Art Review
Leigh Bowery Was His Own Artwork
In a contemporary society made creatively bland by the homogenizing factor of social media, one yearns again for such an original artist.
Performance Art
News
A Giant Vulva Is Walking the Streets of Europe
Dressed in flowing pink robes, artist and activist Dee Mulrooney — or “Growler” — is urging the British Museum to return a Síle na Giġ statue back to Ireland.
Art
An Erotic Puppet Theater Makes Its Grand NYC Debut
“That Paradise Place” explores the romantic lives and sexual fantasies of artists with disabilities through song and puppetry.
Performance
An Abortion-Oriented Cosmology Tale Debuts in NYC
Alexandra Neuman’s latest performance, The Collective Womb, reframes abortion as a natural exchange of energy between the body and the world.
Art
A Black Bean Grows Quietly in Washington Square Park
In a 10-day meditation, Jemila MacEwan silently nurtures a seed in the palm of their hand amidst the hustle and bustle of the iconic public park.
Art
VALIE EXPORT Insists on Taking Up Space
EXPORT’s urban interventions in her exhibition Embodied alert us to the risks of being read as femme in a highly visible, public space.
Performance
Audience Members Cut Iranian Artist’s Hair in Moving Performance
At San Francisco’s Legion of Honor, Mobina Nouri took scissors to her own strands and invited others to do the same.
Performance
Dancing Toward Peace and Healing
In She Who Lives on the Road to War, Rosy Simas combines installation and performance to address the immense losses experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Opinion
Pissing on Faces or When Women Behave Badly
When Sophia Urista urinated on an audience member onstage, her act was framed and understood in a particularly gendered way.
Books
Why an Italian Village Tied Itself to a Mountain
The event was devised by artist Maria Lai and involved almost all of Ulassai’s 1,000 inhabitants and required nearly 17 miles of light blue denim ribbon.
Opinion
Fun Facts I Learned from a Year of Producing No Garbage
We’ve all seen the zero wasters on Instagram showing off their mason jars full of a year’s worth of trash. But most people aren’t going to be willing or able to change their lifestyles to that degree.
News
How Many Latinx Women Artists Have Had Solo Shows At MoMA PS1?
In her performance last weekend, Yali Romagoza asked difficult questions about the museum's representation of Latinx artists.