A new exhibition at S.M.A.K. explores the decades-long conservation of Wirtschaftswerte, an installation by Joseph Beuys.
In addition to always looking cool in his trademark fedora and fur coats, Joseph Beuys was one of the most influential artists of the mid 20th century. Enigmatic, charming, fervent, obsessive, ...
On October 8, 1972, as part of a “farewell action” to documenta 5 in Kassel, Joseph Beuys entered a boxing ring with local art student Abraham David Christian. Ceremoniously capping off 100 days of ...
Joseph Beuys revolutionized art in Europe after the Second World War like hardly any other artist. Known for quirky and provocative installations and performance pieces like a bathtub covered in fat ...
A new reading of the life and work of Beuys is no hagiography, seeing Beuys as someone who was fiercely determined and created myths about himself ...
Joseph Beuys in Beuys (image copyright bpk, Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung, Stiftung Museum Schloss Moyland and Ute Klophaus, courtesy of Zero One Film and Kino Lorber) Shockingly, despite this ...
LOS ANGELES — In the last few years, many artists and critics — often those who are White and male — have chastised the art world for being too focused on identity. Two include Dean Kissick, who ...
When he was active, Joseph Beuys (1921-86) was the art star of post-war Germany. The son of a civil servant, he claimed to have survived a plane crash in Crimea while serving in the Luftwaffe during ...
In the photograph, Joseph Beuys is still a boyish young German man in the uniform of a non-commissioned officer. He's standing at the edge of a group of soldiers, an almost proud-looking smile on his ...
The 20th-century German artist Joseph Beuys helped to overturn the idea of art as something to hang on a museum wall or stand on a pedestal. Known for his enormous installations and series of ...
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