Books
Heather Rose's novel The Museum of Modern Love takes the events of Abramović's The Artist Is Present to show how art influences our lives, but in many ways, the writing leaves the reader with a sense of dissatisfaction.
News
Abramović was leaving a book-signing event when her assailant approached with a self-made portrait of the performance artist, suddenly smashing it over her head.
Books
The Serbian performance artist reimagines The Ugly Duckling, the classic children's book by Hans Christian Andersen.
In Brief
Marina Abramović responds to a New York Post story questioning what she has done with the $2.2M she raised to build her institute.
News
This project joins thousands of other follies of contemporary art.
Opinion
Acute Art aspires "to explore and enable the transition from art in the physical world into the new, disruptive realm of VR," something artists have been doing for years.
Film
Blurred Lines: Inside the Art World, showing at the Tribeca Film Festival, is a successful crash course in the forces shaping the art market that fails to go deeper.
News
It's totally chill if male Trump trolls bathe in pig's blood, but not if a female candidate's associate wants to attend a #SpiritCooking event.
In Brief
After almost a year of legal negotiations with Marina Abramović, Ulay will now receive payment and full accreditation for works he created with his former partner.
Opinion
Where to begin with such a passage? Do we criticize the comparison of the indigenous inhabitants of Australia with dinosaurs? The callous description of a community that doesn't fit the "Western" beauty aesthetic?
Art
PARIS — Climats Artificiels at the Espace Fondation EDF is an impertinent and multigenerational group show of contemporary art — heavy on miniature biosphere mockups — that raises the question of the current value of ironic artificiality.
Art
EAST LANSING, Mich. — As digital and web-based forms of dissemination have competed with video art, what is left to distinguish it as a standalone genre?