Steven Winn says goodbye to The Chronicle Dec 9, 2008
The thrilling opening night of "Angels in America" at the Eureka Theatre; a Handel aria spun out to a shimmer at the Opera House; turning another corner in the capacious Gerhard Richter show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; a comic meteor from Robin Williams, who's leapt up on some small stage unannounced - we all have our catalog of moments that make us forget who we are and where we are and at the same time make us deeply grateful to be exactly where we are, present as some singular... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Buying her way into the art party Nov 25, 2008
The same building houses dealers including Marian Goodman, who handles Gerhard Richter, Tacita Dean and Jeff Wall. Tiffany's and Louis Vuitton are a stone's throw away. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
At auctions, contemporary art shows its strength Nov 14, 2008
A solidly monochrome painting on glass by Gerhard Richter, "Mirror Painting (Blood Red)," which was not an easy work to sell, pulled through and went for $1. 31 million, well under the printed estimate - Sotheby's had worked hard to persuade consignors to bring down their estimates and reserves and this was actually a good price. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Cool-headed buyers are now running the show Oct 24, 2008
There were problems for Gerhard Richter, whose abstract paintings both failed. But here, there was a good reason. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Getting the hang of it Jul 19, 2008
These little incubators will allow for more intense, up-close confrontations with key figures, among them Michael Snow, Robert Smithson, Jack Chambers, Gerhard Richter and the artist collectives N.E. Thing Company and General Idea. (Nearly 30 per cent of the contemporary work on display will be new acquisitions. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
'So true, so intimate' Jun 28, 2008
For (belying the common notion that photo-painting somehow only began in the 1960s, with artists such as Gerhard Richter) a great deal in Hammersh;i's oeuvre depends explicitly on transcriptions from photographs - most strikingly, his images of his wife. Do I know this woman. (Guardian Unlimited)
His scattered dreams Jun 17, 2008
Gerhard Richter does this sort of thing to much greater effect. In fact, recent Twomblys just look indulgent to me. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Tackling climate change, artist's career is red hot Jun 13, 2008
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$86 million for a Bacon triptych leads record sales at Sotheby's May 15, 2008
Pure abstraction, as represented by a superbly painted canvas of 1990 by Gerhard Richter, with no title other than "Abstract Picture," was well received as witness the $15. 16 million, which nearly doubled Sotheby's estimate and matched the price given earlier for the very figural Murakami. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Peter Schjeldahl: Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke do windows. May 5, 2008
Photographs of stained-glass windows created by two German artists, Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke. A portfolio of photographs from a Li Yang Crazy English training camp, by Ian Teh. (New Yorker)
Art auction of Chinese works full of surprises Apr 10, 2008
But last year, he was one of the hottest living artists in the global auction market, just behind Damien Hirst and Gerhard Richter and ahead of Jeff Koons, according to Art Market Trends 2007. The report also said China's auction market now ranks third in the world, behind only the United States and Britain and ahead of France. (International Herald Tribune)
Bacon's Nude, Warhol Self-Portraits Star in Sotheby's, Phillips U.K. Sales Feb 26, 2008
High-value works by Damien Hirst, Warhol and Gerhard Richter were among unsold lots. The highest estimated work at Sotheby's tomorrow is Bacon's 1969 painting, ``Study of Nude With Figure in a Mirror,'' expected to fetch at least 18 million pounds. (Bloomberg -- UK)
AUCTIONS: At Christie's Post-War and Contemporary sale, 3 world records, but danger looms Feb 9, 2008
The German artist Gerhard Richter was the first to win the jackpot as "Two Couples of Lovers," painted in 1966 in the blurred photography style that he practiced when in his 30s, sold for 7. 3 million. (International Herald Tribune)
Bacon triptych brings £26.3-million Feb 7, 2008
Further highlights at the Christie's sale included Zwei Liebespaare by Germany's Gerhard Richter that sold for 7. 3-million, a new record for the artist. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Contemporary Art Museum at the Presidio Endorsed by Presidio Trust Jan 31, 2008
