1970 Onward

Susan Rothenberg1945– | AMERICAN | OILS; ACRYLICS; PRINTS; DRAWINGS Rothenberg is a former dancer who came to prominence as a painter in the mid-1970s, whose work is now much displayed. Her large-scale works usually contain a human or animal form emerging from a hazy background on the point of mutating into something else. Her work is weird, vaguely disturbing, and symptomatic of the American love of anxious self-analysis. Susan Rothenberg Black Blocks, 1977, Acrylic on canva

Jörg Immendorff1945–2007 | GERMAN | OILS; SCULPTURE Immendorff produced heavily painted Expressionist work that is essentially traditional and derivative of Beckmann and 1920s German Expressionism. He addressed political issues such as the divided Germany or the environment. Typical imagery within his work is a café interior with an anonymous crowd and symbolism of watchtowers, uniforms, barbed wire, and eagles. The Rakes’ Progress , 1992 (New Jersey: World House Gallery) Jör

Jean-Michel Basquiat1960–88 | AMERICAN | ACRYLICS; MIXED MEDIA; COLLAGE Basquiat was a young, black, middle-class New Yorker, who died of a drug overdose aged 28. He was a frenzied and prolific self-taught artist whose work powerfully reflected the obsessions and conflicts of his city and his decade. Basquiat’s large-scale work has the appearance, content, and crudity of graffiti on buildings (he began his career by secretly and illegally painting on public buildings). Their

Gerhard Richter: Painting at the Edge of Perception

Christo & Jeanne-Claude1935– AND 1935–2009 | AMERICANSCULPTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL ART Christo and Jeanne-Claude—a husband and wife partnership based in New York—traveled the world to create highly original, memorable projects. They wrapped objects. They started in 1958 with small items and moved on to very large ones in 1961, including wrapping the Pont Neuf in Paris and the Reichstag in Berlin, in fabric and ropes, which both suggest and conceal the thing wrapped. They also crea