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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Thaddaeus Ropac has come a long way since he was one of Joseph Beuys’s interns more than three decades ago. Today, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac announced that it will represent the estate of the ...

Joseph Beuys, born in Krefeld, Germany, in 1921, was a pioneering conceptual artist and sculptor. His career was marked by a deep belief in the transformative power of art. Beuys studied at the ...

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 peer into a ...

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 ...