Performance art

Marina Abramovic abandons plans for New York institute

Performance artist unable to raise $31m required for Koolhaas design

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Encore! Tate’s New Performance plan

Artists like Marvin Gaye Chetwynd have prompted a rethink in the Tate’s approach to live art

New Tate fund puts performance centre-stage

Scheme aims to bridge gap between collecting and displaying the medium

Visitors clock in and make pots on Tate Modern’s factory production line

Installation developed by Clare Twomey explores issues around collective labour

Rashaad Newsome leads the parade at Detroit light art festival

And the artist gives a hint of his upcoming performance at the Park Avenue Armory

Solange has something to say to the art world

The performer let loose at a sold-out talk at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago this week

New York’s Performa festival announces new commissions by Barbara Kruger

The artist will also design marketing materials for the biennial of performance art

First major retrospective of Marina Abramovic in Europe opens in Denmark

The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in in Humlebæk will stage reperformances of some of her most famous pieces

Naked man in a box who crashed the Met gala is arrested

The Russian performance artist targets high-profile art events in his Foundling series

Nitsch performance using slaughtered bull to go ahead in Tasmania

A petition launched by an animal rights group to block the work has attracted 20,000 signatures

Tate Modern opens first 'live' show with mist, plants and a rave

Series of exhibitions dedicated to live art will be annual with BMW's support

Performa 17 commissions will investigate Dada's history of performance

This year's projects include work by William Kentridge and a collaboration between Julie Mehretu and Jason Moran

Performance: stage left, right and centre in the new Tate

What you can expect to see in the galleries and exhibitions spaces this summer

Lawnews

Russian political artist Pyotr Pavlensky released from custody with $15,000 fine

But he told reporters after the trial that he refused to pay and mocked the prosecutors’ charges of damaging cultural heritage by burning FSB doors

KGB prison doors given questionable cultural heritage status

Political artist Pyotr Pavlensky, who set fire to the entrance on Lubyanka Square as part of a performance, is now facing trial in Moscow

Janine Antoni gets wrapped up in her work at Philadelphia’s Fabric Workshop

Project celebrates the interconnectedness of life through dance, installations and sculptures

How to be a performance artist like Marina Abramovic

Athens project trains Greek artists and the public in the “Abramovic Method”

Moscow judge extends detention of Russian protest artist

A cheery Pyotr Pavlensky demanded again in the courtroom to be tried as a terrorist for his political performances against the Russian government

Opera-loving artist Raqib Shaw to show new paintings at Glyndebourne

Artist is the second to be selected for White Cube pop-up gallery at the music festival

'Dear New Yorkers, tear down those walls': Tania Bruguera to stage public vote on immigration

Referendum performance is part of the Rubin Foundation’s political art show When Artists Speak Truth…

Artist's immigrant performance axed

Untitled fair organisers cancelled it just hours before it was set to take place

Carrie Mae Weems to pay tribute to Obama’s response to racist shootings in Charleston

Artist's work, which will be performed in June, is meant as a gift to the US president

No costumes needed for Xavier Le Roy’s new work

Arts patron John Kaldor helps bring six-hour performance to Sydney