A new exhibition at S.M.A.K. explores the decades-long conservation of Wirtschaftswerte, an installation by Joseph Beuys.

Painter, sculptor, and conceptualist Joseph Beuys is one of the most influential artists of the latter half of the 20th century. Beuys was born in 1921 in Kleve, Germany, making him just the right age ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...