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Pissing on Faces or When Women Behave Badly

by Betsy Huete April 13, 2022April 13, 2022

When Sophia Urista urinated on an audience member onstage, her act was framed and understood in a particularly gendered way.

Posted inBooks

Why an Italian Village Tied Itself to a Mountain

by Lauren Moya Ford September 7, 2021September 7, 2021

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.

Posted inOpinion

Fun Facts I Learned from a Year of Producing No Garbage

by Eve Schaub August 26, 2021August 27, 2021

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.

Posted inNews

How Many Latinx Women Artists Have Had Solo Shows At MoMA PS1?

by Valentina Di Liscia July 28, 2021July 28, 2021

In her performance last weekend, Yali Romagoza asked difficult questions about the museum’s representation of Latinx artists.

Posted inPerformance

At Boss Witch, Art Performances Will Thrive in Nature

by Elisa Wouk Almino June 6, 2021June 4, 2021

Launching this month in Los Angeles, Boss Witch will support site-specific performances in Joshua Tree, Mono Lake, and more.

Posted inOpinion

Coco Fusco Enlists Cuban Artists to Recite Heberto Padilla’s Forced Confessions

by Coco Fusco April 27, 2021April 27, 2021

Fifty years ago, poet Heberto Padilla was forced to publicly denounce himself and his friends as counterrevolutionaries.

Posted inArt

Marina Abramović Enhances Her Brand

by Olivia McEwan October 20, 2020November 5, 2020

Abramović’s interests lie more with perpetuating herself as a product than with what she actually expresses through her art.

Posted inArt

Autumn Knight Responds to the “Gaslighting of the Current Moment” in New Performance Series

by Dessane Lopez Cassell July 22, 2020November 5, 2020

For Knight, whose work slyly critiques the raced, gendered, and classed nature of power, a residency at the Kitchen will provide an opportunity to use the empty building as a collaborator.

Posted inArt

Using Humor, Two Artists Suggest We Can Change the Present (Not Just the Future)

by Dessane Lopez Cassell June 16, 2020November 5, 2020

Inspired by a Selena song, Arisleyda Dilone and Camilo Godoy’s upcoming performance invokes Latinx telenovela scripts, lullabies, and more to explore themes of self-love, longing, and desire.

Posted inArt

Artist Guadalupe Maravilla Is Centering Mutual Aid and Indigenous Medicinal Practices

by danilo machado May 29, 2020

Maravilla’s efforts, which include raising money and distributing groceries to undocumented communities, are one example of efforts directly addressing communities of color disproportionately impacted by the pandemic.

Posted inArt

Raging in the Pandemic’s Grip

by Thomas Micchelli May 16, 2020May 15, 2020

Sanja Latinović’s “Abandoned” pierces our self-protective veil with a glimpse of COVID’s raw truth.

Posted inOpinion

Case Dismissed: On Cuban Artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara’s Arrest and Release

by Coco Fusco April 22, 2020April 22, 2020

The artist has been detained over 20 times in two years. But this time, his colleagues on the island mobilized in his defense — and that made all the difference.

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