Sigmar Polke

Best in Show: Ripe With Gripe

"All artists are sort of like con artists” — not.

Originally published: September 10, 2008

Behind the German Blitzkrieg of Pop Art

How Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, and the rest of the German gang took control of the means of reproduction

July 16, 2014

Sigmar Polke’s Aesthetic Escape Velocity on View at MoMA

Polke was a one-man group show, working with a staggering array of materials

April 23, 2014

Pop’s Pop: Andy Warhol and His Followers Rumble into the Met

No need to stop the presses: Everyone already knows that Andy Warhol is the zeitgeist

September 26, 2012

Best in Show: Sigmar Polke’s Chemical Cosmos

Polke transformed what was usually an exacting and laborious printing process into a serendipitous hurly-burly of dark splatters and luminous runnels.

Originally published: August 10, 2011

Mad Worlds: Sigmar Polke and Harvey Kurtzman

While it’s mostly other painters, insightful curators, and savvy gallery-goers who know Polke, everybody has been touched by Harvey Kurtzman even if they’ve never read his signature creation, MAD magazine

June 10, 2009

Edward Hopper, Lonely Guy

June 24, 2008

Dandy

April 18, 2006

A Renaissance man creates alchemy with paint and steel

April 6, 2004

Something Wild

December 18, 2001