While museums around the globe are closed to the public, we are spotlighting each day an inspiring exhibition that was previously on view. Even if you can’t see it in person, allow us to give you a ...

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 ...

A new exhibition of works by Gerhard Richter—made in response to Switzerland’s Engadin valley, a prime destination for hiking and skiing in the Alps—is a collaboration between three institutions in ...

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 ...

The exhibition Gerhard Richter: Abstraction, held at the Museum Barberini in Potsdam, focuses on works by the renowned German painter which reveal his abstract strategies and techniques. The ...

Christie’s is honored to present Abstraktes Bild (809-1), dating from Gerhard Richter’s finest period of abstraction as one of the highlights of the fall season. Abstraktes Bild (809-1) is coming from ...

An abstract painting by the German artist Gerhard Richter has sold for £21.3m, setting a new record for the price paid at auction for the work of a living artist. Abstraktes Bild (809-4), which was ...

Gerhard Richter’s painting Abstraktes Bild, 1986, will headline Sotheby’s upcoming evening sale of modern and contemporary art in London, with an estimate in excess of £20 million (US$24.4 million).

Gerhard Richter handed over his four-part series Birkenau, the result of his decades-long quest for a creative response to the Holocaust, to the German lower house of parliament in a ceremony on ...

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 ...

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 ...