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Performa

Robin Rhode performance-based artwork from 2015, combining drawing and action on a wall.

RoseLee Goldberg On 20 Years of Performa and Why Performance Art Still Matters

"We love using the city as our stage, but I like that we always begin with the artist—often, the actual space is the final piece of the puzzle."
By Elisa Carollo

The 51 Artists, Curators, Directors and Dealers Changing the Art World in 2018

Read, enjoy, and by all means, heartily disagree with the choices we’ve made. If there wasn’t debate, it wouldn’t be be art, would it?
By Margaret Carrigan,  Juliet Helmke,  and Guelda Voien
William Kentridge, I Am Not Me, the Horse is Not Mine, a Performa Premiere, 2009.

5 Most Anticipated Art Projects and Performances at Performa 2017

The influential biannual performance arts festival launches November 1 in New York.
By Margaret Carrigan
Get ready for that art fair small talk.

Not-to-Miss Fall Art Events

By Paul Laster
The Terminator thinks your art is derivative.

Scientists Invent Robot Art Critic, Charlton Heston Collection for Sale—and More

By Alanna Martinez
Macabre Suite, a party hosted by a real estate developer in the South Bronx.

Strange Bronx Bedfellows: Artist Lucien Smith and a Real Estate Scheme

By Ryan Steadman
Frances Beatty in her office at the Feigen Gallery with Ray Johnson works around her. PHOTO: Emily Assiran for Observer

Meet the Powerhouse Art Dealer Protecting the Most Famous Unknown Artist’s Legacy

By Lale Arikoglu
Artist Juliana Huxtable. (Photo: Courtesy Collectively)

Performa ’15 Lineup Revealed, Bolshoi’s David Hallberg to Perform Opening Night

By Guelda Voien
A still from Jennifer Rubell's new film Posing (2015). (Photo: © Jennifer Rubell. Courtesy the artist and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London)

Jennifer Rubell to Offer Visitors a Chance to Get Nude With Her (and a Horse) for Art

By Alanna Martinez
A still from The Yellow Snake is Waiting by Tzu-Huan Lin.

Weekend Edition: 7 Things to Do in New York’s Art World Before August 23

By Ryan Steadman
Artist Oscar Murillo. (Photo: Courtesy of Wikimedia)

Performa Reveals More Biennial Performers, Headlined by Oscar Murillo

By Ryan Steadman

Performance Art Headed to Times Square and 1WTC

By Casey Quackenbush
A 2009 Performa dinner at the Dia building.

An April ‘Renaissance’ in Performance Art

By Ashley Chappo
Ryan McNamara's MEEM 4 MIAMI: A Story Ballet About the Internet, (2014). (Photo by Alanna Martinez)

Andrew W Mellon Foundation Gives Performa $460K Grant for Curatorial Fellowships

By Ryan Steadman

12 Things to Do in New York’s Art World Before November 10

By Nate Freeman and Alanna Martinez
Ryan McNamara. (Courtesy Patrick McMullan)

Ryan McNamara Chats About Updating His Performa Commission for Art Basel Miami Beach

By Nate Freeman

Wild Wild West: Marianne Vitale’s ‘The Missing Book of Spurs’ Hits Performa

By Zoë Lescaze

Feast Your Eyes: Subodh Gupta Cooks Up a Performa Commission

By Zoë Lescaze
Holmqvist and Goldsmith. (Photos by The New York Observer)

‘There Is Only One Karl!’

By Andrew Russeth
Nyong'o. (The New York Observer)

Keeping It Surreal: Melvin Van Peebles, DJ Spooky, More at Performa’s ‘Black Surrealism’ Conference

By Zoë Lescaze
Picabia’s drawing for the original ‘Relâche.’ (Courtesy Performa)

Performa’s ‘Relâche’ Benefit Has a New Date, Nov. 29

By Rozalia Jovanovic
Sarah Michelson, "Devotion," 2011. Photo: Paula Court. (Courtesy Whitney.org)

Performa to Examine the Art World’s Fascination With Dance

By M.H. Miller

Ashley Tickle Leaves Performa to Rep High Line Art

By Dan Duray
RoseLee Goldberg at the Performa Benefit with Mike Kelly print in background (Courtesy Rozalia Jovanovic)

Performa Hosts Sparkling First Benefit Auction

By Rozalia Jovanovic
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