ARTBOOK BLOGEventsStore NewsMuseum Stores of the MonthNew Title ReleasesStaff PicksImage GalleryBooks in the MediaExcerpts & EssaysArtbook InterviewsEx LibrisAt First SightThe Artbook 2023 Gift GuidesArtbook Featured Image ArchiveArtbook D.A.P. Events ArchiveDATE 6/1/2024 There's no such thing as being extra in June! Pride Month Staff Picks 2024DATE 5/13/2024 Rizzoli Bookstore presents Tony Caramanico and Zack Raffin launching 'Montauk Surf Journals'DATE 5/12/2024 Black Feminist World-Building in LaToya Ruby Frazier’s ‘Monuments of Solidarity’DATE 5/10/2024 Artbook at MoMA PS1 Bookstore presents Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez and Juan Ferrer on 'Let's Become Fungal!'DATE 5/8/2024 The World of Tim Burton in rare, archival materialsDATE 5/5/2024 Artbook at Hauser & Wirth LA Bookstore presents Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez and David Horvitz on 'Let's Become Fungal'DATE 5/5/2024 Eugene Richards' eloquent new photobook documenting Green-Wood CemeteryDATE 5/2/2024 Dan Walsh and Bob Nickas to launch 'The Process of Painting' at Paula Cooper GalleryDATE 5/1/2024 A new book on NYC graffiti art legend Lee QuiñonesDATE 5/1/2024 Celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month!DATE 4/30/2024 Rizzoli Bookstore presents Roger A. Deakins with James Ellis Deakins and Matthew Heineman on 'Byways'DATE 4/30/2024 Danny Lyon at Photobook AustinDATE 4/25/2024 Join us at Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair 2024! | AT FIRST SIGHTLEA THOMASSEN | DATE 7/2/2013Method & Math in 'Gerhard Richter: Patterns'Patterns are ever-present elements in our daily lives, and as such, they can easily be taken for granted. Ornate wallpapers that beg you to question the taste of whomever put them up and age-old adages about horizontal stripes making you look chubbier permeate our everyday perceptions. Fashion designers bring their work to life with all manner of patterns, ranging from minimalistic and abstract motifs to delicately hand-painted flowers. But despite their ubiquity, patterns by themselves seem always to remain at the edge of our consciousness, begging the question of what their place really is, and what importance they might carry—in art, as well as popular culture.Gerhard Richter: PatternsD.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers |