White Cube New York arrives on Madison Avenue on October 3rd.
White Cube New York. Photo © White Cube (Nicholas Venezia).
The London-born powerhouse gallery White Cube gave the press a preview of its first permanent New York outpost at 1002 Madison Avenue, between 77th and 78th Streets, on Friday morning. It officially opens to the public on October 3rd.
The impressive, freshly renovated gallery boasts 8,000 square feet of airy, white-walled exhibition and viewing room space across three floors. The historic building’s 1930 facade has been preserved, nodding to its original use as the Fulton Trust Company bank. Senior director Courtney Willis Blair noted that White Cube has had a base in New York since 2019, and found the current location a few years ago, which will help further the gallery’s vision of “making the contemporary historic and the historic contemporary.”
Though most of the city’s new gallery outposts are currently landing in Tribeca, White Cube is in good company uptown—located within a three-block radius of a dozen or so major and tastemaking galleries, including Gagosian, Almine Rech, Acquavella, and Sprüth Magers. Plus, it’s next-door to neighborhood favorite Sant Ambroeus.
Installation view, left to right, works by Theaster Gates, Danh Vo, Julie Mehretu, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Pope.L, and Mark Bradford, in “Chopped & Screwed,” 3–28 October, 2023, White Cube New York. © the artists. Photo © White Cube (Theo Christelis).
The inaugural exhibition “Chopped & Screwed,” curated by Willis Blair and running October 3–28, features an array of standout works by 19 artists—a dazzling slate from within and beyond the White Cube roster, including Mark Bradford, Theaster Gates, David Hammons, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Julie Mehretu, Adrian Piper, Ilana Savdie, and Danh Vō, among others. “It really considers this practice and methodology of sourcing, distorting, [and] experimenting that you see artists take on today as a way to subvert systems of power and also reimagine the world,” Willis Blair explained.
The gallery has a compelling lineup of shows to come: Next up is Tracey Emin’s solo exhibition “Lovers Grave,” opening November 4th and marking her first solo show in New York in seven years; followed by 2024 solo presentations of Theaster Gates, Etel Adnan, and Antony Gormley.
