NewsArt fairs
'It was painful, it was hardship': Marina Abramovic on her ill-fated, epic walk towards Ulay across the Great Wall of China
Three decades after the artists made the journey, in the dying throes of their relationship, PhotoFairs Shanghai is showing the work for the first time in the country
BlogActivism
Artists confront ‘neo-fascist’ plague in performance in New York
The performance responds to the policies of Jair Bolsonaro and Donald Trump
PreviewExhibitions
Drawing, singing, sleeping, eating, changing costumes: Nikhil Chopra’s nine-day campout at the Met
Moving from gallery to gallery like a nomadic traveller, the performance artist-in-residence will morph into a series of personae
NewsExhibitions
Bare necessities: would you brush up against naked performers to get inside Marina Abramovic’s 2020 London show?
Artist's famous nude performance—first done with Ulay—to be recreated in her retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts next year
PreviewArt fairs
What am I actually buying? Performance art-only fair in Brussels faces challenge of materiality
A Performance Affair introduces new protocol to specify what is on offer and its secondary market development
NewsPerforma
Performa 19 to explore the influence of the Bauhaus School on live performance
The biennial includes around 20 new commissions by artists such as Kia LaBeija and Ed Atkins
BlogIn the frame
Ryan McNamara to stage immersive work at a Fire Island festival
Theme of free public event will be "Dancing With Adversity"
NewsPerformance art
Volunteers wanted to crawl with performance artist Pope.L
The artist is staging a massive inclusive crawl in New York this September
NewsArt Basel 2019
Artist Alexandra Pirici demands compensation for underpaid performers
The system of dividends is a way to address the "immense amounts of unpaid or underpaid labour" that support the art world, she says
PreviewArt Basel 2019
Art meets dance in Alexandra Pirici's living time capsule at Art Basel
Sixty dancers will enact "performative environment" on the Messeplatz in Basel every day this week
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Block Universe launches with reflective performance by Sophie Jung
NewsVenice Biennale 2019
Lithuania gets the coveted Golden Lion for best national pavilion in Venice
Arthur Jafa’s work The White Album is also recognised by the Biennale jury
BlogIn the frame
Sanford Biggers's futuristic funk comes to the Kennedy Center
NewsPerformance art
Venice’s nooks and crannies will become sites for performances during 58th Biennale
Delfina Foundation co-organises Meetings on Art programme focused on nationality, gender and queer issues
NewsPerformance art
After making waves in Venice, Anne Imhof unleashes her Sex piece at Tate Modern
Performers will reflect the "fluidity between binaries" across full suite of spaces in the Tanks
News
Russian man strolls through Moscow’s Tretyakov Gallery in thong underwear
The latest bizarre incident at one of Russia’s most important institutions was an “unsanctioned performance” according to the museum
NewsBiennials & festivals
Block Universe performance festival expands to Berlin power station
New 350 sq. m contemporary art space E-Werk Luckenwalde has joined the programme for the event's fifth anniversary
InterviewFrieze Los Angeles
What to buy at Frieze Los Angeles? Lisa Anne Auerbach offers psychic art advice
Artist's performance for the fair's projects programme aims to unshroud doubts around collecting and the art market
NewsTechnology
Marina Abramovic to make digital appearance at London's Serpentine Galleries
Performance using cutting-edge Magic Leap One device is world first
InterviewLinder
Linder: scalpel-sharp dissections of society
Speaking to the artist about her work with punk bands in the 1970s to a series of recent public performances
NewsPyotr Pavlensky
Russian performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky gets three-year prison sentence, but walks free for time served
Verdict was handed down in dramatic Paris hearing, which Pavlensky dedicated to the Marquis de Sade
NewsPerformance art
A global network for Indigenous performers launches in New York
Partner organisations will be “indigenised” by presenting a certain number of works by First Nations artists per year and build connections with local communities
AnalysisArt market
Performance art finds its voice at Independent Brussels
Contemporary fair has reinvented itself after scaling back and moving to a November slot, although it has lost some big name exhibitors
BlogIn the frame
What’s the frequency sTo Len? Sound piece tunes in to pirate radio
Podcast
Gainsborough murder mystery. Plus, RoseLee Goldberg on performance art
We travel back to the 18th century and delve into the grisly family murders that helped Gainsborough gain fame. Plus, RoseLee Goldberg tell us all about her new book Performance Now: Live Art for the 21st century. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.
