It was in painting that the vexing timescale of the ruin was most accurately broached – ruins, it seemed, spoke as much of the future as of the classical or more recent past. For sure, romantic art is dominated by the sublime vistas of Caspar David...

But the serious money tonight was largely reserved for Gerhard Richter , who one could say is the most bankable living artist on the planet right now. There were a half dozen of his paintings on offer, overwhelmingly in the abstract mode, though “Ice...

Next door in a former muffler shop is François Ghebaly Gallery, one of many galleries along this stretch of Los Angeles road, which houses some of the most important gallery spaces in the city and is also one of the most heavily trafficked by commuters.

Instead, Barber’s models are raw, unaffected, and wildly alive, and they’re often placed in graphic settings or spectacular landscapes. In fact, Barber often makes nature the dominant element of his compositions, much like Caspar David Friedrich and...

Artists featured in the exhibition include Caspar David Friedrich, Philipp Otto Runge, Wilhelm Tischbein, Carl Wilhelm Kolbe, Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Friedrich Overbeck, Peter Cornelius, Karl-Friedrich Schinkel and Johann Christian Reinhart. If...

Local officials are blaming the recent increase in cliff falls on erosion caused by fluctuating weather conditions and rising sea levels. Forever immortalized in canvas by painter Caspar David Friedrich, the chalk cliffs on the German island of Rügen...