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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

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

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

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

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

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

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'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

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

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

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

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

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