Art
Rashaad Newsome Is Having a Ball
Five passages on Rashaad Newsome's "FIVE (The Drawing Center)."
Performance Art
Books
All the Feelings: Jennifer Doyle’s 'Hold It Against Me'
What is included in the field of a work of art? The medium may be painting or performance, the subject matter may be landscapes or the death of a lover, and the aesthetics may come from a particular tradition or vein of art. But beyond that, when we discuss a work of art, what else can or should be
Performance
The Questions of Performa 13
Marianne Vitale’s “The Missing Book of Spurs,” her commission for Performa 13, features half-naked women in corsets, a man in assless chaps, and “natives” in outfits inspired by traditional Native American clothing; it features blocks of wood, a wooden sculpture that looks like a torpedo, and a larg
Art
Selected Secrets from a Disillusioned Generation
What is most important to us — as writers, thinkers, makers, and believers in the arts? What happens when the world we live in no longer feels like the one we knew? In a culture of disappointment, what do we need to continue making work? To continue believing in the work that we make?
Art
The Art of Nightlife, or Debauchery as Social Practice
“One point of art is that it’s forming something we don’t have the language for yet,” observes Jake Yuzna, Director of Public Programs at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), in discussing the FUN Conference on Nightlife as Social Practice.
Performance
Dissecting Contemporary Dance
Even for those well-versed in contemporary dance, Maria Hassabi’s work can sometimes test the very applicability of the term. Sure, postmodernism has expanded dance’s vocabulary to include all sorts of things well outside the limitations of formal technique, from pedestrian movement to text and so o
Art
The Corporate Vampires of San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO — Three-person performance art troupe Mail Order Brides/M.O.B. is exploring the intersection of corporate culture, vampiric legends, immigrant realities, and the tech community in their newest work.
Art
Performance Art, Present and Future
KANSAS CITY, Missouri — There's an amazing show about contemporary performance art, and it may be coming to an art venue near you. Having just left the H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute, curator RoseLee Goldberg's exhibition Performance Now is like a touring indie rock band, minus
Art
Animating the Archive: Black Performance Art's Radical Presence
Radical Presence gives a great taste of some of the work done by black artists working in performance over the past five decades. And one of the best things about it is that it’s not just a static archive.
Art
A Performance Artist's Grotesque Femininity
My memory finally caught up with the ephemera of a familiar artist when I went to go see Katya Grokhovsky’s show Bodybeautiful at Galerie Protégé.
Art
Exclusive Highlights from Performa 13's Surrealist Reader
Here is an exclusive look at Performa's Surrealist Reader, along with excerpts of many of the texts.
Interview
On Emerson, Process, and the Room within a Room: A Conversation with Karinne Keithley Syers
Watching Karinne Keithley Syers dance is like watching someone tell a ghost story with her hands and eyes. One hand obscures her vision while the other guides her body through unknown territory. Where she is, or how she arrived there, feels less pertinent than her strong sense of self-awareness and