The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Regarding Warhol” exhibition opens to the public on Sept. 18, and it promises to be a major event. It will include 45 works by Warhol, arguably the most important postwar contemporary artist, and pieces by some 60 artists that have been influenced by him. Group shows of contemporary art at the Met are exceedingly rare affairs (though that may soon change, given the recent arrival of Sheena Wagstaff from Tate Modern to lead its department for 20th- and 21st-century art), and they are almost unrivaled showcases for artists: the Met is the second-most-visited museum in the world each year. Being including in a show like “Regarding Warhol,” to put it bluntly, can help raise the profile of even the most established artists, and lead to sales down the line.
Who made the cut for “Regarding Warhol?” The lucky artists are listed below, grouped by their New York galleries. (In cases where two galleries share some aspect of their representation in New York, they were listed under both.) The list reveals that, at least by this admittedly peculiar measure, Gagosian shows the most Warhol-influenced artists, and by a wide margin. The complete results are below.
GAGOSIAN (13)
Richard Artschwager
Richard Avedon
John Currin
Douglas Gordon
Andreas Gursky
Damien Hirst
Anselm Kiefer
Jeff Koons
Takashi Murakami
Richard Prince
Edward Ruscha
Julian Schnabel
Francesco Vezzoli
PACE (3)
Chuck Close
David Hockney
Hiroshi Sugimoto
MATTHEW MARKS (3)
Robert Gober
Nan Goldin
Peter Hujar (estate)
ANDREA ROSEN (3)
Felix Gonzalez-Torres (estate)
Wolfgang Tillmans
Ryan Trecartin
MARIAN GOODMAN (3)
John Baldessari
Maurizio Cattelan
Gerhard Richter
GLADSTONE (3)
Matthew Barney
Keith Haring (estate)
Sarah Lucas
SPERONE WESTWATER (3)
Bruce Nauman
Tom Sachs
Julian Schnabel
LUHRING AUGUSTINE (2)
Glenn Ligon
Christopher Wool
METRO PICTURES (2)
Louise Lawler
Cindy Sherman
GAVIN BROWN’S ENTERPRISE (2)
Alex Katz
Elizabeth Peyton
PAULA COOPER (2)
Hans Haacke
Kelley Walker
MARY BOONE (2)
Ai Weiwei
Barbara Kruger
SONNABEND (2)
Gilbert & George
Jeff Koons
TEAM (1)
Cory Arcangel
D’AMELIO (1)
Polly Apfelbaum
GALERIE LELONG (1)
Alfredo Jaar
PAUL KASMIN (1)
Deborah Kass
303 GALLERY (1)
Karen Kilimnik
MITCHELL-INNES & NASH (1)
Catherine Opie
MICHAEL ROSENFELD (1)
Betye Saar
MCKEE (1)
Vija Celmins
DAVID ZWIRNER (1)
Luc Tuymans
YANCEY RICHARDSON (1)
Christopher Makos
PETZEL (1)
Allan McCollum
SIKKEMA JENKINS (1)
Vik Muniz
LEHMANN MAUPIN (1)
Gilbert & George
MICHAEL WERNER (1)
Sigmar Polke (estate)
JAMES COHAN (1)
Nam June Paik (estate)
SEAN KELLY
Robert Mapplethorpe (estate)
ELIZABETH DEE
Kalup Linzy
UNREPRESENTED
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Cady Noland
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