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Performance Art

Two women in dresses holding up a shawl to protect themselves from the rain.

A Perfect Storm of Art and Experimentation Descends on the Watermill Center

What better way for experimental art to mirror modern life than to make use of extremely unexpected puddles as literal pools of reflection?
By Casey Epstein-Gross

Exploring New Sides to Performance Art: “Responding to Site” on Marilyn Arsem

This monograph of Marilyn Arsem's performance work gives her the recognition that she has long deserved.
By Elisa Shoenberger

Pussy Riot’s Members Have Been Jailed by the Russian Government for Hooliganism

In 2012, Pussy Riot members were imprisoned for two years after performing a song criticizing Vladimir Putin.
By Helen Holmes
Subodh Gupta's Cooking the World at Art Basel Unlimited 2017.

These Are the Art Basel Moments Instagram Is Obsessing Over

By Alanna Martinez
Anne Imhof shows the Golden Lion for Best National Participation during the Opening Ceremony of the 57th Biennale Arte on May 13, 2017 in Venice, Italy. The 57th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia opens today to the public and will run till November 26, 2017.

The Venice Biennale’s Big Winners: Anne Imhof, Hassan Khan, Franz Erhard Walther

By Alanna Martinez
An artist performing in a corner.

The Timeless Tale of the Naked Performance Artist in the Corner

By Alanna Martinez
Anne Imhof, Faust, 2017 for the German Pavilion, 57th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia.

Behold the Health Goth Choir That Rules the Art World

By Alanna Martinez
Jordan Belfort ala The Wolf of Wall Street Leo berating fairgoers for Dora Budor's performance MANICOMIO!, 2017.

Fake Leonardo DiCaprio at Frieze Art Fair Is Everything

By Alanna Martinez
Artist Fyodor Pavlov-Andreevich in a glass box at the 2017 Met Gala.

A Naked Performance Artist Crashed the Met Gala in a Clear Box

By Alanna Martinez
Oroma Elewa

This Transnational African Editor Is Getting Into Performance Art

By Mikelle Street
During a sacrifice, King Attalus presses two words into the liver of the slaughtered animal. Engraving by Bernhard Rode, ca. 1780.

What’s the Big Deal With Animal Sacrifice for Art, Really?

By Alanna Martinez
Chris Burden, Trans-Fixed, 1974.

Trailer for Chris Burden Film Finds Artist Shot, Shocked and Crucified All Over Again

By Alanna Martinez
Green-Wood Cemetery.

Bury Your Secrets (Literally) at Brooklyn’s Most Famous Cemetery

By Alanna Martinez
Multiply Thy Sorrow, by Vincent Castiglia.

Inside The Satanic Temple’s Show of Human Blood Paintings

By Alanna Martinez
Artist Louis Zoellar Bickett with his work.

This Artist Spent 40 Years Documenting His Life So Others Could Learn From It

By Scott Indrisek
Performance artist Marina Abramovic's old Soho loft is back.

Live in Silence at Marina Abramović’s Former Loft

By Morgan Halberg
J. K. Rowling attends the press preview of "Harry Potter & The Cursed Child" at Palace Theatre on July 30, 2016 in London, England. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, is a two-part West End stage play written by Jack Thorne based on an original new story by Thorne, J.K. Rowling and John Tiffany.

JK Rowling Drops Hint on New Book, Women’s March Seeks Original Art

By Alanna Martinez
Henderson, Nevada.

A Look at US Swing States From Space, McDonald’s Sues City of Florence

By Alanna Martinez
Artist Martha Wilson as GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.

Martha Wilson as Donald Trump, One Last Time Before the World May End

By Guelda Voien
Students drawing Iggy Pop during a life drawing class at the New York Academy of Art. The work will go on view for Jeremy Deller's exhibition "Iggy Pop Life Class" at the Brooklyn Museum this fall.

Drawings of Iggy Pop’s Body at Brooklyn Museum, and 5 Things to Do Until Election Day

By Alanna Martinez
French President Francois Hollande visiting the Department of Islamic Arts galleries at the Louvre in 2012.

Louvre Offers to Store Rescued Art from Syria, Jeremy Shaw Wins Sobey Art Award

By Alanna Martinez
Angst 3, Anne Imhof, 18. and 19. October 2016, 19h–23h, Musée d’art contemporain Montreal.

The Montreal Biennial Is a MasterClass in How to Ask Big Questions With Art

By Alanna Martinez
Ulay.

Ulay Remembers the Crime of a Lifetime 40 Years Later

By Noah Charney
Sacred Bones' Jenny Hval circa 2016's unrealized film script turned album, "Blood Bitch"

Jenny Hval Reflects on Universal Failures on the Brooding ‘Blood Bitch’

By Justin Joffe
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