Finally, a major exhibition on Joseph Beuys. The shaman artist, the enigmatic clown, the mythical object of so many references, now appears in a traveling retrospective through major European cultural centers (Kunsthaus Zurich, Reina Sofía Madrid, and Centre Georges Pompidou Paris). We are certainly accustomed to mammoth exhibitions that travel from one city to another, like traveling circuses, with no greater justification than the need to feed the modern museum entertainment industry with anything they can get their hands on. This time it's different. Too many people have been idolizing Beuys, relying on disconnected vestiges of his time on earth: a few sketches, the sweater he wore while planting trees in Italy, scattered photos of his actions in the company of other artists or gallery owners, a few bottles of wine with his label, and so on...[+]