Opinion
Artists Confront the Uncomfortable Legacy of Lenin
This week, two men made headlines when they doused the tomb of the Soviet Union's first leader Vladimir Lenin with holy water while reportedly shouting "Rise up and leave!"
Performance Art
Interview
Nice Catch: A Conversation with a Trio of Performance Art Curators
Andrew Dinwiddie, Caleb Hammons, and Jeff Larson are the curators of CATCH, a New York–based monthly performance series that features some of the most exciting artists working in theater, dance, performance art, and everything in between.
Interview
Penny Arcade on the Professionalization of Performance Art
“New York used to be Sin City," says performance artist Penny Arcade. "I came to New York to sin! New York City went from being the Big Apple to the Big Cupcake. People are staggering from one cupcake to another!” She has a point.
Art
From Facetime to Face Time, an Art Project Bridges the IRL Gap
Friendships confined solely to digital interaction are an increasingly common component of contemporary social life. These are precisely the types of relationships that performance artist Miao Jiaxin is looking to activate with his latest Airbnb-based project, "Blind Meeting in Bushwick — A Tribute
News
Franklin Furnace, Performance Art Pioneer, Relocates to Pratt Under Long-Term Agreement
The storied avant-garde performance art nonprofit Franklin Furnace has relocated to the Pratt Institute campus under an agreement that will see the organization "nest" at the institution on a long term basis.
Art
Art That Was Always Meant to Be Hidden
The portraits in Oliver Jeffers' Dipped Paintings series exist as wholes only in the memories of those who witnessed their submersion.
Art
A Young Artist Debuts at Gagosian, Thanks to Richard Prince
Richard Prince unwittingly gave an emerging conceptual artist his Gagosian debut. The appropriation artist's current Gagosian exhibition New Portraits — which Hyperallergic's Tiernan Morgan dismissed as "an amusing exercise, but it doesn’t translate as great art" — features an Instagram photo from S
Art
Dread Scott Enacts the Images of Oppression
The archway under the Manhattan Bridge was the site of artist Dread Scott's one-time-only performance "On the Impossibility of Freedom in a Country Founded on Slavery and Genocide."
Performance
Machismo Ain't Just for Boys Anymore
PORTLAND, Oregon — "Macho doesn't prove mucho," socialite and actress Zsa Zsa Gabor once punned.
Opinion
Better Than Performance Art
On Wednesday, artist Jayson Musson tweeted "lol this performance art scene in She's All That is better than real performance art," and his 84 characters opened the flood gates of memory for me.
In Brief
Performance Artist Does the Impossible, Shows Up Courbet's "Origin of the World"
A twentysomething woman sits down in front of Gustave Courbet's "Origin of the World" (1866), pulls up her dress, splays her legs, and shows her vulva, clitoris, and possibly part of her vagina to the visitors in the gallery.
Art
Surgery as Performance Art: A Restoration Comedy
I’m in a surgical center in Scottsdale, Arizona, being treated as if I were an esteemed guest at a Marriot. Better. A series of very nice people are being serially very nice to me, asking me questions, checking-in with how I feel, giving appropriate boosts.