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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 -
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
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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 -
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
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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 -
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
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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
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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 -
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
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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 -
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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Mark di Suvero takes root at Crissy Field
San Francisco Chronicle | By Sam Whiting May 11, 2013 Two years ago, sculptor Mark di Suvero gave a public talk at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art describing... 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 -
Wiley, Westermann's visions converge at Berggruen
San Francisco Chronicle | By Kenneth Baker December 11, 2010 Why has it never occurred to me to connect the work of William T. Wiley and that of H.C. Westermann?... Read more
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Review: William T. Wiley and H.C. Westermann at John Berggruen Gallery
Art Bay Area Blog | By Cherie Louise Turner November 17, 2010 This funky, fun show (on view through December 18, 2010) highlights work by two highly accomplished and similarly offbeat artists,... Read more -
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
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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 -
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
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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 -
Stylemaker Spotlight: Suzanne Tucker
San Francisco Chronicle | By Anh-Minh Le May 16, 2010 Elegant meets approachable There’s no slowing down Suzanne Tucker. The interior designer published her first book in September, recently launched... Read more -
Berggruen’s gallery goes back into color fields
San Francisco Chronicle | By Kenneth Baker April 24, 2010 Anyone who wants a taste of how it felt to walk into a blue-chip gallery in midtown Manhattan circa 1968... 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 -
What set Bay Area painters apart in ’60s
SF Datebook | By Kenneth Baker January 24, 2009 The visceral character of Bay Area painting, circa 1960, gets strong and proper emphasis in Abstract and Figurative: Highlights of... 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
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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 -
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
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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 -
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 -
Review: Diebenkorn Figurative Works on Paper
San Francisco Chronicle | By Kenneth Baker April 4, 2003 Read more
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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
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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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