Tour of the exhibition: the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Feb. 14-May 21, 2002; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Feb. 20-May 18, 2003, and others.

"Gerhard Richter is one of the most influential artists of modern times. His painting 'September' is the response to the bombing of the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001, made some four years ...

Despite Robert Storr`s brilliant effort to reclaim Gerhard Richter for human emotion in the artist`s 2002 MOMA retrospective, the glassy chill of his work reasserted itself in his recent show at ...

Here are a few more things worth knowing about the Michael Blackwood Productions documentary flick. Gerhard Richter: 4 Decades starring Gerhard Richter, Robert Storr has a Not Rated rating, a runtime ...

Every decade or so, New York gives it up for a German artist. In 1979, it was Josef Beuys at the Guggenheim; in 1988, Anselm Kiefer received the full-on treatment at MOMA. Now it’s a critical lovefest ...

“Betty,” painted in 1977, is one of several portraits of Richter’s daughter (Museum Ludwig/The Met Breuer). Museums are closed now, everywhere. But something remarkable is also happening: They are ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Richter’s paintings could be described as the ultimate embodiment of postmodern cool. They’re the “high art” ...