Topic: Martin Kippenberger

Very cool and far away

An intriguing museum exhibition that's all about print is taking place in February and March. Unfortunately for Angelenos, it's at the Museum of...
A cleaning woman at a German museum who mistook a sculpture for an unsightly mess has destroyed the valuable artwork beyond recognition, a spokeswoman for the western city of Dortmund said Thursday.The cleaner at the city's Ostwall Museum went to ...

Cleaner Wipes Away $1 Million Artwork

Cleaner Wipes Away $1 Million Artwork . An overzealous cleaning woman's handiwork resulted in ruining a $1 million piece of artwork. An official in...

Psycho Buildings Artists Take On Architecture

The article reviews the exhibition " Artist Take On Architecture" at the Hayward Gallery in London, England from May 28 to August 25, 2008. JUL-AUG 08 / ART MONTHLY / 318 35 and/or collectives is, rather, both an attention-getting feint (gen- erally, it is ...
Entering the avant-garde art world in the 1950s, I was reared on modernist painting and its attitudes. A recent review of Eva Lundsager's painting in the Village Voice by Martha Schwendener has once again prompted me to reflect on this question ...

Martin Kippenberger, The Problem Perspective

The Problem Perspective is the first retrospective of this prolific and controversial German artist, the bulk of whose work was produced from 1977 until his death in 1997 at age 44. the first is a giant installation in the atrium called "The ...

the late bad boy of German art

The reputation of Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997), has only grown since this artist-provacateur died of liver cancer at age 44. Rambunctious, egotistical, a prodigious drinker, Kippenberger intertwined life and art, creating a wide-ranging and prolific output that encompassed painting, sculpture, performance, photography-and, well ...

"Martin Kippenberger The Problem Perspective"

The reputation of Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997), has only grown since this artist-provacateur died of liver cancer at age 44. Rambunctious, egotistical, a prodigious drinker, Kippenberger intertwined life and art, creating a wide-ranging and prolific output that encompassed painting, sculpture, performance, photography-and, well ...

Impresario or artist?

Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997) Tate Modern, until 7 May Right from the start of this retrospective exhibition, the complications set in. But, no, we soon learn from a handy wall panel that Kippenberger didn't paint these pictures himself, but hired a Berlin ...
An Italian museum has defied Pope Benedict by refusing to remove a statue of a crucified green frog clutching a beer mug and an egg.. 'Zuerst die Fuesse' (Feet First), condemned as 'blasphemy' by the Vatican, has gone on display in an ...