Postwar German artist Joseph Beuys cemented his reputation for provocative performance art with a 1965 gallery action called “How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare,” in which people could ...

Revolutionary artist Joseph Beuys needs a more structured and better focused documentary than Andres Veiel’s celebratory yet weak tribute. There was a time in the 1970s and early ’80s when ...

Whatever else he was, Joseph Beuys was a charismatic international force in art after World War II. He reinvented assemblage using the detritus of war and poverty, and redefined art not as an ...

The works and environmental activism of German contemporary artist Joseph Beuys will be featured this fall at the Broad as part of the Getty’s PST Art program, which this year focuses on the ...

In the video series #aboutbeuys by the Goethe-Institut, artists deal with the heritage of Joseph Beuys. Among them are the American artist with Senegalese and Mauritanian roots Yacine Tilala and ...

A documentary about German conceptual artist Joseph Beuys wowed the audience at its world premiere in Berlin, depicting him as a creative wizard and provocative prankster who enjoyed challenging ...