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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 -
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
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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 -
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
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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 -
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
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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 -
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
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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 -
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
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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 -
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
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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 -
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
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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 -
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
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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 -
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
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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 -
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 Read more
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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 -
Regular appetites mix it up with Thiebaud's mechanics
San Francisco Chronicle | By Kenneth Baker June 2, 2012 Wayne Thiebaud: Paintings and Pastels at the John Berggruen Gallery might suggest that the gallery now represents the dean of... Read more -
Nathan Oliveira, 81, Dies
The New York Times | By William Grimes November 19, 2010 Nathan Oliveira, a leading Bay Area artist who achieved national prominence fusing Abstract Expressionism and figuration in psychologically charged canvases... Read more
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Where's The Ball
ArtNet | By Charlie Finch October 12, 2010 Now that the great painter Isca Greenfield-Sanders is officially represented by Haunch of Venison Gallery, she is unveiling a new... Read more -
Robert Bechtle at John Bergguren Gallery
Daily Serving | By Seth Curcio July 12, 2010 This year, there has been a laundry list of artist curated group shows, from David Salle’s exhibition, Your History is... Read more -
Four shows: How can we know 'What They Wanted'?
San Francisco Chronicle | By Kenneth Baker July 10, 2010 More than a year ago, Jeffrey Fraenkel had an idea for refreshing the conventional gallery summer group show: Ask one... Read more
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Choosy artists choose this: They Knew What They Wanted at four SF galleries
Bay Area Reporter | By Sura Wood July 2, 2010 One has to marvel at the impressive marketing savvy of the four galleries who pooled their resources and p.r., invited... Read more -
Review of They Knew What They Wanted
Art Practical | By Christine Wong Yap July 1, 2010 NOTE: “They Knew What They Wanted” is a group exhibition across four galleries, with four different curators. This review covers... Read more -
They Knew What They Wanted From What Was Available
Art Slant | By Chris Fitzpatrick July 1, 2010 “They Knew What They Wanted” invokes something in-between a hit-man’s overture and a ‘50s girlgroup’s jukebox breakup. But instead the... Read more
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Around the Galleries: Artist as actor as artist
Los Angeles Times | By Leah Ollman November 13, 2009 Alexander Gorlizki's paintings on paper dazzle the eye and tickle the mind. They are intricate beyond comprehension, their filament-thin lines... Read more -
Small Judd show provides just a taste of his ambition
San Francisco Chronicle | By Kenneth Baker May 13, 2006 For several weeks, until its contemporary art auction Tuesday evening, Christie's had on view one of the great spring exhibitions... Read more -
Review of Sky of Blue, Sea of Green
ARTnews | By Deborah Phillips December 5, 2005 This series of ten large-scale 'beach Detail Paintings' (2005) by New York artist Isca Greenfield-Sanders offered a breath of fresh... Read more
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Behind the porn door
SFGate | Jennie Yabroff January 16, 2005 The photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders is sitting at the breakfast table in his East Village townhouse, drinking a cup of tea... Read more -
A Fractured Fairy Tale Set on Broadway
New York Times | By Ted Loos September 12, 2004 TOM OTTERNESS was standing on Broadway near 137th Street the other day, trying not to feel the weight of sculptural... Read more -
Photos, paintings, odd objects find home with Rauschenberg
San Francisco Chronicle | By Kenneth Baker July 17, 2004 Berggruen's small show of paintings and prints by Robert Rauschenberg holds few surprises – beyond the astonishment of the artist's... Read more
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Juan Carlos Quintana: Blinded By Omnipotence
Stretcher Magazine | by Emily Kuenstler June 2, 2004 If I were to speak to Juan Carlos Quintana about these paintings, I’d ask him “Why is cartoon imagery profound?”... Read more -
Christopher Brown Reroutes His Work
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It took years for dealer John Berggruen to lay his hands on some Picasso sketches. His efforts have paid off in a new show.
SF Gate | By Jesse Hamlin March 17, 2004 In 1970, at the age of 89, Pablo Picasso made an exquisite series of 26 erotic drawings over an eight-day... Read more
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Review: Diebenkorn Figurative Works on Paper
San Francisco Chronicle | By Kenneth Baker April 4, 2003 Read more -
Mass appeal / Art comes at visitors from all directions at the S.F. International Art Fair
SF Gate | By Kenneth Baker January 18, 2003 People openly confess to museum fatigue these days – the tiring overstimulation of taking in more art than humanly possible.... Read more -
Willem de Kooning
San Francisco Chronicle | By Kenneth Baker November 12, 2002 Read more
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Man of Steel: Behind the controls of a crane, veteran sculptor Mark di Suvero coaxes tons of metal to curve and bend
ARTNews | By Blake Eskin June 1, 2001 Behind the controls of a crane, veteran sculptor Mark di Suvero coaxes tons of metal to curve and bend. Read more
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