Kienholz’s Five Car Stud goes back on view in Milan

For nearly forty years, Ed Kienholz’s Five Car Stud (1969-72), a dark installation depicting a brutal racist attack, lay hidden away in storage in Japan. It is now on public view in Milan at the Fondazione Prada, which acquired the work in 2012, soon after it was restored by the artist’s widow and collaborator Nancy Reddin Kienholz.
The work, first shown at Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972, was restored in 2011 and displayed in the US for the first time at the Los Angeles County Museum