The Fisher collection includes important works from artists such as Gerhard Richter, Richard Serra, Alexander Calder, Ellsworth Kelly, Richard Diebenkorn, Cy Twombly, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Chuck Close, Willem DeKooning, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Anselm Kiefer. In addition to the new museum building, the CAMP project includes the rehabilitation of a nearby barracks, Building 101, which will house the museums bookstore and extensive public education programs, and will include a... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Richter, Top German Artist, Shuns `Crazy' Market, Opens Baden-Baden Show Jan 22, 2008
Jan. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Gerhard Richter, Germany's most expensive living artist, is hardly wallowing in his art-market success. Asked the other day about the prices his works fetch at auction, he said he sometimes wonders if ``everyone is crazy. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
Deutsche Bank's Chief Art Collector Can't Afford Works by Hirst, Richter Dec 22, 2007
Gerhard Richter, Georg Baselitz, Sigmar Polke and Andreas Gursky all feature in the collection, which began in the 1970s. Yet Huette, 50, laughs when asked whether the bank would spend millions on a work by the U.K. artist Damien Hirst. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
Painting gets a broader brush in L.A. Dec 4, 2007
But neither posture prevented Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke in Germany or Ed Ruscha and James Hayward in L.A.from painting up a storm. What actually was dying was not painting but its complement -- a provincial enslavement to the primacy of the New York School. (Los Angeles Times)
Christie's Puts $12 Million Bikini Picture on Display in Hong Kong, London Nov 23, 2007
Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Christie's International is courting buyers for its spring contemporary-art sales with a Gerhard Richter painting of a bikini-clad woman that goes on show today in Hong Kong. The German artist's ``Zwei Liebespaare,'' modeled on a photograph of two couples lying on a beach, would set a record for Richter if it reached its $12 million estimate. (Bloomberg -- UK)
Warhol car crashes sales barrier Nov 14, 2007
Records were broken by more than half of the 50 artists represented, including British artist Damien Hirst, Jasper Johns, Gerhard Richter and Donald Judd. Another Warhol painting, Lemon Marilyn, fetched $28m (14m). (BBC News -- Entertainment)
$325 million Christie's sale reflects buoyant market Nov 14, 2007
The next promotion benefited Gerhard Richter, the highly versatile German artist. On Tuesday, "D?senj?ger," a perfectly figural if impressionistic rendition of a jetfighter, done in 1963, went up to an amazing $11. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
'It is like a jewel' Nov 8, 2007
"Sch?tte, 52, studied under painter Gerhard Richter at the D?sseldorf Academy and has always gone his own way, but been relaxed about taking ideas from conceptual art and minimalism, from theatre set design and architecture. He says music and the movies were more important to his generation of art students than old churches and classical art. We sit wallowing in the silence for a bit, Sch?tte smoking and looking into his coffee cup, until I ask who it is he wants to beat, who he imagines he's... (Guardian Unlimited)
The Painting of Modern Life Oct 5, 2007
Gerhard Richter developed a technique of feathering a wet brush over the surface of a painting to blur the underlying image to mimic the variable focus of a photograph ... The subject matter is equally rambling; we have a Jackie Onassis lookalike by Gerhard Richter hung close to an American bomber aircraft by Vija Celmins, which is not far from a Hockney boy about to take a shower and a Venetian tourist scene by Johanna Kandl. (Times Online)
Cologne Cardinal Apologizes for Using Term Linked to Nazis to Describe Art Sep 19, 2007
Replacing colorless glass installed after the original windows were destroyed in the war, the design by Gerhard Richter is an abstract arrangement of 11,000 fragments of glass in 72 different colors. The Nazis destroyed canvasses and persecuted artists such as Otto Dix, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Emil Nolde and Max Beckmann. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
Actress Cate Blanchett installing filtration system at home; 'Drink own wastewater'... Sep 18, 2007
The performance will turn the entire rotunda of the Guggenheim into a theater, and Blanchett a contemporary-art enthusiast who counts Gerhard Richter and Bill Viola as favorites will deliver a monologue by Pirandello. "I needed somebody who had a very iconic presence but at the same time a very specific acting capability," says Vezzoli. (The Drudge Report)
