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“Bad Beuys”: Artists “Steal” a Joseph Beuys as a Statement About Repatriation

by Andrea Gyorody November 11, 2020November 12, 2020

How better to illustrate the inadequacy of current restitution efforts than to offer up as tribute an object by one of Germany’s most famous artists, who thought art could bring about transformative social change?

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Joseph Beuys’s Only Public Artwork in New York Temporarily Unearthed

by Andrea Gyorody July 6, 2018July 6, 2018

Last weekend, the Beuys stones were removed from their Chelsea location due to construction plans.

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A New Documentary Reveals the Living, Breathing Joseph Beuys

by Daniel Larkin January 22, 2018January 28, 2019

For the first documentary ever made about Beuys, director Andres Veiel dug into the archives, creating a film that is 95% footage of the artist.

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The Unfortunate Timeliness of Joseph Beuys

by Elena Goukassian December 21, 2017December 22, 2017

An exhibition covering major bodies of work reveals his urgent resonance for our troubled times.

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Finally, a Joseph Beuys Documentary

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton November 21, 2017April 29, 2019

A new trailer shared exclusively with Hyperallergic gives a glimpse of Beuys, a new documentary about the legendary conceptual artist.

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Contemplating Perfection and Imperfection at Dia:Beacon

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli July 16, 2016August 3, 2016

A visit last weekend to Dia:Beacon, the vast repository of Minimalist art on the east bank of the Hudson River, brought home once more the complexities and contradictions of a movement whose goal was to be as plain as the nose on your face.

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From Míro’s Studio to Ledger Art, Standouts of the Armory Show’s Modern Section

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton March 3, 2016March 4, 2016

The Armory Show is thought of first and foremost as a venue for buying contemporary art, but on the fair’s southern pier dealers quietly move Modern masterpieces worth millions.

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A Simplistic Survey of Protest Art

by Julia Friedman March 18, 2015March 18, 2015

Zero Tolerance at MoMA PS1 tackles an ambitiously broad subject: the intersection between protest and art.

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Over 500 Joseph Beuys Multiples Go on Rare View in NYC

Avatar photo by Allison Meier March 13, 2015March 18, 2015

From the 1960s until his death in 1986, German artist Joseph Beuys produced some 557 multiples — small-scale portable and affordable pieces that captured an element of his practice.

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The Pursuit of Art, 2014

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli December 27, 2014December 30, 2014

The exhibitions that rippled through our cultural fabric over the past year, at least those occurring in and around New York, have registered the predictable number of highs and lows, though 2014 did manage to plumb one nadir unlikely to be matched for a good long time.

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Putting the ‘No’ in ‘Nostalgia’

Avatar photo by Robert C. Morgan April 23, 2014April 23, 2014

This show at James Fuentes, instigated by various artists associated with an exhibition in 1980 called The Real Estate Show, is a reconstruction of a spontaneous action that began in late 1979.

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‘Paweł Althamer: The Neighbors’ at the New Museum

by Mostafa Heddaya February 12, 2014February 12, 2014

A few blocks east of the New Museum’s skyward stack, a small gallery recently closed a provocative show focused on the final years of Joseph Beuys, the forefather of social sculpture. Though Beuys’ legacy in the social practice(s) of art is as manifold as it is contested, few have assumed his mantle as directly as the Polish sculptor Pawel Althamer.

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