{"id":11010,"date":"2025-01-10T11:00:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T16:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=11010"},"modified":"2025-01-09T09:34:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T14:34:57","slug":"jeff-wall-at-gagosian-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/10\/jeff-wall-at-gagosian-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Wall at Gagosian Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cinematic and uncanny, <a href=\"https:\/\/gagosian.com\/exhibitions\/2024\/jeff-wall\/\">Jeff Wall<\/a>\u2019s photos at <a href=\"https:\/\/gagosian.com\/artists\/jeff-wall\/\">Gagosian Gallery<\/a> may present banal or fantastical scenarios (or a combination of both) but each arrests our attention with their careful staging and suggestion of hidden messages.\u00a0 Often referred to as \u2018near documentary\u2019 and inspired by specific works from art history or events Wall has experienced, his photographs encourage viewers to consider how details cue meaning.\u00a0 The artist has explained that he witnessed the scene in \u2018Event,\u2019 pictured here, but he changed the setting and people while still conveying his feelings about what he observed, considering age, class, masculinity, and situational behavior manifest in a single power negotiation. (On view at Gagosian Gallery on 24<sup>th<\/sup> Street in Chelsea through Jan 25<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 2849px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/5063634b-9475-5e7f-2c53-0a8ccfe6531f.jpg\" width=\"2849\" height=\"3479\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff Wall, Event, inkjet print, 87 7\/8 x 66 5\/16 x 2 11\/16 inches, 2021.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cinematic and uncanny, Jeff Wall\u2019s photos at Gagosian Gallery may present banal or fantastical scenarios (or a combination of both) but each arrests our attention with their careful staging and suggestion of hidden messages.\u00a0 Often referred to as \u2018near documentary\u2019 and inspired by specific works from art history or events Wall has experienced, his photographs &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/10\/jeff-wall-at-gagosian-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jeff Wall 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":[145,11192,346,7620,11193,2846,17],"class_list":["post-11010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-hottest-show","tag-chelsea-galleries","tag-event","tag-gagosian-gallery","tag-jeff-wall","tag-near-documentary","tag-photographer","tag-photography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-2RA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11010","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=11010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11012,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11010\/revisions\/11012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}