Opinion
Didn't get your chance to sit with Marina Abramović during her The Artist Is Present performance at MoMA? Don't worry, Copenhagen-based Pippin Barr has given you a second chance in the form of The Artist Is Present: The Video Game. He's also updated the whole thing so you have to pay $25 to get into
Opinion
Did video kill the performance art star? The New York Times asks this question in an article that claims that the constant spectacle of YouTube and social media have trumped performance art's shock value.
Interview
Some of the most memorable experiences that I’ve had with art have come about by accident. Last Thursday was one such experience during Myla DalBesio's "Young Money" performance.
Art
More images from the world’s oldest and largest art biennial event, the Venice Biennale, including photos from the American, Egyptian, Iraqi, Israeli and Polish pavilions, view of various social events and other random sightings.
Art
You may have heard that James Franco and Lady Gaga are performance artists, that their careers themselves are art objects built up over a lifetime. You may also believe that your Uncle Bob farting the alphabet is performance art. And maybe it is! Really, it's up to you, there's no quick and easy cha
Art
If the art world has been about globalism for quite a while I can say that is more true now than ever — if that's possible.
Art
There's the stuff everyone is applauding … yawn … but that's boring, we want to point out some things that are under most people's radar and why they deserve some notice. Here's our list of the 9 Most Underappreciated Art Shows & Events in New York during 2010.
Art
We're approaching a pivotal point in the progress of performance art in which the once rogue medium is becoming canonized, institutionalized and historicized. If the epic Marina Abramović retrospective at MoMA, The Artist is Present, wasn't enough to convince you that the early group of performance
Opinion
Rob Maguire, who is the founder and editor of Art Threat [http://artthreat.net/], a Canadian blog devoted to exploring political art and showcasing artists whose work inspires social change, hurled out this nugget during a recent online "water cooler" hosted by The National Post newspaper about art
Art
For the third and final installment in his series of YouTube Essays, called YouTube Archive + Anarchy, blogger and curator Brent Burket pretty much goes for broke. If this doesn't get you pumped about YouTube, or at least disturbed enough to stop using it for a few days, there's no hope for you. Fro
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Starting Wednesday, Brooklyn blogger and curator Brent Burket will be curating a three-day YouTube retrospective that mines the insanity of the online video juggernaut to find gems and germs that are sometimes painful to watch but always entertaining. His mission was to present an array of short vid
Art
Obrist is strange. There, I said it. In an event that often felt like a coffee klatch at Obrist's house, the art world power broker known as Hans Ulrich Obrist — he’s #2 on Art Review’s Power 100 — had a book reading last Saturday at MoMA’s PS1 in Long Island City for his newest publication, Hans Ul