All the Web’s a Stage
Performance art, gallery openings, Dumpster-diving for junk to turn into art—all of it is happening in an online world populated by computer-generated beings called avatars. Read More
View ArticleCarry a Big Shtick
For artists inspired by sketch comedy, off-the-wall characters who can say and do anything are a way to explore weighty political and social issues. Read More
View ArticleTrue Lies?
Omer Fast's videos are mind-blowing mergings of artifice and truth, populated by refugees, soldiers, and other characters who may or may not be acting. Read More
View ArticleHip-Hop Heraldry
Through his collages, performances, and videos, Rashaad Newsome mixes ‘ghetto’ vernacular with staid European tradition Read More
View ArticleThat Seventies Sensibility
A wave of exhibitions shows how the open-ended, experimental, hardscrabble, less cynical esthetic of the ’70s is appealing to artists and curators Read More
View ArticleTen Tough Women Artists Who Stand Up to the Bad Boys
In a male-dominated art season, here’s where to find female artists who cut, change the rules, explore new horizons, and do it gangsta-style Read More
View ArticleNow Hear This: Sound Art Has Arrived
Sound is being recognized and exhibited as an art form in its own right Read More
View ArticleAll in the Family: Paweł Althamer Closes Out His Socrates Sculpture Park Run
Polish artist Pawel Althamer, who in April closed his exuberant, expansive installation, performance, and sculpture show at the New Museum, to which museum visitors were invited to contribute, took his...
View ArticlePerforma 15 Announces Premieres and Commissions by Oscar Murillo, Wyatt Kahn,...
Today Performa announced another batch of premieres and commissions today for its upcoming, three-week performance festival, Performa 15, which will take place in various locations around New York City...
View ArticleHere’s the Artist List for Performa 15
Today Performa, New York’s performance art biennial, released the artist list for its upcoming sixth, Renaissance-inspired edition, Performa 15, which runs November 1 through 22. Performances will take...
View ArticlePerforma Announces Yvonne Rainer European Tour
Performa, the New York nonprofit dedicated to performance-based art, announced today that it is producing a European tour of Yvonne Rainer’s The Concept of Dust, or How do you look when there’s nothing...
View ArticlePerforma 15 Picks Australia as Focus Country
Australia has been selected as the country of focus for Performa 15’s Pavilion Without Walls, the performance art biennial announced today. Performa opens November 1 and runs for three weeks in New...
View Article‘…But We Can’t Pay You’: Performance Art and Money’s Knotty Relationship
A year ago, in a former bank in Brooklyn, RoseLee Goldberg hosted a postmodern fundraiser featuring a “special food performance” by artist Jennifer Rubell. The event was to celebrate the tenth...
View ArticleYe Olde Performace Art Biennial: Renaissance-Themed Performa Opens In New York
The biennial Performa’s opening-night gala for its tenth-anniversary edition happened to fall on All Saints’ Day, and so it’s appropriate that the chosen setting was a church. On Sunday, a small group...
View ArticleVIA Art Fund Names Fall 2015 Grant Recipients
The nonprofit philanthropic arts organization VIA Art Fund has announced its fall 2015 grant recipients, who received a combined total of $190,000. In recognition of work that falls within VIA’s three...
View Article‘I’m in a State of Waiting Here’: Skyscrapers, Videos, and Free Juice at...
Last Friday, while waiting in line to see Jesper Just and FOS’s Performa commission, one chicly dressed attendee could be heard saying, “I love this idea of ‘Don’t have a performance within your...
View Article‘It’s Always a Question of Fantasy’: Juliana Huxtable On Her Indisputably...
Last Friday, at There Are Certain Facts That Cannot Be Disputed, Juliana Huxtable’s performance at the Museum of Modern Art commissioned for the Performa 15 biennial, the pre-show soundtrack included...
View ArticlePerforma Names Edgar Arceneaux Winner of the Malcolm McLaren Award
Performa announced today that the Los Angeles–based artist Edgar Arceneaux has won the biennial’s Malcolm McLaren Award for his performance Until, Until, Until…, staged for the first time on Friday, in...
View ArticleThe Landlord From Hell: Artist Duo Body by Body Tackles Gentrification in New...
All things considered, I enjoy living in New York City. With that said, it can often feel deeply absurd and almost unlivable, like waiting in a perpetual line for some kind of artisanal ramen that you...
View ArticleAlexander and Bonin To Move To Tribeca
Alexander and Bonin has announced that they will be moving to a new space at 47 Walker Street in Tribeca this summer, thereby becoming the latest gallery to join the mass exodus from Chelsea. The new...
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