Chase Gallery set to open in its new surroundings Jul 29, 2009
Submersions, David Olsen s video and installation in the Mills Gallery s EXIT Room, directly links to Joseph Beuys s view of the artist as a shaman. Olsen, using Vulture as his avatar, rows through polluted Newtown Creek in New York City, applying a variety of spiritual solutions, such as lowering a seal skull into the water. (Boston Globe)
Matthew Day Jackson exhibit at MIT's List Visual Arts Center touches on many disciplines May 24, 2009
Many of his pieces explicitly reference giants of 20th-century art, such as Bruce Nauman and Joseph Beuys. "Matt is an idea percolator," declares curator Bill Arning. (Boston Globe)
Germany to open art celebration of constitution Apr 30, 2009
Among the works are internationally known items, Georg Baselitz's battle-weary hero, "Der Hirte (The Shepherd)" for the year 1966 and Joseph Beuys' felt-covered grand piano representing 1976, as well as many lesser known pieces. "This exhibit is something special. It is special because it shows the creative potential of just a few but important artists of Germany of the past 60 years," said organizer Walter Smerling, president of Foundation for Art and Culture in the former West German capital... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
'These Days' exhibit at MASS MoCA is full of mournful reflections Apr 18, 2009
But it has haunting moments, and, impressively, it complements several other displays currently at Mass MoCA, including a huge room devoted to somber but thrilling works by the German artists Joseph Beuys and Anselm Kiefer and a group show offering a wistful take on the state of the environment called "Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape.". The cumulative effect is not exactly uplifting, but it has a real emotional pull, like a complex chord that echoes in the chest and threatens to constrict... (Boston Globe)
How art connected 2 sides of the Berlin Wall Feb 17, 2009
Stars like Joseph Beuys, George Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer and Gerhard Richter had arrived on the world stage by the 1970s and established a new era of German cultural prestige abroad, while East German art languished under Communism, churning out only Socialist Realism. Multimedia. (International Herald Tribune)