Cardinal in 'Nazi art term' row Sep 16, 2007
The abstract work by renowned artist Gerhard Richter contains thousands of squares. The archbishop's supporters say he is not opposed to modern art as such but wanted the window to be a more figurative representation, including of those who suffered under Nazi persecution. (BBC News -- Europe)
Iraq inspires surge of protest art Sep 9, 2007
The American collagist Martha Rosler has reimagined the work that she produced in the Sixties addressing the impact of the war on the home front, while Gerhard Richter, one of Germany's most important living artists, has also tackled the war in a book of collages entitled War Cut. But it is, perhaps, Botero's paintings, reminiscent in some respects of Francisco de Goya's Disasters of War, that is likely to be the most visible of the works emerging in opposition to the Iraq war. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
SFMOMA's Neal Benezra balances art and money Sep 7, 2007
Celmins' painting might almost be taken for a work by Gerhard Richter, the German master of stylistic disguise whose retrospective was a major event of Benezra's tenure ... Major exhibitions: "Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting" (2002), "Marc Chagall" (2003), "Diane Arbus Revelations" (2003), "Philip Guston Retrospective" (2003), "Chuck Close: Self-Portraits" (2005), "The Art of Richard Tuttle" (2005), "Robert Bechtle: A Retrospective" (2005), "Anselm Kiefer: Heaven and Earth" (2006),... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Galleries: Daniel Mendel-Black's colorful abstractions at Modernism Aug 12, 2007
I cannot look at a Mendel-Black picture such as "#93" (2007) without thinking of the abstractions that Gerhard Richter makes by dragging one wet swath of color over another. I wish I could protect Richter's sober, occasionally elegiac efforts from association with Mendel-Black's giddy, blowsy ones, but none of us can. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Arts chiefs warn of funding problem for festival Aug 10, 2007
Edinburgh seeks larger subsidy to stay on top Lottery bid submitted to fund gallery makeover. Charlotte Higgins, arts correspondentFriday August 10, 2007. (Guardian Unlimited)
Art For Our Sake Aug 9, 2007
" The Fishers have purchased works from some of the world's most famous modern artists, storing it away in their homes and in two galleries at the Gap's waterfront headquarters. The hallways leading to Fisher's office look like museums in their own right. One hallway features a series of colorful Mick Jagger portraits by Warhol, a Picasso lithograph and a wall covered in Lichtenstein pop art. Whimsical Calder mobiles float from ceilings, walls and hangers. Art experts say it is not the size of... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Gap founder plans world-class S.F. art museum Aug 9, 2007
The collection of more than 1,000 pieces amassed by Fisher and his wife, Doris, includes work by such contemporary stalwarts as Andy Warhol, Alexander Calder, Roy Lichtenstein and Gerhard Richter. Experts believe the collection could fetch more than $1 billion in today's buoyant art market. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Major Contemporary Art Museum Proposed for Presidio Aug 9, 2007
The Fisher Collection includes more than 1,000 works by Gerhard Richter, Richard Serra, Alexander Calder, Ellsworth Kelly, Richard Diebenkorn, Cy Twombly, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Chuck Close, Willem DeKooning, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Anselm Kiefer and numerous other leading artists. "Art is an important part of our life and we want to share our collection with the public so everyone can enjoy it," Donald Fisher said. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
European artists return to church Jul 18, 2007
completed a ceramic panorama for the St. Pere Chapel in the Gothic cathedral in Palma, Majorca, and the eclectic German painter Gerhard Richter created a dazzling stained-glass window for the Cologne Cathedral in Germany, which will be unveiled on Aug. 25. Several artists, including the abstract Portuguese painter Pedro Calapez, have been commissioned to create works for the interior of the new Church of the Most Holy Trinity in Ftima, Portugal, which was designed by the Greek architect... (International Herald Tribune -- Travel)
POSTCARD FROM... Jun 23, 2007
