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The Reinauguration of a Conceptual Classic

The grand re-opening of Marian Goodman Gallery celebrates its roster of top artists with the astute group exhibition Your Patience is Appreciated.

By Stephen Wozniak

Marian Goodman Gallery
385 Broadway
New York, NY 10013
(212) 977-7160
www.mariangoodman.com
October 26 – 14 December 14, 2024

EXCERPT

Here and now, across 35,000 fresh square feet of the Marian Goodman Gallery’s new exhibition and viewing areas, there’s a ton of art to see, so gallery president Philipp Kaiser and I get a move on. Everybody who’s anybody making relevant art today—or just a few generations prior—seems to be represented. There’s a gorgeous, mired, stripy ink and acrylic work, Filmstrip-Black Monolith of the Levant by Julie Mehretu; Tacita Dean’s dreamy, pink, penciled, cherry-blossoming Sakura (Konpira); an unexpected, minimalist, ziggurat wall work, Untitled, from 1966, hand-made of sheet metal by the late land art icon Robert Smithson; and a sea of top-form works by many other worthy makers.

I take a steadying deep breath before ingesting additional art with Kaiser. Then I spot other eye-and-mind-catchers like a pair of shiny, steely, amorphous abstract sculptures by English artist Tony Cragg; sketch work and nifty notebook-jotted ideas by concept connoisseur Dan Graham; Annette Messager’s playful-but-purposeful, feminist stuffed-fabric sculpture Malicieuse (Mischievous), paired with her laser print uterine wallpaper installation; and Thomas Struth’s full-color photos of highly wired ATLAS particle and multi-dimension detector stations—harbingers of technological things to come.

When all is said and seen, the uncanny, prescient, idea-based objects for the ages beautifully displayed at Marian Goodman in Your Patience is Appreciated are, in a word, extraordinary. But you won’t gather that with a cursory glance. Instead, patience is your friend here and if you give your time and attention to the heady, connected work and the sparkling space where it resides—and think about it—it’ll grace you tenfold outside the gallery rooms into your world beyond, where you need it the most. 

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