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Tatiana Trouve

In her installations, sculptures and drawings, the Paris-based artist Tatiana Trouvé tackles the uncer… Read More

Overwhelmed

It’s quixotic, not to say risky, to try to derive broad cultural conclusions from a day’s sweep of the… Read More

Peter Campus Image and Self

The artist Bill Viola brings his knowledge of digital technology and Buddhism to this appreciation of … Read More

DECODING IMAGES

Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy Anton Kern Gallery, New York.

Currently at Anton Kern Gallery, Brian Calvin exhibits new portraits of young, sl

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FROM THE ARCHIVE

Gerhard Richter: The Day Is Long

Jan 2002 In a conversation with the curator of his forthcoming retrospective, Gerhard Richter looks back on his 40 years as an artist. From his boyhood in East Germany, through his student days in Düsseldorf with Sigmar Polke, Blinky Palermo and others, to the launch of his career and beyond, his self-imposed task remained the same: "to decide what is good and what is bad."

The Dualist: Francis Bacon

Jan 1997 The late Francis Bacon, the subject of a retrospective now on view in Germany, was vehement in his disdain for abstraction and illustration. And yet, the author suggests, these techniques were integral to his presentation of violent imagery.