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Birthday Beuys: Stuttgart kicks off Joseph Beuys centenary events and exhibitions
Exhibition at Staatsgalerie revisits the artist's curated opening of the museum's new building, while 20 other institutions are planning shows on the artist
PreviewBook Club
A selection of 2021 art publications—Musa Mayer on her father, Philip Guston; Jean Dubuffet in the spotlight
A monograph on Catherine Opie, an analysis of museums in the 21st century and an overview of Joseph Beuys also make the grade
NewsOpenings
Art in 2021—treats include Dürer blockbuster, new Munch museum and Caravaggio anniversary
Influential works by Duchamp, Picasso and Mondrian also celebrate centenary this year
NewsDia Art Foundation
Dia Chelsea plans to reopen in April after connecting three buildings in a $20m project
Inaugural exhibition in New York will feature a film and light sculptures by Lucy Raven
NewsObituaries
Erich Marx, Berlin collector and patron, dies age 99
His collection of works by Warhol, Twombly, Beuys and Kiefer is on long-term loan to the Berlin museums
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Happy birthday Beuys: German museums band together to celebrate artist’s 2021 centenary
Twenty institutions in 12 cities are planning exhibitions and events for 100th anniversary of Joseph Beuys’s birth
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Thaddaeus Ropac lands Joseph Beuys estate
Deal revealed as major show of German artist opens at gallerist's London space, which includes huge Stag Monuments installation
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The scholarly battle over Beuys
Let’s admit it: without the artist to explain and animate his work, much of it is incomprehensible
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Ruling in Germany’s supreme court on the rights to images of performance art favours museum
Beuys show can go on
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Beuys widow wins in court over contested performance piece pictures
Museum Schloss Moyland lose out again in appeals court
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Interview with Gabriel Orozco: “I am not into artists pretending to be heroes”
The Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco on his work, retrospectives and opening this year’s talks programme
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Beuys returns to Schloss Moyland after refurbishment
Some works will not be on display, lest the museum incur a €250,000 copyright fine
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Harvard Art Museums to research Beuys' multiples
The Harvard museum owns an almost complete set
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Artist’s copyright versus curator’s freedom of expression: The wider legal significance of the Beuys case
The estate of Joseph Beuys has brought the Museum Schloss Moyland to court over photographs of Beuys' performance art
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Museum Schloss Moyland banned from displaying images of Beuys performance
German court rules museum breached artist’s copyright by displaying photographs of 1964 happening
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Beuys’s site-specific work to stay put in Krefeld (for now)
Collector Helga Lauffs has donated the works, subject to conditions
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Copyright dispute over Joseph Beuys show in Germany
The Moyland Castle Museum closed the exhibition but plans to appeal
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Battle over Joseph Beuys collection at Moyland Castle
Widow claims artist’s reputation is being damaged
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German gallery tries to block sale of works by Joseph Beuys
Director says moving the pieces, installed by the artist, would be a “catastrophe”
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Broad Foundation acquires one of the largest groups of work by Beuys in the world
Some will go on show in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art expansion next year
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Interview with Marina Abramovic on her reperformances at the Guggenheim: Back to the classics
The Yugoslav-born artist will re-enact famous performances from the 1970s this month
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News from New York: Major Beuys work tipped for Beacon, while eco-artists discuss decomposition
And Connecticut energy broker Andrew Hall buys Georg Baselitz’s collection of German art
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Joseph Beuys on show at Gagosian Gallery
Works from a private collection will tour both the London and New York arms of the super-gallery
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Gagosian Gallery displays Joseph Beuys in London
Items from the august collection of Dr Rainer Speck now on view
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Beuys multiples acquired by National Galleries of Scotland
This important addition to Scottish collections includes nearly all of his best multiples
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Szeemann's moving Venice Biennale: Video work dominates 49th edition
Our overview also reveals the highs and lows of this year's biennale, which draws heavily on Scandinavian artists and pays tribute to grand masters Serra, Beuys, Twombly and Richter
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Beuys born again in Venice with new show
Piazza San Marco hosts the first Italian exhibition dedicated to the artist since his death
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Bill Gates on Leonardo
The Microsoft co-founder speaks about the Italian artist's influence on Beuys ahead of an exhibition in Berlin
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Battle to save Joseph Beuys wallcovering at Landesmuseum
Debate over whether it constitutes part of the original “Block Beuys” installation
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Joseph Beuys' multiples on show at the Irish Museum of Modern Art
These works embodying the egalitarian nature of multiples have ironically been hidden from view until now
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Books: Caroline Tisdall's new book is the way to go on anything Beuys
This substantial volume, predominantly photographic, is the comprehensive account of Joseph Beuys’s life and work
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Dia Center shows Beuys taking notes on Leonardo
Beuys drawings based on the Renaissance master’s famous Codices Madrid show revolutionary artist experimenting with the ideas of another
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Beuys display on view at Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Don't miss the Beuys next door
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First US show of Beuys' multiples on show at the Walker
Beuys will be Beuys will be Beuys . . .
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Beuys breathes life into Cologne’s museum relics and inspires an exhibition in Vienna
Crucifixes and razorblades show the breadth of Beuys' production
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The Baselitz blitz: Survey at the Guggenheim Museum may bring the artist unprecedented recognition
Will this reappraisal change the artist’s critical fortunes in America?
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The Joseph Beuys drawings scandal: Expert Heiner Bastian explains why the drawings are fakes while the dealer who owns them defends them and himself
“I’m right and you’re wrong!” “No, I’m right and you’re wrong!”
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Guggenheim Museum-Hummel deal on hold as Milan courts consider besmirched Beuys works
Row over dubious drawings comes to US
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Fake Beuys drawings scandal in officially sponsored exhibition at Accademia di Brera
Thirty-eight works impounded while court searches for a reliable expert
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Americans hop on the Beuys bandwagon with MoMA exhibition as the artist's reputation takes off
The growing interest is further indicated by the Walker Art Center’s major acquisition
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Joseph Beuys retrospective opens at MoMA
A growing interest in Beuys in the United States indicated by the Walker Art Center’s major acquisition
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Documenta '92 report: If art is dead, is the artist a zombie?
It's heavily influenced by the work of Joseph Beuys and shows the near and distant past rather than the present, with plenty of conceptual appropriation
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"New Displays" at the Tate Gallery makes special rooms for Joseph Beuys and Rebecca Horn
Important loans include portraits by Hogarth and Gainsborough and five landscapes by Constable
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Books: New 'comprehensive biography' fails to go beyond the public face of Joseph Beuys
Heiner Stachelhaus' book on the German artist leaves a lot to be desired
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What's on in Paris: From Artcurial to Zerou
Including Tinguely’s farewell “Collaboration” at Galérie Beaubourg
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Fundació Joan Miró gears up for an outstanding programme including Beuys, Tàpies and the modern classics
Generous lending has set them up for a blockbuster year