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The Many Colors of Anna Kunz
Chicago Gallery News | By Alison Reilly March 29, 2023 In 2022, Anna Kunz stepped down as Associate Professor in the Art and Art History department at Columbia College. Throughout... Read more -
Stephanie H. Shih’s ceramics imbue simple objects with meaning, beauty
SF Chronicle Datebook | By Letha Ch'ien March 9, 2023 Artist Stephanie H. Shih’s work is seemingly everywhere these days, but her latest show, “Greetings From Gold Mountain” at the... Read more -
Diana Al-Hadid’s Nostalgic Tribute to Penn Station
Hyperallergic | By Taylor Michael January 30, 2023 Some New York City commuters and tourists traveling through Manhattan’s 34th Street–Pennsylvania Station will now discover Diana Al-Hadid’s new mosaic... Read more
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San Francisco’s ‘unofficial art week’ returns. Here are 12 highlights not to miss
SF Chronicle Datebook | By Tony Bravo January 22, 2023 Over the past decade, the third week of January has become an unofficial art week in San Francisco. Anchored by... Read more -
At FOG Design and Art Fair, Efforts to Court the ‘Independent-Minded’ Collector Pay Off in Brisk Sales and a Buoyant Mood
Art Net | By Sarah Cascone January 19, 2023 The reports of the San Francisco art scene’s death are greatly exaggerated. That was the consensus at the opening night... Read more -
Ceramic Artist Stephanie H. Shih Recreates Food Products in Clay to Explore Cultural Identity
Creative Boom | By Olivia Atkins January 11, 2023 'Clay is the most direct route from what's in your head to what's in your hands,' said a friend of... Read more
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Sharón Zoldan Shares Her Miami 2022 Highlights
Whitewall | By Sharón Zoldan December 7, 2022 Charles Gaines at Max Hetzler and Berggruen, Art Basel Miami Beach Although the artist defers to a formulaic approach to... Read more -
Tour NBA Star Andre Iguodala’s Serene Bay Area Home
Architectural Digest | By Laura May Todd November 8, 2022 When a Bay Area family contacted Oakland-based Redmond Aldrich Design to devise their dream home, the wife, Christina, didn’t share... Read more -
Clare Kirkconnell | St. Helena artist’s paintings on exhibit in San Francisco
St. Helena Star | By Jesse Duarte August 23, 2022 For many of us the pandemic has been a time of frustrating isolation, misery and mental stagnation. For St. Helena... Read more
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The Pioneering Legacy of Henri Matisse's Jazz
Artsper Magazine | By Balasz Takac April 6, 2022 By the 1940s, jazz music gained a broader appreciation and became adorned despite being demonized by the Nazis. It influenced... Read more -
Wayne Thiebaud exhibition is a memorial that will leave you smiling
San Francisco Examiner | By Max Blue February 18, 2022 Thirty works by the late, great Bay Area painter are at the Berggruen Gallery The late Wayne Thiebaud, who passed... Read more -
7 Bay Area Arts and Entertainment Events to Check Out This Week
San Francisco Chronicle | By Tony Bravo January 31, 2022 San Francisco native Peter Saul shares trippy visions of his hometown at the Berggruen Gallery Read more
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True Colors: The San Francisco Billionaire (Would-Be) Art Bonanza
Vanity Fair | By Nate Freeman January 21, 2022 True Colors is back for 2022 and on the ground in San Francisco, where Fog art fair asks the eternal... Read more -
A Look Into Peter Saul's "San Francisco"
Juxtapoz Magazine | By Evan Pricco January 12, 2022 San Francisco, as a landscape, is one of the most unique cities on earth. Only 7 x 7 miles, with... Read more -
Wayne Thiebaud, Famed Pop Art Painter, Dies at 101
San Francisco Chronicle | By Sam Whiting and Kenneth Baker December 26, 2021 Wayne Thiebaud, internationally known as the dean of West Coast Figurative painters who also was credited with originating Pop art,... Read more
