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 ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Most elderly painters wish to die standing at the easel, and some come close. Ninety-seven-year-old Chagall ...

The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic appears to have little impact on auctions in Asia as Sotheby’s delivered a HK$684.1m (US$88.2m) live-streamed contemporary art evening sale in Hong Kong last night—the ...

Gerhard Richter Painting was directed by Corinna Belz, who previously made a 2007 documentary about Mr. Richter’s creation of stained glass windows for the Cologne Cathedral, which appeared at 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.

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 ...

Tate Modern's tremendous survey of the German master Gerhard Richter opens with a painting of second world war bombers shedding their ordnance from that other world above the clouds. It is clearly ...

Gerhard Richter's choir windows at Tholey Abbey. (Photo courtesy of the Meiser family and Abtei Tholey) Three soaring windows took on light for the first time at the oldest abbey in Germany last ...