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 ...

A forest of 100 young oaks has taken root on the terrace outside Tate Modern, where it will remain throughout the summer until 14 November. But these are no ordinary trees. They are the direct progeny ...

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 ...

Joseph Beuys was a draftsman, sculptor, performance and installation artist, teacher, politician, and activist – and one of the most important artists of the 20th century. His art continues to have an ...

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 Joseph ...

‘Joseph Beuys: Multiples from the Reinhard Schlegel Collection’ at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, with “Sled” (1969) in the foreground (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) From the 1960s until his ...

Berlin - "Don't trust anyone over 100", was a popular saying among the young as a way to protest the conventional in the 1990s. And Joseph Beuys' unconventional, expanded concept of art still appeals ...