Maurizio Cattelan is retiring from art making after his current retrospective Maurizio Cattelan: All. To mark the end of the exhibition (and the beginning of retirement) on Saturday, January 21, the Guggenheim is holding a multidisciplinary program called The Last Word, for which more than 30 prominent artists, philosophers, writers, comedians, filmmakers, actors, musicians, and more will come together to contemplate the subject of voluntary endings. The event tackles that most difficult moment: to decide when to stop one thing and begin another or to end it altogether.
Maurizio Cattelan. Photo: Pierpaolo Ferrari
Participants include Tracey Emin, Matmos, Philippe Parreno, David Lipsky and Courtney Love among others (you can see the full list here). Organized as a series of brief 10-15 minute individual presentations, The Last Word begins at 18:00 and continues until 01:00. Admission is pay what you wish, a cash bar will be available from 20:00 onwards and the exhibition will remain on view throughout the program. In the likely event that you cannot attend you can watch the live stream HERE.