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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

The Kid Stays in the Picture: Interviewing Ryan McNamara, and Becoming an Artwork

By Michael H. Miller
Mr. McLaren. (Courtesy Performa)

Ragnar Kjartansson Wins Performa's Malcolm McLaren Award

By Michael H. Miller
"Full Body Quotation." (Photo by Andrew Russeth)

Wu Tsang Presents 'Paris Is Burning,' Fractured and Reworked, at the New Museum

By Andrew Russeth

Who Will Win the Malcolm McLaren Award?

By Michael H. Miller

Ragnar Kjartansson's 12-Hour Performance Blissfully Leaves Mozart on Repeat

By Michael H. Miller

Will Cotton Giveth, and He Taketh Away: A (Very) Truncated Performance About Sex and Candy

By Michael H. Miller

9 Things to Do in New York's Art World Before Nov. 28

By Michael H. Miller, Andrew Russeth and Dan Duray

Kabuki, Kung Fu and Hip-Hop Collide at Iona Rozeal Brown's 'Battle of Yestermore'

By Michael H. Miller
Shirin Neshat "OverRuled" (2011). Photo by Larry Barns. Courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery.

Searching for Redemption in Shirin Neshat's 'OverRuled'

By Michael H. Miller

At Leo Koenig, MPA and Amapola Prada Revolution Perform for Two Crowds

By Andrew Russeth
Liz Magic Laser. (Courtesy Patrick McMullan)

Liz Magic Laser Feels Your Pain

By Jillian Steinhauer

500 Daido Moriyama Books Bloom at Aperture

By Andrew Russeth

Performa 11 Roundup

By Michael H. Miller, Andrew Russeth and Dan Duray

Partying With Naked Men at Performa’s Opening Night Celebration

By Michael H. Miller

The Art World Gets Existential, Courtesy of Performa and Samuel Beckett

By Michael H. Miller

Artist Liz Glynn Seeks Volunteers to Raise Geodesic Dome Downtown

By Andrew Russeth

Guido van der Werve Plans 30-Mile Run to Rachmaninoff’s Grave

By Andrew Russeth

Cecilia Alemani Named Director and Curator of High Line Art Program

By Andrew Russeth

This Week in New York’s Art World

By GalleristNY
(Photo: Else Kramer / Witte de With)

Rotterdam's Witte de With Museum Picks Performa's Defne Ayas as Director

By Andrew Russeth
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