Tag: Joseph Beuys

  • Nation & World

    When potatoes become art

    “Analogia I” by Victor Grippo is one of the Harvard Art Museums’ many works by artists who were redefining the global artistic landscape in the second half of the 20th century. The piece incorporates a series of potatoes connected to electrodes and a meter that registers the energy they produce.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    War’s artistic alchemy

    Museum presentation discusses three German artists shaped in the cauldron of world war, and a younger fourth molded by the gender wars.

    4 minutes