Madrid’s Museo del Prado is hosting the debut solo show for German painter and photographer Sigmar Polke in the Spanish capital, 14 years after the artist’s death from cancer. “Affinities Revealed” ...
Installation view, ‘Alibis: Sigmar Polke 1963–2010’ at the Museum of Modern Art, April 19–August 3, 2014 (© 2014 The Museum of Modern Art, photo by Jonathan ...
An artist who worked with every medium imaginable, it is hardly surprising that Sigmar Polke’s irreverent experimentations extended to photography and its possibilities. At the Paris Photo fair this ...
Sigmar Polke, “Pille” (1976), gouache, metallic, enamel, and acrylic paints on paper and canvas, 207 x 295 cm (© The Estate of Sigmar Polke / VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2015) COLOGNE, Germany — Sigmar Polke ...
Installation view of “Alibis: Sigmar Polke 1963–2010,” The Museum of Modern Art, April 19–August 3, 2014. © 2014 The Museum of Modern Art. Photo: Jonathan ...
Polke meets an Italian: "Untitled (Palermo)," 1976. Whether his lens was focused on his own abstract drawings or capturing skeletons moldering away in the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, German painter ...
When Sigmar Polke, giant of the postwar art world, passed away on Friday, New York’s Jerry Saltz asked artists, critics, and curators to remember him. We’ve collected many of their thoughts below.
In many ways, the career of the late Sigmar Polke was one long battle with tradition, in which the German artist viewed the inherited rules of painting as a series of dares to be transgressed. The ...
The German artist Sigmar Polke, who has died aged 69 of complications caused by cancer, gave pop art the sharp political edge that was often lacking in the work of his British and American equivalents ...
The opening days of TEFAF Maastricht 2026 have reaffirmed the fair’s position as the world’s pre-eminent marketplace for art. VeneKlasen, New York is presenting Sigmar Polke: The Dream of Menelaus, ...
Polke's influence on late 20th century Western art can be equated with that of Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol due to the sheer diversity of his work and his obsessive quest to ...
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