Focus on this artwork and analyze the Reception and legacy.
The performance's lesson, wrote Artsy, is that American societal trauma can only be healed through direct communication.Artsy wrote that the piece's title, evoking the melting pot metaphor for Americanization, stood in contrast with the divisions Beuys saw in America.Photographs from the performance were shown at the Edinburgh Festival, where they greatly affected the future artist Jimmy Boyle. The curator RoseLee Goldberg too found the photographs poetic, only to be changed by a video of the performance in which she saw the sadness of the coyote. Artifacts from the performance were later exhibited in "Neues vom Coyoten" ("News from the Coyote") at the Ronald Feldman Gallery.
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