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Yvonne Rainer

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Yvonne Rainer’s Conceptual Chess, Revived and Restaged

by Cassie Packard November 22, 2019November 22, 2019

In its first performances since 1965, the recent Performa revival of Rainer’s Parts of Some Sextets prompts considerations of how we can safeguard the choreographer’s visionary oeuvre while staying true to her vision.

Yvonne Rainer in the “Bach” Section of Terrain, photo by Al Giese, 1963. Image courtesy of Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2006.M.24)
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Early 2019 Events at MA Curatorial Practice, School of Visual Arts

by School of Visual Arts (SVA) January 9, 2019

Legendary choreographer Yvonne Rainer, immortality, experimental ethics, and New Internationalism are highlights of upcoming events.

Posted inArt

When Barriers Between Performance and Art Didn’t Exist

Avatar photo by Zachary Small October 16, 2018

MoMA’s latest exhibition on the Judson Dance Theater feels like a long overdue thesis on how to correctly present performance within a museum.

Posted inArt

Yvonne Rainer on How Filmmaking Gave Her Language

by Steve Macfarlane July 21, 2017July 20, 2017

The dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker looks back on her career in light of her film retrospective starting at the Film Society of Lincoln Center.

Posted inArt

A Performance Counters Violence with Meditations on Empathy

Avatar photo by Carey Dunne November 2, 2016November 2, 2016

On November 6, the Moving Company will stage a new performance, in which mover Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze will dance in cement shoes and yellow-feathered knee pads, while Tina Wang and Mor Mendel joust with fly swatters.

Posted inArt

Rebooting a Landmark Series of Art and Technology Collaborations

by Ellen Pearlman September 23, 2016September 25, 2016

The first large-scale art and technology collaborations that occurred in the United States are not as legendary as, for example, the 9th Street Show that launched the New York School of Abstract Expressionism, but they should be.

Posted inArt

Minimalist Duets in Sculpture and Dance

by Jason Andrew October 20, 2015October 23, 2015

During the summer of 1960, dance artists Simone Forti, Nancy Meehan and Yvonne Rainer rented rehearsal space at Dance Players on Sixth Avenue so they could improvise together.

Posted inArt

A Performance Artist Draws with His Teeth

by Natalie Axton October 2, 2015October 2, 2015

Tomorrow at noon, visual and performing artist Tony Orrico will sit down at an eight-by-eight-foot sheet of paper and begin to chew.

Posted inArt

From the Couches to the Conservation Labs, the Whitney Museum’s New Building

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton April 23, 2015April 27, 2015

They say you don’t realize what you were missing until you get it. Well, New York City was missing a building for showing modern and contemporary art.

Posted inArt

Selected Secrets from a Disillusioned Generation

by Christine Shan Shan Hou November 16, 2013November 18, 2013

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?

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When New York Was Really Happening

by Ellen Pearlman February 14, 2012February 18, 2012

Pace Gallery has mounted a world class mini-museum show on the art of the Happening using its vast holdings as well as supplemental gleanings loaned from the Whitney, MOMA and Getty museums.

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Artist Who Sparked Yvonne Rainer Letter to MOCA Speaks Out

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian November 23, 2011November 23, 2011

We now know the identity of the artist who initially wrote Yvonne Rainer to complain of the conditions of the Marina Abramović performance during the LA MOCA gala. In a letter titled “Open Letter to Artists” published by the Performance Club, performer Sara Wookey explains her motivate for initially auditioning for the work …

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