A series of portraits of Joseph Beuys created by Andy Warhol during the 1980s are currently on view at London’s Thaddaeus Ropac, as part of an exhibition that delves into the relationship between the ...

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 ...

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"Socio-economic illumination, enabled by the evolutionary process of thought, was Beuys’ end-goal," writes Kara L. Rooney in her substantial catalogue essay for Joseph Beuys: Process 1971–1985, the ...

Installation view: “Joseph Beuys, In Defense of Nature” at The Broad in Los Angeles. Photo by Joshua White/JWPictures.com, courtesy of The Broad Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a ...

Over 400 artworks created by German artist and activist Joseph Beuys are on display at The Broad and showcase his desire to improve the world through art inspired by his experiences in WWII. (Joshua ...

Joseph Beuys is a canonical postwar artist, but was he really as progressive and enlightened as we’ve come to believe, and as he led us to think? A new biography of the artist, written by German-born ...

Getting a clear picture of Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) can feel impossible—the German artist was a perennial shapeshifter whose omnivorous interests and radical approaches make him impossible to neatly ...

Joseph Beuys was a leading German Conceptual and performance artist. Known for his highly original and controversial themes, his practice of “social sculpture” attempted to make art more democratic by ...

As the British Museum opens Hawaiʻi: a kingdom crossing oceans, Ben Luke takes a tour of the exhibition with the museum’s head of Oceania, Alice Christophe. We also hear about the museum’s fresh ...

A man enters a hushed gallery, cradling a lifeless hare, its fur soft but cold. His face glistens with sticky honey and gold leaf, casting a faint, sweet scent into the still air. He leans close to ...

Designer Yusuke Takahashi leaned in a dressier, more sculptural direction inspired by Joseph Beuys’ theory of social sculptures.