When the Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus inaugurates its new annex building designed by Norman Foster on Konigsplatz on May 8th, the museum will present its collection centered on The Blue Rider in a new setting. And, moreover, the museum has a veritable surprise in store: In addition to its own inventory, which has recently been considerably augmented by the purchase of the Beuys environment -Vor dem Aufbruch aus Lager I, - the museum has acquired a further seventeen original early plastic artworks by Beuys in the form of a donation from publisher Lothar Schirmer. The entire Beuys...

Featuring a selection of works from a distinguished private Munich collection, this small and elegant volume presents 35 of Cy Twombly's most essential photographs. Published to accompany a studio exhibition at the Frieder Burda Museum in Baden-Baden it assembles the artist's famous and favorite subjects: the interiors of the New York Fulton Street studio he shared with Robert Rauschenberg in the 1950s, his beloved peonies, interiors, landscapes in Lexington, Virginia, and Gaeta, Italy, and his sculpture and painting details. Lavishly printed and with an essay by art historian Helmut Friedel,...