Likening the physicality of paint to the feeling and appearance of skin, Broad collection artist Jenny Saville (who celebrated her birthday last week) constructs images which challenge contemporary preconceptions of conventional beauty—beauty as defined mostly by a long history of painting by male artists in Western art. In 2019, Saville and Jennifer Doyle, author and professor of English at UC Riverside, spoke about the congruencies of Saville’s work and Doyle’s areas of interest, such as visua

Tune in tomorrow at 2pm EST for the third episode of Gagosian Premieres! Jenny Saville will celebrate her exhibition "Elpis" at Gagosian New York with painter Nathaniel Mary Quinn and historian Simon Schama, with a performance by the Aaron Diehl Trio, who will play music by Philip Glass as well as a new composition inspired by the work on view. In this episode, Quinn takes viewers on a walkthrough of Saville’s exhibition, sharing his enthusiasm for the craft of painting and the power of the arti

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