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As we detailed two weeks ago, Mitt Romney made it clear in a recent interview with Fortune magazine that funding the arts is not his priority. Obama and his team haven't exactly responded with a resounding defense or promotion of the arts (Will Brand speculates on why over at the L Magazine), but la
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No, the artist was not present at Film Forum for a screening of her documentary, The Artist Is Present, a couple of weeks ago. The artist is Marina Abramović, and though she wasn't there — neither was the director of the film, Matthew Akers — I kept expecting her glamorous self to storm in as a last
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Hyperallergic writers and siblings Brendan and Marisa Carroll recently went to see Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present, a documentary about the performance artist’s Museum of Modern Art retrospective. The museum retrospective included photos, videos and re-creations of Abramović’s performances f
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So I clicked on Jillian Steinhauer’s post — “Is Marina Abramović Trying to Create a Performance Art Utopia?” — and the first thing that popped into my head was, “Why does it look like a suburban public library, circa 1962?” What I’m talking about is the architectural rendering from none other than O
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Nearly 150 people gathered in MoMA PS1's performance dome this morning to hear Marina Abramović present plans for her new museum dedicated to performance art in Hudson, NY. As the crowd took their places on and around the oversize red ottomans filling the space, people gazed at and stuck their heads
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I was reminded yesterday afternoon, while walking through mazes of pop-up galleries, tent-like hallways, magazine stands and oddly placed sculptures just asking to be tripped over, that the contemporary wing of the Armory Show — which runs through Sunday at Piers 92 and 94 — means different things t
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The idea of an art meme feels counterintuitive: art is supposed to reflect deep issues about society and self, or at least be technically complex, while memes are quick hacks about cats, shit people say and dancing Obamas. But this past year, the internet has been seeing a ton of new memes that invo
Opinion
The debate surrounding performance art and the rights of artists has started to grow past the original controversy initiated by Marina Abramović’s gala performance for LA MOCA earlier this month. Now, three reperformers who took part in MoMA's Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present retrospective la
Opinion
We now know the identity of the artist who initially wrote Yvonne Rainer to complain of the conditions of the Marina Abramović performance during the LA MOCA gala. In a letter titled "Open Letter to Artists" published by the Performance Club, performer Sara Wookey explains her motivate for initially
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The final text and signatories of Yvonne Rainer's letter to Jeffrey Deitch/MOCA protesting Marina Abramović's performance for the MOCA gala is on the Artforum website [http://artforum.com/news/#news29378]. There are 50 signatures on the letter.
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Since Marina Abramović was picked to provide the entertainment for LA MOCA's upcoming gala we've all been wondering what the performance art queen would conjure up to do her bidding. Now, we kind of know and it raises some serious questions, namely, is performance art ever an excuse for labor abuse?
Interview
Pippin Barr works and teaches at the Center for Computer Game Research at IT University in Copenhagen, and readers of Hyperallergic will know him as the guy who created "The Artist Is Present" video game, which has already become an online sensation. I caught up with Barr online to ask him about "Th