Painting the unpaintable: Gerhard Richter’s most divisive work returns to Auschwitz
The artist’s Birkenau cycle is based on the only pictures taken by prisoners at the Nazi death camp. As it goes on show next to its source, does it still have the power to shake us?
February 2024
Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
Streaming: the best films about artists
From Wim Wenders’ recent Anselm Kiefer documentary to Kirk Douglas’s tortured Van Gogh and Derek Jarman’s erotic ode to Caravaggio, cinema loves a brush with genius
January 2024
Gerhard Richter review – ‘so disorientating I almost fell over’
Colours fuse and split, curdle, judder and smear in the elusive work of a nonagenarian artist still out to surprise
June 2023
Capturing the Moment review – not a serious exhibition
You can’t move for masterpieces – most of them owned by the Taiwanese collector Pierre Chen – but this supposed journey through painting and photography is rambling and at times comically simplistic
April 2023
The week in classical: Reich/Richter; St John Passion – review
The grand 2019 collaboration between Steve Reich and Gerhard Richter faced stiff competition from an Anna Clyne miniature
June 2022
Haunted Realism review – a queasy, intoxicating view of late capitalism
Steve Reich: Reich/Richter review – intricate riffs on the rhythms of painter’s abstract film
November 2021
From Olafur Eliasson to Gerhard Richter: the art show aiming to unite Europe
Diversity United is a travelling exhibition featuring work by 100 living artists from 34 countries – seeing this monument to liberal values moved our writer to tears
March 2021
Gerhard Richter gives Holocaust art to Berlin
World’s highest-priced artist has given 100 paintings, including his famous Holocaust series in long-term loan
November 2019
Yoko Ono and the freedom fighters – in pictures
Featuring work by Gerhard Richter, Yoko Ono, William Kentridge and more, Art 19 is an Amnesty exhibition inspired by Article 19, which defends freedom of expression. The show tours Europe next month
October 2019
The week in classical: The Mask of Orpheus; Reich/Richter – review
Reich/Richter review – two artists with the power to disrupt time and space
September 2019
Best culture of the 21st century
The best art of the 21st century
Steve McQueen in bed, Ai Weiwei in trouble, Pussy Riot in church and Ragnar Kjartansson in the bath – they’re all included in our countdown of the best art since 2000
July 2019
Mark Kermode's film of the week
Never Look Away review – powerful Gerhard Richter-inspired drama
Never Look Away review – epic but uneven melodrama inspired by Gerhard Richter
April 2019
Hold on to your hard hats: New York's $475m Shed throws open its doors
The escalators need fixing and there’s no bar – but the show must go on, as stars from Ben Whishaw to Steve McQueen open NYC’s first major new arts venue for decades
March 2019
Alex Poots: the Scottish impresario opening NYC’s largest new art space
The former director of the Manchester international festival has a reputation for bringing diverse creative talents together. At Manhattan’s the Shed, he says, everything is up for reinvention
May 2018
Gerhard Richter review – an illuminating mini retrospective
This new gallery’s well-designed interior does justice to the German art star – and extends Britain’s arty south coast
October 2017
Monochrome review – white stripes, shocking yellow and 500 shades of grey
Gerhard Richter: Brisbane show honours German master's irony and influence
