Gagosian Gallery presents The Complete Spot Paintings 1986–2011 by Damien Hirst.

The exhibition takes place at once across all of Gagosian Gallery’s eleven locations in New York, London, Paris, Los Angeles, Rome, Athens, Geneva, and Hong Kong, opening worldwide on January 12, 2012. Most of the paintings are being lent by private individuals and public institutions, more than 150 different lenders from twenty countries. Conceived as a single exhibition in multiple locations, “The Complete Spot Paintings 1986–2011” makes use of this demographic fact to determine the content of each exhibition according to locality.

Included in the exhibition are more than 300 paintings, from the first spot on board that Hirst created in 1986; to the smallest spot painting comprising half a spot and measuring 1 x 1/2 inch (1996); to a monumental work comprising only four spots, each 60 inches in diameter; and up to the most recent spot painting completed in 2011 containing 25,781 spots that are each 1 millimeter in diameter, with no single color ever repeated.


I was always a colorist, I’ve always had a phenomenal love of color… I mean, I just move color around on its own. So that’s where the spot paintings came from—to create that structure to do those colors, and do nothing. I suddenly got what I wanted. It was just a way of pinning down the joy of color.

—Damien Hirst

Gioachino Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Libretto: Cesare Sterbini
Sung in Italian with Met titles in English, German and Spanish

Maurizio Benini, conductor
 
Rosina: Isabel Leonard
Count Almaviva: Javier Camarena
Figaro: Peter Mattei
Dr. Bartolo: Maurizio Muraro
Don Basilio: Paata Burchuladze

Production: Bartlett Sher
Set Designer: Michael Yeargan
Costume Designer: Catherine Zuber
Lighting Designer: Christopher Akerlind

Winner of nine Tony Awards including Best Musical, The Book of Mormon centers on two young Mormon missionaries sent off to spread the word in a dangerous part of Uganda. Their tale is told alongside the founder Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Trey Parker, director 
Casey Nicholaw, director 
Book, Music, Lyrics: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Robert Lopez
Casey Nicholaw, choreographer

Cast

Andrew Rannells: Elder Price 
Josh Gad: Elder Cunningham 
Nikki M. James: Nabulungi 
Rory O'Malley: Elder McKinley 
Michael Potts: Mafala Hatimbi 

Cole Porter: Anything Goes
Music & lyrics by Cole Porter;
original book by P.G. Wodehouse & Guy Bolton
and Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse;
New book by Timothy Crouse and John Weidman

Kathleen Marshall, director/choreographer

When the S.S. American heads out to sea, etiquette and convention head out the portholes as two unlikely pairs set off on the course to true love… proving that sometimes destiny needs a little help from a crew of singing sailors, an exotic disguise and some good old-fashioned blackmail.

Peppering this hilariously bumpy ride are some of musical theater's most memorable standards, including “I Get a Kick out of You,” “You're the Top,” “It's De-lovely,” and  “Anything Goes.”

Cast:

Sutton Foster: Reno Sweeney 
Joel Grey: Moonface Martin 
Colin Donnell: Billy Crocker 
Adam Godley: Lord Evelyn Oakleigh 
Laura Osnes: Hope Harcourt 
Jessica Stone: Erma 
Walter Charles: Captain 
Robert Creighton: Purser 
Andrew Cao: Luke 
Raymond J. Lee: John 
John McMartin: Elisha Whitney 
Kelly Bishop: Evangeline Harcourt