Performance art

Artist Pat Oleszko leads climate-themed Pride performance aboard New York’s Staten Island Ferry

The artist and a cast of collaborators staged a colourful cautionary performance about the environment on the popular ferry

Marina Abramović to ask Glastonbury crowd to stay silent for seven minutes

A sculpture by Hank Willis Thomas and a Mark Wallinger film will also be shown at the celebrated UK music festival

‘Absolutely unacceptable’: centre-right politicians in Germany call for boycott of family-themed art show

Members of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany party released a statement criticising the exhibition for its explicit imagery, but others have positioned the intervention as an attempt to impede artistic freedom

Should Marina Abramović exhibitions be rethought for the 21st century?

A lawsuit relating to a MoMA show has raised questions around performer safety

Alexandra Pirici's celebratory science experiment goes on show in Berlin

Live performances and sculptural installations at the Hamburger Bahnhof take inspiration from biochemistry and Ursula K. Le Guin

Nora Turato projects the art of self-improvement in Chicago

The artist will project a new commission onto the exterior of what was once the world’s biggest building as part of Art on the Mart

Tate Modern show celebrates Yoko Ono’s rebirth after decades of derision

Exhibition will look at the significance of the artist’s career before and after her famed relationship with John Lennon

Performer sues MoMA for alleged ‘sexual groping’ during Marina Abramović retrospective

John Bonafede, one of the artists who “reperformed” Abramović’s work for the show, claims he was sexually assaulted seven times during its run

Robert Whitman, artist renowned for experiments with performance and technology, has died, aged 88

Whitman was a pioneer of the early performance art events known as Happenings and collaborated with Robert Rauschenberg and others on technologically ambitious projects

Baltimore Museum of Art acquires its first piece of performance art

The performance by Jefferson Pinder is one of more than 100 new acquisitions recently announced by the institution

Artists and curators pay tribute to performance pioneer Pope.L who has died aged 68

The artist, known for his Crawl series, treated 'absurdity of racism in an unflinching way’

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Marina Abramović spreads the love in one-off performance at the Royal Academy

Against backdrop of turbulent real-world events, crowds gathered and hugged for Unconditional Love recital

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Looking for love: one-off Marina Abramović performance sells out in hours

The queen of performance art is making a rare appearance at the Royal Academy in London

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'I could easily do this opera until I’m 103': Marina Abramović on 7 Deaths of Maria Callas

We speak to the performance artist about the UK premiere of her tribute to the legendary singer at the English National Opera

What’s behind the row engulfing the UK’s National Trust?

Plus, a protest-themed tenth edition of the Performa Biennial and a restored portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger

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New York’s performance art biennial returns, with a focus on the heyday of conceptual art

The 2023 Performa Biennial takes as its starting point the conceptual art of the 1960s and 70s, across works by 40 contemporary artists

A transparent show for a transphobic world: performance artist Puppies Puppies exhibits herself in a glass box for four months

The artist has recreated her bedroom and studio in the lobby of Manhattan's New Museum for a durational work grounded in activism

Marina Abramović: a buyer's guide

Everything you need to know about the artist’s market before you start building your collection

Marina Abramović: the artist on her ‘best ever show’

Plus, Frans Hals at London's National Gallery and a Peter Paul Rubens painting inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses

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Art crowd attends Piccadilly church for Rachel Jones’s new opera piece

Hey, Maudie draws on classical tropes, West African traditions, jazz and gospel

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Oppenheimer star Cillian Murphy and Tracey Emin turn up for Marina Abramović's blockbuster RA show

Visitors queued to walk through Imponderabilia, the 1977 piece featuring a naked couple

Winner of El Museo del Barrio and Maestro Dobel's inaugural $50,000 art prize revealed

In addition to the significant cash prize, the Cuban performance artist Carlos Martiel will get a show at the Manhattan museum in 2024

Marina Abramovic to take over London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall this autumn

A selection of artists have been invited by Abramovic to stage long-form performances in the concert venue—including backstage areas normally off-limits to visitors

A Mata of Factory: Manchester's footballing legend goes avant-garde

The footballer turned curator Juan Mata makes a star turn at Manchester International Festival, which opens in the city's new Factory International venue

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Basel to get new cultural venue in former mayonnaise factory

Pop-up arts programme from Basel Social Club comes ahead of major regeneration initiative in the city

Feeling the burn: artist hits the gym as mercury rises in Basel

Augustas Serapinas creates the ultimate Art Basel workout using plaster cast pieces

Gore, guts and gongs: Hermann Nitsch’s six-day 'orgiastic mystery theatre' restaged at his country castle near Vienna

The performance featuring a slaughtered bull is considered the highpoint of the late Austrian Actionist's work

Florence Peake brings dancing canvases to spectacular modern church in south London

At Southwark Park Galleries, performers are splattered with paint and read aloud fragments of canonical art-historical texts