Light-filled labyrinth of a museum Nov 20, 2009
The museum, devoted to architecture and art alike, has been busy collecting work by Anish Kapoor, Gerhard Richter, Francesco Clemente and many others (plus the archives of the architects Carlo Scarpa, Aldo Rossi and Pier Luigi Nervi). However, this light-filled labyrinth is dedicated to the future - there is the rest of the 21st century to go before the museum can be called complete. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Philanthropist Yao Ming Partners With the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston on the 2010 Yao Ming Foundation Gala Nov 19, 2009
Recent additions to the collections include Rembrandt van Rijn's Portrait of a Young Woman (1633), the Heiting Collection of Photography, a major suite of Gerhard Richter paintings, an array of important works by Jasper Johns, a rare, second-century Hellenistic bronze Head of Poseidon/Antigonos Doson, major canvases by 19th-century painters Gustave Courbet and J.M.W. Turner, distinguished work by the leading 20th- and 21st-century Latin American artists, and The Adolpho Leirner Collection of... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
* A stairway to the future Nov 18, 2009
The truth is that although the museum, devoted to both architecture and art, has been busy collecting work by Anish Kapoor, Gerhard Richter, Francesco Clemente and many others (along with the archives of architects Carlo Scarpa, Aldo Rossi and Pier Luigi Nervi), this light-filled labyrinth is dedicated to the future. There is no great hurry to fill it, after all: there is the rest of the 21st century to go before the museum can be called complete. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Secret Postcards Nov 14, 2009
This year, German artist Gerhard Richter has donated a work for the first time. To date, sales of postcards have topped 1m for the fund, helping hundreds of emerging artists. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
* And now, an exhibition from our sponsor Aug 23, 2009
Deutsche Bank curator Liz Christensen stands below a painting by Gerhard Richter in the lobby of Deutsche Banks New York headquarters on Aug. 4. Deutsche Banks collection includes more than 50,000 works by Richter, Warhol and other prominent artists, and an executive says the company has made art a major part of the banks identity. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Friday fun at de Young Jun 29, 2009
Gloria Speicher and Bob Barter, both in their early 60s, listened to the sultry singer and admired the huge Gerhard Richter photo mural behind the stage. They smiled at each other. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
No room for cars at Presidio museum Mar 29, 2009
We question whether a museum of contemporary works featuring such artists as Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, Gerhard Richter and Roy Lichtenstein fits within this historic setting. We also question the Main Post's capacity for handling additional thousands of daily visitors. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)
A life videotaping life has become a movie Mar 19, 2009
They are as elusive and tantalizing as the photo-based paintings of Gerhard Richter or the recent low-fi video experiments of David Lynch. THE FEATURE. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
China's art market: Cold or maybe hibernating? Mar 11, 2009
But by 2007, 5 of the 10 best-selling living artists at auction were Chinese-born, led by Zhang Xiaogang, who trailed only Gerhard Richter and Damien Hirst. That year, Zhang's auction sales totaled $56 million, according to Artprice. (International Herald Tribune)
Read Indepth Article Mar 2, 2009
"Gerhard Richter. Abstract Paintings" 2009-02-27 until 2009-05-17 Munich, , DE Germany ... Gerhard Richter has been painting his abstract paintings since the 1970s ... Gerhard Richter uses the expanse and height of the exhibition rooms in the Haus der Kunst to flexibly interpret the serial character of the nearly 50 large format paintings: to depict the sum of the individual works through their concentration in one room ("Bach"), or to emphasize the individual works by hanging them in different,... (AbsoluteArts.com)
Art Review | The Art Show: Rewards and clarity in a show of restraint Feb 20, 2009
At the entrance the small, mordant paintings-on-photographs by Gerhard Richter at Marian Goodman range from holiday lightness to crime-scene darkness inhabited by phantom Sasquatches. Michael Werner has mounted a truly inspired juxtaposition of clotted paintings by the French artist Eug. (International Herald Tribune)
How art connected 2 sides of the Berlin Wall Feb 17, 2009
Stars like Joseph Beuys, George Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer and Gerhard Richter had arrived on the world stage by the 1970s and established a new era of German cultural prestige abroad, while East German art languished under Communism, churning out only Socialist Realism. Multimedia. (International Herald Tribune)
Art.view: Shock and the new Feb 15, 2009
An exciteable German collector even waved both arms to ensure he secured the two Gerhard Richter paintings on offer, a smoky grey-and-green landscape and a red abstract, for a total of 2. 3m 2. (The Economist)
Low estimates and high profiles buoy the contemporary art market Feb 13, 2009
No one could doubt this by the time "Troisdorf," a landscape painted by Gerhard Richter in 1985, sold for 2. 11 million. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
