‪‬Gerhard Richter retrospective walk-through at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie canceled due paparazzi mob, one day after the artist’s 80th birthday [AO Newslink]

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Installation Shot, Jenny Holzer “Retro” at Skarstedt Gallery. All images courtesy Skarstedt Gallery and Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.

Currently on view at Skarstedt Gallery, through December 18th, is Retro, an exhibition of truisms by Jenny Holzer. The exhibition, which is comprised of benches, plaques, painted signs, electronic LED signs and a sarcophagus, covers a decade of Holzer’s oeuvre from the late 1970’s to the late 1980’s. It aims to reintroduce the diverse use of media comprising Holzer’s historically iconographic works, as well as explore the use of text and language throughout the artist’s early career.

Installation shot, Jenny Holzer’s “Retro” at Skarstedt Gallery.

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The German business couple Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch have lent significant pieces of Surrealist and early-American Abstract Expressionist art from their own collection for an exhibition entitled “Picture Dreams,” at Berlin’s new National Gallery. The ‘Pietzsch Collection,’ which ranks internationally as one of the most significant assortments of Surrealist and Abstract Expressionist art, was assembled over the course of 45 years to include more than 300 paintings, sculptures, and photos.

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Picture Dreams.Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch Collection. [Neue Nationalgalerie]
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Surrealism In All Its Weird Glory. [Financial Times]
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Berlin, Mon Amour [ArtNet]
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Rare Surrealist Art Collection Goes on Display in Berlin [Monsters and Critics]
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Interview with Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch. [BilderTraume]

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Henry VIII, Hiroshi Sugimoto (1999) via Artknowledgenews

Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie presents a retrospective on the work of Japanese artist, Hiroshi Sugimoto. The exhibition consists of 70 black and white photographs, and one sculpture. Sugimoto has worked almost exclusively with the medium of black and white photography for over 30 years, and has worked with a wide variety of subjects. After staying at the Neue Nationalgalerie through October 5, the retrospective will travel to Düsseldorf, Salzburg and Lucerne.

View an interview with Hiroshi Sugimoto here [PBS Art21]
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Vampires, Spooks, Beasts Hang Out in Surreal New Berlin Home [Bloomberg]
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Hiroshi Sugimoto Retrospective, Berlin [Artshub]
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Hiroshi Sugimoto Retrospective in Berlin [Art21]
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Sugimoto Retrospective Exhibition [Designboom]

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