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Gerhard Richter: Landschaften

Gerhard Richter, Apfelbäume (Apple Trees) (detail), 1987.

Until July 10
537 W 20th St, New York, NY 10011, United States

Sculptures? Photography? Stained glass windows? Paintings both abstract and photorealistic? The 94-year old Gerhard Richter—whom Jason Farago, in The New York Times, called “this greatest of living painters”—has seemingly done it all. In 2020, the Met Breuer featured Richter as the museum’s final act before closing. Entitled “Gerhard Richter: Painting After All,” the exhibition was considered a double sendoff, as most believed it would also be Richter’s last major exhibition. It wasn’t, as we saw last year when the Fondation Louis Vuitton, in Paris, put up an enormous Richter retrospective. There have also been smaller shows, such as this one at David Zwirner in New York, curated with the artist himself. On view are Richter’s landscape paintings, which he began doing in the 1960s, shown alongside pieces from his long-term “Abstract Paintings” series, completed in 2017. —Jack Sullivan

Private Collection; © Gerhard Richter 2026 (0017)