How One Artist’s Removal of a Work from a MoMA Show Altered the Course of Art History
When Takis took a sculpture out of a survey about machinery and art, it was because he felt that the museum had not consulted him about his work's inclusion.
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Takis, Giant of Kinetic Art Movement Who Harnessed the Strange Power of Magnets, Dead at 93
In his bizarre and entrancing work, he made metals, liquids, and even people float.
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A Look at Takis’s ‘Sci-Fi’ Telemagnetic Sculptures in 1963: From the Archives
"The sculptor's intention is not to create a kind of Dadaist art, nor yet a Tinguely machine," Lawrence Campbell wrote, "but to demonstrate the esthetic possibilities of an actual magnetic force."
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What Happens on Tour Stays on Tour: At an Exhausting Documenta, an Underwhelming Venice Biennale, an Enthralling Skulptur Projekte
In Venice, Athens, and Kassel, Münster, and Marl, Germany
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The sculptures of Takis (born Panayiotis Vassilakis) have waned from view over the past 20 years. Now, simultaneous exhibitions—a compact one at the Menil Collection in Houston and a comprehensive one…
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