my profile of the artist Paul McCarthy<\/a>, The Journal Gallery is staging possibly its most important show in over two decades of existence, not in New York\u2014where it started\u2014but in LA, where they opened an outpost in 2024.<\/p>\nGallery dinners for The Journal in the past have been nice affairs at Dan Tana\u2019s, the classic red-sauce joint right next to its West Hollywood space, but this year it held the dinner at the home of one of the city\u2019s most illustrious collectors, Eugenio L\u00f3pez Alonso, whose Grupo Jumex company runs a private museum in Mexico City that has staged some of the most ambitious contemporary art exhibitions of the last 20 years. The house is a doozy: a Richter greets you in the foyer, then you see the Donald Judd stack with a Richard Prince joke on one side and a Damien Hirst spot painting on the other. Don\u2019t trip over the incredible Charles Ray sculpture that leads to the patio, and duck under the Bruce Nauman hanging in the den. The study, maybe the city\u2019s most high-taste study imaginable, has Prouv\u00e9 tables and a Steven Parrino behind the reading nook.<\/p>\n
L\u00f3pez wheeled around, greeting guests, including Jean Pigozzi and collectors Lauren Taschen and Patricia Marshall, and artists such as Lauren Quin and Hayal Pozanti. As I was leaving, David Zwirner director Alex Marshall was parking his convertible as the enormous figure of Luc Tuymans unfolded himself from a black car.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere else do collectors invite you into their homes, and you get this level of taste?\u201d Jeffrey Deitch asked me as he was walking in, recalling another dinner at a collector\u2019s home that he compared to Versailles.<\/p>\n
Before I went to L\u00f3pez\u2019s house, Calvin Marcus had a pop-up show of etchings at City Spa, one of the most celebrated schvitz joints on West Pico, and people showed up ready to take the waters. I spotted artists Adam Alessi, Jonas Wood, John Hodgkinson, Issy Wood, Tom McDonell, and Tristan Unrau.<\/p>\n
And after L\u00f3pez\u2019s house, I made it to the Spr\u00fcth Magers dinner at A.O.C., celebrating new work by David Salle. A number of Spr\u00fcth artists were in attendance, including Jon Rafman and Ryan Trecartin, who has an absolute banger of a show with his artistic partner, Lizzie Fitch, opening this week at Mor\u00e1n Mor\u00e1n. Hollywood was also in attendance, as novelist Emma Cline introduced me to comedian Nathan Fielder, who was sitting at a table with Salle. One table over was the actor Christoph Waltz, who was also in attendance at a dinner for the artist Tacita Dean to celebrate her show at Marian Goodman Gallery on Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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