Performance art

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Brendan Fernandes animates a century-old Chicago auditorium through dance

The artist’s year-long residency at the Driehaus Museum centres on a recurring dance piece in the recently renovated Murphy Auditorium

Polish pavilion at Venice Biennale explores fluidity of language with film recorded underwater

Deaf and hearing performers worked on the project, filmed in a Warsaw swimming pool

'I wanted to catch the desperation': Dries Verhoeven on turning the Dutch pavilion into a bunker for the Venice Biennale

The open, light-filled Dutch pavilion has been turned into a dark bunker-like space, where visitors will experience a raw vocal performance

‘We are complicit’: Austrian artist Florentina Holzinger’s immersive Venice Biennale pavilion brings apocalypse to the city

This year’s Austrian pavilion echoes the science-fiction film “Waterworld”, with a side order of body horror

German artist Anne Imhof to be subject of ‘ambitious’ Hong Kong solo exhibition

The Golden Lion-winning artist's first Asian solo show will feature works spanning multiple media, including a new commission

Marina Abramović rolls into Davos with an immersive project that encourages world leaders to take a digital detox

The artist is collaborating with the curator Mirjam Varadinis to create “THE BUS”, a work that allows WEF attendees to focus on the here and now

Tehching Hsieh: ‘I didn’t try to be a superman, my work is not about heroism’

The Taiwan-born artist is best known for a series of year-long performances which subjected his mind and body to near-torturous conditions. As a major retrospective of his work opens in the US, he discusses these remarkable pieces

Performa brings digital doubles, kids reciting animal noises and more to New York

New York’s performance art biennial also features a slate of Lithuanian artists, a reimagined tale of supernatural mourning and a pop-rock supergroup singing protest songs

Dancenews

‘You’re so close you can see how their toes grip the floor’: Wayne McGregor on his radical new immersive dance experience

The work, which is travelling to London’s Somerset House in October, comprises a panoramic installation featuring a 12k LED, 26-million-pixel screen

Pussy Riot co-founder starts Los Angeles prison performance with existential scream

Nadya Tolokonnikova calls the two-week residency at the Museum of Contemporary Art her first durational performance

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Comment | Balanchine is Modern master whose impact on contemporary art should not be overlooked

The choreographer’s formal gestures and patterns make him crucial to contemporary performance art

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago receives $10m gift to support performance programme

The anonymous gift allows the museum to continue commissioning performance-art projects and expand efforts to collect and archive performances

Anne Imhof’s largest US project to date is a Shakespearean ode of doom and optimism

The German artist’s new project at the Park Avenue Armory is a collaboration with the curator Klaus Biesenbach

Leigh Bowery at Tate Modern, Ukraine’s art world three years on, Max Beckmann and the Gothic Modern—podcast

Celebrating the life and work of the Australian performance artist, how Ukrainian artists and institutions are continuing to resist, and a close look at a pair of works from an Oslo exhibition

Artist offers bird’s-eye view of Los Angeles wildfire devastation

Madeline Hollander teamed up with Santa Monica Flyers for Frieze Projects

This Tate Modern exhibition gets up close and personal with Leigh Bowery

The London institution dedicates an exhibition to the boundary-breaking artist and performer whose body was his canvas

Railroads of the American West provide the subjects, sounds and instruments in new musical performance

The artists and composers Raven Chacon and Guillermo Galindo will debut the final movement in their collaborative performance and graphic musical score

Pippa Garner, art and gender provocateur, has died, aged 82

Garner's witty deviations in form, text and body addressed the consumerism and sameness plaguing US culture

Indiareview

Dance performance addresses fraught politics around South Asian heritage

Mandeep Raikhy's touring work, inspired by the prehistoric statue Dancing Girl, considers how the past is wielded in the present

Lorraine O’Grady, conceptual artist who dissected language and dualities, has died, aged 90

O’Grady, who devoted herself to art in her early forties, spent the ensuing decades making incisive works that spanned photography, collage, performance and more

What a catch! Italian artist trio to serve up fish market performance in New York

After an inaugural outing in Milan last year, Canemorto is transforming an East Village gallery into an irreverent market for handcrafted fish art

Performance of Rasheed Araeen's ballet on water cancelled after high levels of sewage found in London river

A public performance of the participatory art installation, organised by outdoor sculpture trail The Line, was due to take place today on the Waterworks River at Olympic Park

Narcissister’s new show expands on her subversive brand of magic

The artist’s project at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn is her first large-scale performance commission since 2012

Diarynews

'The power of a vagina': how Marina Abramović plans to keep Manchester rain free

The performance artist will stage a ritualistic piece reflecting the traditions of an ancient village

Art activists bill businesses for billions in environmental damages

Artists mount spoof invoice performance against Western Australia’s biggest carbon emitters

The extravagant Olympics opening ceremony can’t hide the truth about a divided France

The kitsch, art-filled event and the reaction that followed highlighted the deep fractures within the country—where support for the far right has grown

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