The world-famous artist Gerhard Richter turns 90 today, February 9, and Germany is celebrating his legacy with a group of exhibitions offering new angles on his decades-long career. The trio of shows ...

German artist Gerhard Richter is widely regarded as one of the most important—if not the most important—artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. His distinctive, large-format abstract paintings and ...

For one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, it all started with a photograph of a modernist table seen in ...

In honor of artist Gerhard Richter's 94th birthday, the story of "Domplatz, Mailand (Cathedral Square, Milan)," the $37 million painting that hung for 15 years next to the front desk at the Park Hyatt ...

Gerhard Richter, “Betty” (1977), oil on wood, 11 13/16 × 15 3/4 inches (all images courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art) For an artist in his late 80s, Gerhard Richter has managed to remain ...

A new show of works by one of Germany's most famous living artists, Gerhard Richter, opened at Berlin's Neue Nationalgalerie museum on Friday. "Gerhard Richter. 100 Works for Berlin" shows for the ...

Gerhard Richter, one of the most important German painters of the post-WWII era is 91. A recent show at David Zwirner Gallery on 20 th Street in New York, which closed this past weekend, was a vivid ...

The German artist Gerhard Richter may be the most important painter of our era. But the picture that also made him our most expensive living artist, thanks to an auction in London on Friday, may not ...

In the transfixing documentary Gerhard Richter Painting, one of the world's most famous living painters drags a giant squeegee across a giant canvas. Huge walls of primary colors cover the entire ...

Gerhard Richter’s “Cage” suite of large paintings, commissioned for the 2007 Venice Biennale, are almost scenographic in sweep. The epic paintings are unabashedly theatrical, aggressively setting the ...

In the long arc of art history, we’ve become reluctantly accustomed to the devastating loss of cultural artifacts due to war and human misdeeds, natural disaster, and just plain unfortunate accidents.