joshrobinsonblog:

This video from the Tate is a must-see for art and museum enthusiasts.

Produced for the museum’s new exhibit Gerhard Richter: Panorama, the 22-minute piece embodies many of art’s contradictions. It is elusive and direct, remote and intimate, challenging and accessible, universal and personal.

Perhaps most importantly, it constructs a portrait of Richter that shrinks this giant artist down to human size where we can get a good look at him. 

(I should also note that it fills the need I described in an earlier post about a separate Richter video.)