February 2026

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 “Jeffrey Deitch dedicated THE BEING its own colossal screening room: a 30 × 40 ft vertical screen, shimmering at an estimated 12K, celebrating Marco Perego’s audacious originality. The space pulses with puffs of petrichor—the raw, earthy scent of rain striking dry earth—drawing viewers deep into the artwork’s living atmosphere.” “Mr. Deitch knows “how to entice the art crowd.” © He installed a ‘Curved Shell Loveseats.’ As moments on the screen exploded with white light—like a sudden light bulb illuminating the room—you could see art lovers on the curved seats, couples magnetized by the images, clutching hands in ecstatic anticipation of the unknown yet to come.” 

“As thunderous music with deep, escalating tones broke through, interrupted by brief silence, Philip Glass–like disharmonious instruments formed a memorable jazz symphony where everything goes. Colors grew bright and intimate in the pupillary light reflex.”

“Marco Perego propels us well beyond NASA’s limits. We hop aboard his Hypernova Transit.” We streak past the Milky Way, brush gods of Nebulae, slice through the Dark Matter Halo. Whirlpool Galaxy glows with blue spirals and pink star nurseries; Cartwheel Galaxy ripples from collision. Every light, every color surges around us—we are voyagers weightless in a living universe.” “The Being,”  at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery 7000 Santa Monica Blvd. February 20–April 4, 2026. For laarttv,  Julian Schultz AP. London.

Art Note: The artist has been previewed at: Andy Warhol Museum, the Hammer Museum, and the Pinault Collection, and in exhibitions at venues such as the Maccarone Gallery (New York/Los Angeles), the Rennie Museum (Vancouver), and the Centre Pompidou-Metz. His 2025. Marco Perego he is known for his expressive, transformative visual art and for directing the feature film The Absence of Eden. 

Warhol’s religious practice extended beyond attendance. Each year, he visited the Church of the Heavenly Rest on the Upper East Side for Christmas and Thanksgiving services drawn from the Book of Common Prayer. There, he volunteered in meal programs for the underprivileged, performing acts of service largely unseen by the public eye. It was within this understated setting that Paige Powell photographed Warhol—not as icon, but as participant.

Powell’s images, made with small, unobtrusive 35mm cameras and occasionally marked by double, or three exposures, resist spectacle. Instead, they offer proximity: moments of stillness, duty, and quiet generosity. Published during Warhol’s lifetime in Interview and later in major newspapers and books, including The Andy Warhol Diaries, these photographs form a visual counterpoint to the artist’s public mythology.

Private Andy: Religious Services reframes Warhol through devotion rather than performance, revealing a life shaped as much by liturgy and service as by art, fame, and repetition. Host delivers sharp intellectual style in a Packable Shell by Marc Jacobs—fashion with wit. ©