Similarly, if there were enough good new art, a deeply affecting picture of a child warrior in fatigues by Congolese artist Cheri Samba, might find itself flanked by more where that came from, instead of familiar abstracts by established artists Ellsworth Kelly and Gerhard Richter. Obviously, the fairs have a powerful impact on the hot some say overheated modern and contemporary art market. (Time.com)
Pondering the contemporary show at Kassel Jun 22, 2007
Apart from Gerhard Richter, with one small 1977 portrait, Agnes Martin with one painting, and the California-based John McCracken, there are relatively few Euro-American A-list figures in sight. This is far and away the most interesting feature of Documenta 12. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
In Venice, sober art amid the spectacle Jun 17, 2007
An impression of conservatism is enhanced in the white galleries of the Italian Pavilion, where abstract paintings by such familiar modern masters as Ellsworth Kelly , Robert Ryman , and Gerhard Richter are prominently featured. Many other artists, however, assert urgently political statements. (Boston Globe)
An art show in Kassel, Germany, rivals Venice Biennale Jun 13, 2007
rgel has chosen Gerhard Richter, considered by some critics to be one of the most important German artists since World War II.. But perhaps the most memorable display may turn out to be that of the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, who recently announced on his blog a plan to fly into Kassel 1,001 people from China, including farmers, workers, traffic policemen and others for a performance entitled "Fairytale.". (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Pax Americana in the Serene Republic Jun 11, 2007
Two of the largest rooms are given over to German giants of the contemporary scene, Gerhard Richter (whose 2002 MoMA retrospective was organized by Mr. Storr) and Sigmar Polke. But where Mr. Richter might have contributed to the sense of political tension and terrorism with his Baader-Meinhof paintings, and Mr. Polke with his cacophonous, deliberately overloaded referential paintings, they are shown instead here in a serene mode, Mr. Richter with his enigmatically lush smudge paintings and Mr.... (New York Sun)
Microsoft's art collection has some hang-ups Jun 9, 2007
Among the 50,000 pieces in Deutsche Bank's collection are works by Pablo Picasso and Gerhard Richter; Progressive owns a Mao serigraph by Andy Warhol. By the late 1970s, companies started buying art to stimulate employees sequestered in office parks. (USA Today)
Sigmar Polke: Inscrutable master of the unexpected May 30, 2007
"But he is a very difficult artist to get hold of. He makes Richter, who's complicated, look simple." (Polke is often grouped with Gerhard Richter because both came of age and experimented in West Germany in the 1960s. Like the paintings themselves, Polke's explanations are not always easy to parse. (International Herald Tribune)
UNC art students honor VT victims May 18, 2007
"Simpson said he was inspired by a similar project done by German artist Gerhard Richter, who painted the eight nurses killed in the University of Texas tower shooting in 1966."I saw it as psychologically healthy for them," Simpson said of his students. "They wanted to do something - they had to. ". (The Morning Star)
UNC Charlotte art students honor Virginia Tech victims May 17, 2007
"Simpson said he was inspired by a similar project done by German artist Gerhard Richter, who painted the eight nurses killed in the University of Texas tower shooting in 1966."I saw it as psychologically healthy for them," Simpson said of his students. "They wanted to do something - they had to. "---Information from: The Charlotte Observer, ". (Foster's Daily Democrat)
Weak Dollar Offers Little Comfort to Europe's Art Buyers at New York Sales May 14, 2007
David Rockefeller's Mark Rothko painting and Francis Bacon and Gerhard Richter works are priced at twice the artists' auction records. Wealthy collectors such as Steven Cohen of the U.S., Britain's Saatchi and Israel's Sammy Ofer are unlikely to be swayed by currency shifts. (Bloomberg -- Europe)
No Boundaries Mar 14, 2007
Frisell has written scores to accompany the silent films of Buster Keaton and music inspired by the paintings of Gerhard Richter. His poetic, uncluttered playing merges the harmonic richness and grace of jazz master Jim Hall with the wired-up effects of Jimi Hendrix. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Terrible twosome Feb 13, 2007
Gerhard Richter, who once painted their portrait, has said what impresses him most is that they have always taken their independence as a matter of course. They position themselves as outsiders, marked by their suits, their professed conservatism, their delight in perverse and sometimes outrageous opinion. (Guardian Unlimited)
