The New Leipzig School of painting is being billed as just about the biggest thing in art since oil paint began to come in tubes. Ever since the movement's "discovery" in 2003, when Miami ...

“Life After Death: New Leipzig Paintings from the Rubell Family Collection” at the Frye Art Museum, 704 Terry Ave., Seattle (206-622-9250 or www.fryemuseum,org) through June 3.

Leipzig ignored Western trends such as new media work, conceptual art, and installations. At the Academy, students took seven years of studio-based courses, while many Western art schools turned ...

Leipzig is Bach, Mendelssohn, Wagner. Leipzig is Gewandhaus, Thomaskirche and the opera house. This 1,000-year-old city in Saxony, eastern Germany, reverberates with such an abundance of musical ...

Great art often sprouts in the most oppressive situations. After the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, many artists abandoned East Germany in search of opportunities. But in Leipzig, home of the venerable ...

Often highly political, the New Leipzig School paintings – produced by, appropriately, graduates of the Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts – bear the strong flavor of Leipzig’s history behind ...

In 1990, the Leipzig artist Neo Rauch, now the éminence grise of the New Leipzig School, won the annual art prize offered by the town's newspaper, the Leipziger Volkszeitung.

Although so-called art experts regularly proclaim the death of painting, the medium defiantly lives on, constantly evolving and responding to an ever-changing art scene and the often-troubled ...

Leipzig is in the throes of an art boom. The collecting world is buzzing with stories about a group of young painters collectively known as the "New Leipzig School," and about a place called the ...