Performa Makes Changes to Board of Directors, Adding Shirin Neshat and...
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View ArticlePerforma Adds Two Board Members, Names Richard Chang Board President
Performa’s board announced today the appointment of two new members, Joyce Liu and Ivan Pun, while also naming current board member Richard Chang to the position of board president. Toby Devan Lewis...
View ArticlePerforma 17 Announces Commissions, Focus on the Legacy of Dada
Though Dada began 101 years ago, it continues to inspires artists today, and so, for its 2017 edition, Performa will focus on the legacy of the art movement. Titled “100 Degrees Above Dada,” in...
View ArticleAt Performa, Xavier Cha Debuts a Work About Relationships, Videos, and the...
The work, which was staged at BAM, was part of the performance art biennial running through November 19. Read More The post At Performa, Xavier Cha Debuts a Work About Relationships, Videos, and the...
View Article9 Art Events to Attend in New York City This Week
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View ArticleAdrienne Edwards Named Curator of Performance at Whitney Museum
She was previously curator at Performa and curator at large at the Walker Art Center. Read More The post Adrienne Edwards Named Curator of Performance at Whitney Museum appeared first on ARTnews.
View ArticlePerforma Launches Online Platform for Streaming New and Archived Works
The first broadcast will consider music in contemporary art. Read More The post Performa Launches Online Platform for Streaming New and Archived Works appeared first on ARTnews.
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The Landlord From Hell: Artist Duo Body by Body Tackles Gentrification in New...
Jesse James Hoffman as Lieutenant Captain Colonel Baby Boy in Body By Body’s BDSMozart. BODY BY BODY All things considered, I enjoy living in New York City. With that said, it can often feel deeply...
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Alexander and Bonin To Move To Tribeca
Alexander and Bonin’s current space at 132 10th Avenue in Chelsea. COURTESY MCBRIDE & ASSOCIATES ARCHITECTS Alexander and Bonin has announced that they will be moving to a new space at 47 Walker...
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Performa Makes Changes to Board of Directors, Adding Shirin Neshat and...
COURTESY PERFORMA The next Peforma is still a little under two years away, but changes are already afoot at the performance-art biennial, which revealed that it will make changes to its board of...
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Performa Adds Two Board Members, Names Richard Chang Board President
Richard Chang. COURTESY PERFORMA Performa’s board announced today the appointment of two new members, Joyce Liu and Ivan Pun, while also naming current board member Richard Chang to the position of...
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Performa 17 Announces Commissions, Focus on the Legacy of Dada
William Kentridge, a participant in Performa 17, staging a piece at Performa 09. COURTESY PERFORMA Though Dada began 101 years ago, it continues to inspires artists today, and so, for its 2017 edition,...
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At Performa, Xavier Cha Debuts a Work About Relationships, Videos, and the...
Performance view of Xavier Cha, Buffer, 2017, at Brooklyn Academy of Music, a commission for Performa 17. REBECCA SMEYNE There is nothing that irks internet users more than a video that won’t load—a...
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9 Art Events to Attend in New York City This Week
Gordon Matta-Clark and Gerry Hovagimyan working on Conical Intersect, 1975, photo by Harry Gruyaert. ©2017 ESTATE OF GORDON MATTA-CLARK, ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK, AND DAVID ZWIRNER, NEW...
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Adrienne Edwards Named Curator of Performance at Whitney Museum
Adrienne Edwards. WHITNEY BROWNE The Whitney Museum in New York has appointed Adrienne Edwards as its Engell Speyer Family Curator and Curator of Performance. She will start at the Whitney this May....
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Performa Launches Online Platform for Streaming New and Archived Works
Mike Kelley, The Judson Church Horse Dance, 2009. PAULA COURT/COURTESY PERFORMA The New York–based nonprofit arts organization Performa, which commissions and produces live performances, has announced...
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Bunny Rogers’s Performa Project Mourns the Daily Tragedies of Mass Shooting
Limp bodies lined the hallways of Essex Street Academy, a public high school on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, during Bunny Rogers’s Sanctuary. It was the first live performance by the artist, who...
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In Her First-Ever Performance, Tschabalala Self Explores a Creative...
With her painted collage Sprewell (2020), Tschabalala Self departed from her more familiar depictions of exaggerated female figures that seem to duplicate by splitting apart. In the apartment scene, a...
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At Performa, Ericka Beckman Offers an Anti-Capitalist Musical Adaptation of...
It felt fitting to catch up with the artist Ericka Beckman in a black box theater, since that’s where the Pictures Generation filmmaker has shot nearly all her films since the 1970s. When we met at the...
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From Outside In: Rashid Johnson Has Plied His Status as an Art Star to Effect...
After meeting at a neighborhood bar a little more than a decade ago, Rashid Johnson and Joel Mesler became such fixtures together on New York’s Lower East Side—where Johnson lived and Mesler owned a...
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