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Performance Art

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Inside the First Watermill Center Summer Festival Without Robert Wilson

“Everywhere you look, Robert sets us up to have a view," RoseLee Goldberg, Performa's founder, told Observer. "Every step we take, you can be sure that he somehow thought of it.”
By Jasmine Lobe
A woman in a white shirt stands beside a large outdoor video screen on the High Line, with blurred traffic and city lights visible through the railing.

Xin Liu Imagines the Lonely Afterlife of a Decommissioned Satellite

Her multidisciplinary work "NOAA: A Fall Towards Home" explores the depth of despair and the possibility of hope inherent in exile and disconnection.
By Elisa Carollo
A black-and-white performance still shows a seated woman in a slip while another person uses scissors to cut fabric from her clothing.

Yoko Ono Has Outlasted the Scorn, the Caricatures and the Blame

"Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind" at The Broad in L.A. brings together decades of work that predated and anticipated many of the ideas now central to contemporary art.
By Jordan Riefe
Ellen Lesperance's performance piece at the Seattle Art Fair.

Performance Piece Featuring Witches Raises Questions at Seattle Art Fair

By Alina Cohen
Hermann Nitsch's 150.Action performance on June 17 at the MONA Museum's Dark Mofo Festival in Hobart, Australia.

900 Gather to Witness Hermann Nitsch’s Blood-Filled Performance Art

By Alanna Martinez
Subodh Gupta's Cooking the World at Art Basel Unlimited 2017.

These Are the Art Basel Moments Instagram Is Obsessing Over

By Alanna Martinez
Solange performs at Solange: An Ode To, part of Red Bull Music Academy Festival

Solange’s Guggenheim Show Fills a White Institution With Blackness

By Justin Joffe
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
Leonardo DiCaprio stands with three people, with his back turned in gallery

Fake Leonardo DiCaprio at Frieze New York 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
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