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The Best of The Art Show 2021
White Hot Magazine | By Paul Laster November 1, 2021 Presenting a lively selection of contemporary and modernist artworks by an international mix of artists, the 2021 edition of The... Read more -
Meet 7 Realist Painters Who Create Impossibly Vivid Still Lifes
1st Dibs | By Alexandra Zagalsky September 26, 2021 Here's how contemporary artists are updating the ancient techniques of realist still-life painting for the present day. The famed 20th-century... Read more -
Going Bicoastal
HAMPTONS Modern Luxury Magazine | By Rachel Feinblatt July 22, 2021 Inspired by fond memories of summer vacation in the Hamptons, John Berggruen, founder and owner of San Francisco-based art oasis... Read more
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Remembering Gretchen Berggruen, ‘the heart and soul’ of one of San Francisco’s most influential galleries
Christie's July 2, 2021 The beloved Berggruen matriarch championed artists ranging from Wayne Thiebaud and Mark di Suvero to Helen Frankenthaler and Lorna Simpson.... Read more -
Shades of Summer
Cultured Magazine | July Issue July 1, 2021 San Francisco's Berggruen Gallery is coming to the beach. From May 14 to Septemer 30, the pop-up gallery will exhibit... Read more -
The Hamptons Guide
Goop July 1, 2021 The Hamptons’ roster of greatest hits—Italian spreads at Nick & Toni’s, the lobster roll of a lifetime at Duryea’s, a... Read more
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Berggruen Gallery to Open East Hampton Location
ARTnews | By Claire Selvin and Tessa Solomon May 10, 2021 Berggruen Gallery to Open East Hampton Location. San Francisco–based Berggruen Gallery will be open a temporary exhibition space in East... Read more -
How Helen Frankenthaler’s Color-Soaked Canvases Won Over the Art Market
Artsy | By Justin Kamp April 19, 2021 This past June, at a Sotheby's dedicated online sale of works from the collection of Ginny Williams, Helen Frankenthaler's monumental... Read more -
Richard Diebenkorn | 7 Bay Area arts & entertainment events to check out this week
SF Chronicle Datebook | By Tony Bravo April 19, 2021 Richard Diebenkorn: Paintings and Works on Paper, 1948-1992 enters its final weeks at Berggruen Gallery, and a recent tour of... Read more
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Berggruen Gallery in East Hampton
ArtNet News | By Nate Freeman April 15, 2021 Spring is here and it’s almost time once again to ship off to the Hamptons for the season. And thanks... Read more -
Richard Diebenkorn | Art & Exhibits Datebook Pick
SF Chronicle Datebook | By Tony Bravo February 18, 2021 The work of famed Bay Area artist Richard Diebenkorn returned to Berggruen Gallery for a ninth solo show this month,... Read more -
Bruce Cohen Explores Pandemic Interiors at Berggruen Gallery
San Francisco Chronicle | By Tony Bravo December 18, 2020 California artist Bruce Cohen presents his tenth solo exhibition with the Berggruen Gallery, titled Bruce Cohen 2020 . The show,... Read more
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Exhibition of recent paintings by California artist Bruce Cohen opens at Berggruen Gallery
ArtDaily December 6, 2020 Berggruen Gallery is presenting Bruce Cohen 2020 , an exhibition of recent paintings by California artist Bruce Cohen. This show... Read more -
‘Enjoy It When You Have It, But Don’t Have Too Much’: Artist Wayne Thiebaud on How to Savor Cake While Staying Healthy at 100 Years Old
ArtNet News | By Sarah Cascone November 13, 2020 The celebrated American painter's birthday is being marked in his hometown of Sacramento with a delightful retrospective. On November 15,... Read more -
Wayne Thiebaud’s Vision of American Beauty As he turns 100, the California artist’s paintings of cakes, pies and other ordinary diner fare have become iconic
