The Met Breuer in New York City has launched a monumental survey on the work of seminal German visual artist, Gerhard Richter. Titled “Gerhard Richter: Painting After All,” the comprehensive exhibition displays over 100 pieces in varying media including Richter’s famed, conceptually-driven paintings. The presentation marks the artist’s first show in the United States in nearly 20 years.

In these images, a cloud of smoke hangs in various interior settings. The nebulous mass hovers along sharp edges and rigid definitions, appearing as a possible threat to what might be the interior of a home or an office.

Shirin Neshat, Iranian-born though living in New York, has captured audiences around the world with her visually haunting black and white videos of loss and yearning. Three of her recent works, Illusions and Mirrors of 2013 (which stars Natalie Portman), Roja and Sarah, both of 2016, are on view at the National Gallery of Victoria until April.

The fair’s only Turkish gallery, Dirimart, exhibits a series of amorphous bronze sculptures by prominent Turkish contemporary artist, Ayse Erkmen. In various shapes and pastel hues, nine miniature terrain-like sculptures from the artist’s not the color it is series (2015) are exhibited on a pedestal, just inches above the floor.

If the idea of not being able to leave the house makes you stir crazy, Artnet has put together a selection of artworks to set your mind at ease. Each of these works—some historical, some contemporary—serves as a reminder of the quietly enjoyable ways of passing time of home, such as reading a book, playing board games, and indulging in a midnight snack.

Major events around the world have been canceled or postponed as the race to contain the novel coronavirus continues. The cultural sector -- with its numerous fairs, shows and festivals -- has also been significantly impacted.Countless art institutions, museums and galleries have been temporarily shuttered. The Louvre in Paris, which houses the famous "Mona Lisa," is closed until further notice.

MUNSTER. Gerhard Richter Ad Yoko Ono, Rosemarie rockel und William Kentridge - für eine Mappe mit zehn Kunstwerken hat der münsterische Galerist und Drucker Mike Karstens mit einigen der weltweit bedeutendsten Künstler zusammengearbeitet. Nach vier Jahren ist das Mappenwerk, dessen Erlös an Amnesty International fließen wird, nun fertig. An diesem Sonntag wird Mike Karstens die Blätter in seiner Galerie präsentieren. Das war eines der schönsten Projekte, die ich je gemacht habe", resümiert er.

‘Land of Dreams’ is the first time that Shirin Neshat has looked to America – where she has lived for 40 years – for the focus of her work. Almost augural, the exhibition opening followed the recent escalation of tensions between her native land, Iran and her adoptive home of the US. Throughout the show, she explores the American dream, as read by an Iranian. Her protagonist, Simin, serves as a guide both in portraiture and film and stands in for Neshat, allowing the artist some objective distance.

Every year since 2014, La Monnaie de Paris (Paris’ former mint), has welcomed a contemporary artist to exhibit over 1000sqm within its beautiful salons, many of which looking out onto the River Seine. Kiki Smith was the artist chosen to show her expansive collection of work in Paris’ famous historic monument for the last year of its contemporary art program. 

An exquisite melancholy has settled upon the galleries of Marcel Breuer’s inverted ziggurat on Madison Avenue: an air of dashed aspirations, commitment and farewell. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which rented Breuer’s granite fortress from the relocated Whitney Museum of American Art in 2015, will be vacating the building in July, three years ahead of schedule. (Costs were too high.)

“Birkenau.” The dread name—of the main death facilities at Auschwitz—entitles four large abstract paintings and four full-sized digital reproductions of them in the last gallery of “Painting After All,” a peculiarly solemn Gerhard Richter retrospective at the Met Breuer. 

The artist, who lives in the US, says she still feels like an American—even in the age of Trump.

I recognized Shirin Neshat by her black kohl eyeliner, which frames her kind eyes like war paint.

We met at Goodman Gallery in London, where the veteran artist is presenting a new body of work in her first solo exhibition in the city in two decades….