Eine Ausstellung in Mannheim zeigt, wie Künstler wie Niki de Sainte-Phalle, Jean Tinguely und Arman in den 1960ern Realität direkt in ihre Werke integrierten.

Ein Nachruf auf Valie Export, Pionierin feministischer Kunst, die seit den 1960er Jahren in radikalen Aktionen die fragmentierte Wirklichkeit erforschte.

Special, secretive operation will ship 11th-century artwork across Channel without jolts, bumps or shakes As the Bayeux tapestry wends its way across the Channel in a top secret operation there will be no jolts, no bumps, no shakes or vibrations – unlike the voyage of William the Conqueror whose 1066 victory at Hastings the artefact recounts. “Nothing has been left to chance,” Catherine Pégard, the French minister of culture told a gathering to mark the historic loan, which will be physically achieved with the tapestry, which is really an embroidery, transported in a specially constructed cradle within a container, the minister said. Continue reading...