Wall Street Journal | By Emily Bobrow November 6, 2020 In 1960, when Wayne Thiebaud was turning 40, he had what he sensed was an artistic breakthrough. After years supporting... Read more
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Having His Cake and Eating It, Too
Alta | By Jessica Zack October 12, 2020 Wayne Thiebaud shook up the art world in 1962 with paintings that were joyous, confectionary, and uniquely Californian. Since then,... Read more -
Of course Wayne Thiebaud is planning to paint on his 100th birthday
San Francisco Chronicle | By Sam Whiting October 7, 2020 Wayne Thiebaud will begin his 101st year by arising before first light, making the morning commute upstairs to his home... Read more -
Wayne Thiebaud saw the streets of San Francisco like no one else
San Francisco Chronicle | By Sam Whiting October 7, 2020 In 1972, Sacramento painter Wayne Thiebaud bought a second home on Potrero Hill and set about doing for the hilly... Read more
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Wayne Thiebaud's "Double Scoop"
The New Yorker | By Françoise Mouly August 10, 2020 Wayne Thiebaud is nearly a hundred years old, and he has spent the majority of those years painting. Those paintings—with... Read more -
Diana Al-Hadid and Physical Materiality
The Gazelle NYU Abu Dhabi | By Vamika Sinha April 19, 2020 This article is part of a temporary column in collaboration with The NYUAD Art Gallery featuring 5 Arab women artists... Read more -
Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Announces $5M COVID-19 Relief Fund
ArtNews | By Maximilíano Durón April 2, 2020 As the impacts of the coronavirus crisis continues to roil the art world, more and more grant-giving organizations have announced... Read more
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The Constellation of Frank Stella
New York Times Style Magazine | By Megan O'Grady March 18, 2020 STARS — THE KIND that appear in the cosmos — have coordinates, not addresses, and the same is true for... Read more -
Do it for the ‘Gram: Predicting SF art week’s Instagram favorite
San Francisco Chronicle Datebook | By Tony Bravo January 20, 2020 There’s a game I play at art fairs: Predict what the social media standout will be, then check Instagram to... Read more -
10 Standout Dealers at FOG Design+Art
Architectural Digest | By David Nash January 17, 2020 Now in its seventh year, FOG Design+Art, San Francisco’s premier contemporary design fair, has clearly hit its stride with a... Read more
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Insider Tips: John Berggruen
Whitewall | Whitewaller San Francisco 2020 January 16, 2020 In order to give you the best of San Francisco, Whitewaller spoke with John Berggruen, who shared his side of... Read more -
Artist Talk: Suzanne Hudson and Sarah Roberts on Helen Frankenthaler
Audio Recording | Berggruen Gallery November 6, 2019 Berggruen Gallery is proud to present an evening of conversation and education regarding one of the twentieth century's preeminent painters,... Read more -
Alexander Berggruen: Tour the New NYC Art Gallery Industry Insiders Have Their Eyes On
Architectural Digest | By Liddy Berman October 11, 2019 At just 31, Alex Berggruen is one of the few who claim a lifetime’s experience in the art world. The... Read more
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The Top 8 Fall Art Shows for Architecture Lovers
Architectural Digest | By Liddy Berman September 12, 2019 On the West Coast, San Francisco’s Berggruen Gallery will open a historic Helen Frankenthaler show on September 26, drawing on... Read more -
Alexander Berggruen: From Chelsea to the Upper East Side, New York’s Gallery Landscape Is Getting a Makeover Ahead of the Fall Season
Artnet News | By Eileen Kinsella August 11, 2019 Fresh Blood Uptown The gallery landscape is shifting uptown, too. Art dealer and former Christie’s associate vice president Alexander Berggruen... Read more -
The Women Who Invented Collage – Long Before Picasso and Co.
