Gerhard Richter: Museum of Modern Art. (New York).Gerhard Richter Gerhard Richter (born February 9, 1932) is a prominent German artist. Richter is considered by some critics as one of the most important German artists of the post-World War II period and is also one of the world's most expensive, with his paintings often selling for several shows come and go with an anodyne anodyne /an·o·dyne/ (an´ah-din) 1. relieving pain. 2. a medicine that eases pain. an·o·dyne n. An agent that relieves pain. regularity; each occasion is more or less gorgeous, more or less intelligent, but a certain tedium has set in. Hence, the Museum of Modern Art's painting retrospective--organized by curator Robert Storr and comprising some 180 works from 1962 to the present--should provide a welcome opportunity for reevaluation and, no doubt, more praise for this canonical figure in contemporary art. Richter's achievement, when considered in full, should more than offset the cookiecutter, by-the-yard collector's chic that too often seems his stock-in-trade. Feb. 14-May 21; Art Institute of Chicago Art Institute of Chicago, museum and art school, in Grant Park, facing Michigan Ave. It was incorporated in 1879; George Armour was the first president. Since 1893 the Institute has been housed in its present building, designed in the Italian Renaissance style by , June 22-Sept. 15; SF MOMA Moma (mō`mä), town, E central Mozambique. It is important mainly as a harbor for the export of tropical produce. , Oct. 11-Jan. 14, 2003; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC, Feb. 20, 2003-May 18, 2003. |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion