ARTBOOK BLOGEventsStore NewsMuseum Stores of the MonthNew Title ReleasesStaff PicksImage GalleryBooks in the MediaExcerpts & EssaysArtbook InterviewsEx LibrisAt First SightThe Artbook 2024 Gift GuidesArtbook Featured Image ArchiveArtbook D.A.P. Events ArchiveDATE 6/25/2025 Rizzoli presents Anderson Zaca with Thom (Panzi) Hansen for the NYC launch of 'Fire Island Invasion: A Day of Independence'DATE 6/21/2025 ICP Photobook Club presents Anderson Zaca on 'Fire Island Invasion'DATE 6/15/2025 Gasoline and Magic for Father's Day, 2025DATE 6/13/2025 In Nydia Blas' 'Love, You Came from Greatness,' the title says it allDATE 6/12/2025 'Gordon Parks: Segregation Story' is Back in Stock!DATE 6/9/2025 Four decades of previously unpublished work by Bruce DavidsonDATE 6/8/2025 Artbook at MoMA PS1 Bookstore presents J. Hoberman and Melissa Rachleff Burtt on 'Everything is Now'DATE 6/7/2025 Artbook at MoMA PS1 Bookstore presents Jeanette Spicer launching 'To the Ends of the Earth'DATE 6/5/2025 A love letter from Robert FrankDATE 6/2/2025 Exact Change launches Chris Marker's 'Immemory: Gutenberg Version'DATE 6/1/2025 Inspiration for now in 'Gran Fury: Art Is Not Enough'DATE 6/1/2025 Pride Month Staff Picks 2025!DATE 5/29/2025 Feel-good color photography in 'Chromotherapia' | 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 |