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Sept. 28, 2009
Movies
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 window at Beuys, his head covered in honey and gold leaf, as he talked about art to a hare carcass.
Feb. 22, 2018
Entertainment & Arts
In the United States, and especially outside New York, Joseph Beuys remains very much a mystery man.
June 9, 1993
Sept. 29, 2009
No one played a greater role in the recent renaissance of German art than the sculptor, performer and political activist Joseph Beuys.
Feb. 2, 1986
Joseph Beuys, one of the most prominent, controversial and colorful figures in West Germany’s postwar avant-garde art world, has died at age 65, it was announced.
Jan. 31, 1986
Beuys Coup: The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis has purchased a collection of 437 works by Joseph Beuys, one of the preeminent artists of postwar Germany.
Jan. 26, 1993
So the director says to the playwright: “I see them all as rabbits.” “Really?”
Oct. 16, 2016
The collection adds 570 key works by the German artist.
May 4, 2006
A 5-pound sculpture made out of butter that has gone rancid is not art, a court ruled today.
Nov. 21, 1988