The Spectator | By Claudia Massie July 6, 2019 The women who invented collage – long before Picasso and co. Denied the opportunity to paint or sculpt, well-to-do ladies... Read more
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The Unexpected and Influential Berggruen Gallery
Living YBG May 9, 2019 Barely a stone’s throw from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, I recently discovered Berggruen Gallery, a three-story art... Read more -
Martin Puryear, Citizen-Sculptor
The New York Times | By Holland Cotter May 3, 2019 On the eve of the Venice Biennale, the artist’s shaping hand frames a view of his troubled, and troubling, homeland.... Read more -
The Arches of Old Penn Station Return in Diana Al-Hadid’s Subway Mosaics
Hyperallergic | By Zachary Small May 1, 2019 The permanent installations line the mezzanines at the 34th Street Penn Station stop with fluid line work and ghostly presence.... Read more
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Liam Everett: The art of obstruction
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art February 7, 2019 Artist Liam Everett, one of SFMOMA’s 2017 SECA Art Award winners , explains his use of furniture and loose materials... Read more -
As the Fog settled over SF, some asked, ‘Where’s the art?’
San Francisco Chronicle Date Book | By Charles Desmarais January 23, 2019 Berggruen Gallery’s invigorating exhibition of free-standing sculptures, wall works and drawings by Diana Al-Hadid looks complete unto itself, encompassing a... Read more -
Martin Puryear Chosen for U.S. Pavillion at Venice Biennale
New York Times | By Robin Pogrebin August 15, 2018 Like athletes who make the team at the Olympics, the selection of an artist to represent the United States at... Read more
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4 art gallery exhibitions for summer
San Francisco Gate | By Charles Desmarais June 25, 2018 Before it closes this Saturday, June 23, try to see the dozen colorful paintings by Shara Hughes on view at... Read more -
Spencer Finch makes art of light at Berggruen
San Francisco Chronicle | By Charles Desmarais April 6, 2018 There are words a critic should use advisedly. “Entrancing” might be one. But how else to describe art that, like... Read more -
Fall Season Brings Rich Gallery Offerings
San Francisco Chronicle | By Charles Desmarais September 13, 2017 One sure sign the Bay Area art gallery scene has reached a new stage in its maturation: The sheer impossibility... Read more
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Julie Mehretu's New Monumental Commission for SFMOMA Now on View
The New York Times | By Hilarie M. Sheets August 3, 2017 In an Unused Harlem Church, a Towering Work of a ‘Genius’ Julie Mehretu, a MacArthur Foundation “genius,” is executing a... Read more -
Best Group Shows of the Summer from London to the Hamptons
Cultured Magazine July 14, 2017 Botánica , a new group exhibition at Berggruen Gallery, takes its name from the herbal medicine shops that once defined... Read more -
Gallery Chat: John Berggruen, Preeminent San Francisco Art Dealer for 47 Years on the New Space Near SFMOMA, San Francisco’s Contemporary Art Market and More
The Art Dealers Association of America | By Nicole Casamento June 13, 2017 John Berggruen Gallery’s history is synonymous with the growth of San Francisco’s art market. Though Berggruen started his eponymous gallery... Read more
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At Tea With the Legendary Painter Wayne Thiebaud
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Gallerists John and Gretchen Berggruen find a new opportunity in San Francisco
Wallpaper* Magazine | By By Hunter Drohojowska-Philp April 2, 2017 After 45 years of showing modern and contemporary art at their gallery near Union Square, now San Francisco’s hub of... Read more -
Alicia McCarthy’s free spirit on display at Berggruen
San Francisco Chronicle | By Charles Desmarais March 17, 2017 Alicia McCarthy has occupied a near-legendary place among artists in the Bay Area for more than two decades, first as... Read more
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John Berggruen’s Latest Opening Is His Own
1stdibs: Introspective Magazine | By Kenneth Baker February 6, 2017 The veteran art dealer, along with his wife and business partner, Gretchen, has launched a multistory gallery in San Francisco.... Read more -
Good things in threes: New S.F. galleries bloom
San Francisco Chronicle February 3, 2017 The weekend in January that saw two big art fairs and a spate of new exhibitions across the Bay Area... Read more -
