Tag: Gerhard Richter

  • A gift horse in the mouth: the Artists Rooms project and the d’Offay bequest 2008

    On 27 February 2008 a major announcement was made at Edinburgh’s National Gallery of Modern Art. Before the assembled British art luminaries, news was announced of possibly the greatest art bequest of the twentieth century and to date. Anthony d’Offay…

  • Mediators and Messengers: Contemporary Art in the Landscape

    The entire agenda for painting about landscape has shifted in the 21st century. Concepts and readings of the land have a weighty and protracted precedence but in the 1970s, far-reaching revisions were explored by artists. These have generated a powerful…

  • Douglas Gordon: Superhumanatural

    National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh 2 November 2006-14 January 2007 The film and video artist Douglas Gordon had his first one-man exhibition in Britain at the Lisson Gallery in 1994, sponsored by its perceptive director Nicholas Logsdail, to which he…

  • Joseph Beuys: Actions, Vitrines, Environments

    Tate Modern, London 4 February – 2 May 2005

  • Waldemar Meets Gerhard

    Gerhard Richter’s recent New York MOMA retrospective was profoundly moving, yet he remains an artist of whom British Gallery directors have fought shy for many years

  • Gerhard Richter: Forty years of painting

    The enigma of the German painter Gerhard Richter (b.1932) is finally explored through Robert Storr’s grand exhibition this spring in New York