NewsSexual harassment
Belgian culture minister investigates Jan Fabre following allegations of sexual harassment
Twenty dancers sign letter saying that “humiliation” is rife in the artist's Troubleyn troupe
NewsPerformance art
Berlin to get replica wall with visa controls in giant art installation on Soviet era
Russia film-maker Ilya Khrzhanovsky teams up with Brian Eno, Marina Abramovic, Massive Attack for project called DAU
NewsPerformance art
Berlin Wall may be resurrected—and then demolished—as part of anniversary of reunification
Organisers of the culture festival Berliner Festspiele are in talks with city authorities and are yet to confirm the event
BlogIn the frame
Rammellzee mini-me’s put on opera inspired by the artist
NewsRussia
Pussy Riot say they invaded pitch during World Cup final as political protest
Russian activist group describes performance as a tribute to dissident poet and artist Dmitri Prigov
BlogThe Buck stopped here
William Kentridge outplays the England match with Tate premiere of performance The Head and the Load
BlogLinda on the loose
Joan Jonas swims with the fishes at Danspace Project
BlogIn the frame
Groundwork Festival celebrates the summer solstice with a dance on a Cornish beach
BlogIn the frame
Dress to impress—and win a $5,000 prize—at the Park Avenue Armory
BlogIn the frame
An artistic cookbook for the next generation
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Joan Jonas moves off the land and into the ocean for Tate Modern performance
NewsUnited States
Mass Moca takes the plunge with ice-water installation
The artist Taryn Simon—and brave visitors—will jump into a man-made frozen pool built into the gallery, evoking cleansing and spiritual rituals
BlogThe Buck stopped here
‘A primal, erotically-charged mud fest’: Florence Peake’s rite at De La Warr Pavilion
InterviewFrieze New York
On the road, from Iraq to Germany
The Iraqi-Kurdish artist Hiwa K on migration and contemporary politics
NewsFrieze New York
The public joins the protest in Frieze’s Live programme
Activist work reflects what artists are making, says curator of new initiative
BlogLinda on the loose
Prelude to the Shed’s free art fortnight is a utopian breath of fresh air
For two weeks, temporary respite in New York's Death Valley is available on a miraculously undeveloped lot at the corner of Tenth Avenue and 31st Street
BlogIn the frame
April is Poetry Month, and Lorna Simpson is Celebrating
PreviewExhibitions
Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas brings acrobatics and improvised sculptures to New York
The artist is creating a new work and performance at The Kitchen and launching Mexican gallery Kurimanzutto’s US outpost this month
NewsMartin Luther King
Harlem gallery performance evokes Martin Luther King Jr’s final moments
Jazz musician Melvin Gibbs remembers the Civil Rights Leader’s death and the impact it had on the African American community at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise
NewsArt Dubai 2018
Resistance in multiple forms at Sharjah’s March Meeting
Minds from the Middle Eastern art world and beyond discussed topics such as urban planning and art and ecology
PreviewExhibitions
Performance pioneer Joan Jonas takes over Tate Modern
Survey of US artist at the London gallery includes an exhibition, performance and film programme
NewsPerformance art
Artists in Istanbul undertake epic performance
Needed: You—Performistanbul puts on Turkey’s longest ever-live event
NewsArtists
Marina Abramovic turns Seven Deaths project into an opera to debut in Munich in 2020
Artist will direct the production, which was originally conceived as a cinematic tribute to her lifelong hero Maria Callas
NewsTate Modern
Tania Bruguera to create next Hyundai Commission for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall
Cuban artist has previously shown performance piece with horse mounted police officers in museum’s cavernous space
NewsPerformance art
Artist burns Gothic structure made of twigs causing controversy in Russia
Nikolay Polissky's act took place at Nikola-Lenivets event, which is likened to the US Burning Man festival
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Russian man suspends himself from a London building in the name of art—and LGBT rights
NewsLaw
Detention extended for Russian performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky who set fire to bank in Paris
The controversial figure has gone on hunger strike in protest at “lack of transparency” over legal process
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Eddie Peake takes centre stage for new performance show at London’s White Cube
NewsPerformance art
Tania Bruguera’s banned Havana performance comes to New York
The work deals with politial corruption and censorship, themes that are “especially important to discuss in the Trump era”, the artist says
InterviewArtist interview
Robot wars: Mark Pauline and Survival Research Laboratories
The Bay Area artist and his team build massive machines that act in dangerous performances—and they are opening their first gallery show in New York
NewsPerformance art
Zardulu behind video of iguana appearing in Miami family’s toilet
The performance piece, viewed by millions as a viral news story, was based on an ancient Greek myth of Kronos usurping the throne of Ouranos, the artist tells us
NewsArt Basel in Miami Beach
Artists get down to work at the fair
Stands are transformed into studios as live works lay bare artists’ practice
BlogArt Basel in Miami Beach
Rita Ora, free Botox and more Miami gossip
BlogIn the frame
A performance knocks a brutal white male doctor off his pedestal
NewsExhibitions
Secret objects tell life story of Emirati conceptual pioneer Hassan Sharif
Sharjah show recreates late artist’s studio
NewsPerformance art
Pacific Standard Time announces performance art festival to extend second edition
Latin American and Latinx artists will create 75 projects across the Los Angeles area
FeaturePodcast
Abu Dhabi Focus podcast, episode three: how the UAE art scene became a force to be reckoned with
Art dealer Thaddaeus Ropac and curator Maya Allison tell us how the nation’s creative ambitions have blossomed. Plus: Silver Lion-winning musician and artist Hassan Khan on his Abu Dhabi Art performance
NewsRagnar Kjartansson
Ragnar Kjartansson’s new work will see popular Italian song being played repeatedly for five weeks
The durational performance will take place at National Museum of Cardiff next year
NewsPerformance art
Barbara Kruger to stage first live performance for New York’s Performa festival
The work Untitled (The Drop) will take place on three consecutive Thursdays in November
NewsProtest
Performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky sets fire to a bank in Paris
Russian artist famous for nailing scrotum to Moscow’s Red Square invokes the “great French Revolution”
NewsFrieze 2017
Marina Abramovic abandons plans for New York institute
Performance artist unable to raise $31m required for Koolhaas design
FeatureFeatures
Encore! Tate’s New Performance plan
Artists like Marvin Gaye Chetwynd have prompted a rethink in the Tate’s approach to live art
NewsFrieze 2017
New Tate fund puts performance centre-stage
Scheme aims to bridge gap between collecting and displaying the medium
NewsTate Modern
Visitors clock in and make pots on Tate Modern’s factory production line
Installation developed by Clare Twomey explores issues around collective labour