Gerhard Richter: Museum of Modern Art - New York - painting retrospective exhibition - Brief Article

Gerhard Richter shows come and go with an anodyne regularity; each occasion is more or less gorgeous, more or less intelligent, but a certain tedium has set in. Hence, the Museum of Modern Art's painting retrospective--organized by curator Robert Storr and comprising some 180 works from 1962 to the present--should provide a welcome opportunity for reevaluation and, no doubt, more praise for this canonical figure in contemporary art.

Richter's achievement, when considered in full, should more than offset the cookiecutter, by-the-yard collector's chic that too often seems his stock-in-trade. Feb. 14-May 21; Art Institute of Chicago, June 22-Sept. 15; SF MOMA, Oct. 11-Jan. 14, 2003; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC, Feb. 20, 2003-May 18, 2003.

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