{"id":10084,"date":"2022-11-30T10:30:33","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T15:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=10084"},"modified":"2025-02-11T14:23:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T19:23:03","slug":"anselm-kiefer-at-gagosian-gallery-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/30\/anselm-kiefer-at-gagosian-gallery-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Anselm Kiefer, Danae at Gagosian Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gagosian.com\/exhibitions\/2022\/anselm-kiefer-exodus-new-york\/\">Gagosian Gallery<\/a>\u2019s enormous Chelsea space seems made to accommodate the monumental scale and theme of Anselm Kiefer\u2019s latest paintings, which address contemporary migration via reference to Greek mythology and the Biblical exodus.\u00a0 The title of this over 43\u2019 long painting, \u2018Danae,\u2019 refers to the Greek myth of Zeus manifesting as a shower of gold to visit the imprisoned Danae, a liaison which resulted in the birth of their son, Perseus.\u00a0 Here, a cloud of gold hovers above the cavernous hangar of Berlin\u2019s now-closed Tempelhof Airport, a space that has been used to house refugees, as if to rain blessing on the imperiled populations that have taken refuge there. (On view through Dec 23<sup>rd<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 2000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/afc893c3-b69a-26c6-9fde-1c8e43c204e2.jpg\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1319\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anselm Kiefer, Danae, emulsion, acrylic, oil, shellac, gold leaf, coal, metal and wires on canvas, 149 5\/8 x 523 5\/8 inches, 2016 \u2013 2021.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gagosian Gallery\u2019s enormous Chelsea space seems made to accommodate the monumental scale and theme of Anselm Kiefer\u2019s latest paintings, which address contemporary migration via reference to Greek mythology and the Biblical exodus.\u00a0 The title of this over 43\u2019 long painting, \u2018Danae,\u2019 refers to the Greek myth of Zeus manifesting as a shower of gold to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/30\/anselm-kiefer-at-gagosian-gallery-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Anselm Kiefer, Danae at Gagosian Gallery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[10115,7165,117,145,1348,346,2888,1210,33],"class_list":["post-10084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-hottest-show","tag-exodus","tag-anselm-kiefer","tag-chelsea","tag-chelsea-galleries","tag-gagosian","tag-gagosian-gallery","tag-migration","tag-monumental","tag-painting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-2CE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10084"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11452,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10084\/revisions\/11452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}