Berggruen Gallery Reopening with Buoyant Show in New Space
San Francisco Chronicle | By Charles Desmarais January 13, 2017 The eagerly awaited, relocated and reconceived Berggruen Gallery opens this week with an exhibition on a tried-and-true theme. The Human... Read more
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Untitled and Berggruen: homage to art and art-lovers and dealers
SFGate | By Leah Garchik January 13, 2017 Dodging raindrops and jumping over puddles, intrepid art-lovers splashed over to Pier 70 Thursday, Jan. 12, for the opening of... Read more -
New Fairs and Blue Chip Dealers Descend on San Francisco to End Debate Over City’s Art Market
Artsy | By Anny Shaw January 10, 2017 Living up to the city’s moniker, 2016 was a golden year for San Francisco’s art scene. In May the San... Read more -
San Francisco’s stellar John Berggruen Gallery reopens
Financial Times | By Christina Ohly Evans January 9, 2017 The Human Form : inaugural show features 20th century masters from Matisse to Hopper San Francisco’s preeminent gallery dedicated to... Read more
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A New San Francisco Gallery Woos Tech’s Elite
The Wall Street Journal | By Alexandra Wolfe December 16, 2016 John and Gretchen Berggruen expand to reach the city's small but growing art market. When John Berggruen told his father,... Read more -
San Francisco’ Berggruen Gallery Will Move to a New Space in January
ArtNews | By Maximilíano Durón November 7, 2016 Today, exactly one year after it announced plans to move to a new space next to the San Francisco Museum... Read more -
Art Dealers Move Out of the Gallery and Into a Taco Bell
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Tour a Modern Classic That Boasts Sophisticated Style Inside and Out
San Francisco Cottages & Gardens | By Linda O'Keeffe September 1, 2016 In a home on a tree-lined, sylvan lane in Ross, familiarity breeds contentment. 'I've created four interiors for this family,”... Read more -
Berggruen presents Bridget Riley’s first S.F. exhibition
SFGate | By Jessica Zack June 14, 2016 As a young London artist in the 1950s, Bridget Riley was painting figurative studies and nature scenes when Georges Seurat’s... Read more -
San Francisco (Not New York) Gave These Artists Their Big Break
Observer | By Alanna Martinez May 23, 2016 Matthew Barney, Marilyn Minter, Kara Walker and Christopher Wool all had their first big shows at the San Francisco Museum... Read more
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San Francisco's BOOMING CULTURESCAPE prepares to bask in the glow of the new SFMОМА
Culture Magazine | By May 1, 2016 As San Francisco gallerist John Berggruen unveils the first solo Bridget Riley exhibition in S.F., motion is on his mind.... Read more -
An Art Scene Evolves in San Francisco Who's Behind It?
ArtNet | By Henri Neuendorf April 23, 2016 There's been a generational shift, for starters. Long before becoming the technology capital of the world, San Francisco and the... Read more -
Martin Puryear to Receive Yaddo Artist Medal
The New York Times | By Andrew R. Chow April 3, 2016 The sculptor Martin Puryear will receive the third annual Yaddo Artist Medal. Yaddo, the artist colony in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.,... Read more
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Oakland man uses art to tame OCD
SF Gate | By Jessica Zack December 30, 2015 The extraordinary degree of photorealistic detail in Ed Loftus’ drawings practically begs viewers to lean in within touching distance of... Read more -
OCD Allows Ed Loftus To Spend 5 Months On Just One Of These Drawings
Fast Company | By Suzanne LaBarre December 19, 2013 At first glimpse, Ed Loftus’s art works look like offbeat photo collages. You’ve got a shiny pile of trash bags... Read more -
50 Under 50: Next Most Collectible Artists
Art + Auction | By Eileen Kinsella June 12, 2013 Last year we set out on what some might call a fool’s errand by selecting the 50 most collectible living... Read more
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In awe of Mark di Suvero at Crissy Field
Art-focused Journalism | by Tyler Green June 12, 2013 From along Lincoln Blvd. , a hundred feet above Crissy Field, the eight sculptures look like Mark di Suvero tiddly... Read more -
Work Outstanding in Its Field
Wall Street Journal | By David Littlejohn June 11, 2013 When, in 1967, he hit on the idea in of making his supersize sculptures out of steel I-beams instead of... Read more
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