

The Duchamp show also coincides with Duchamp’s first retrospective in the United States since 1973, which is on view nearby at the MoMA until Aug. 22.

The Gagosian show will run through June 27, the gallery said.

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