Performance art

Marina Abramovic's the Artist is Present at MoMA

This massive retrospective will include recreations of past pieces as well as a new, physically demanding work

Art Baselarchive

"Il Tempo del Postino": the performance art group show comes to Art Basel

Constructed for a theatrical setting, this event makes space and time its materials

Art Baselarchive

Visual art group show “Il Tempo del Postino” will take to stage at Art Basel 2009

Each artist participating will present a 15-minute long performance, transforming the space provided by Theater Basel

Without a trace: Interview with Tino Sehgal

Tino Sehgal refuses to document his work, rejects written contracts, and only takes cash

Interview with Marina Abramovic on her reperformances at the Guggenheim: Back to the classics

The Yugoslav-born artist will re-enact famous performances from the 1970s this month

Baselarchive

Paul McCarthy collaborates with filmmaker son in swashbuckling Munich show

At the climax of McCarthy's career, the cowboy and the pirate are brought together with pleasing dissonance

Yoko Onoarchive

Yoko Ono: women’s room

On view at Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris

Chris Burden bites the bullet in exhibition at Gagosian Beverly Hills

A cheeky reference to his early performance art is displayed alongside other new work

Interview with John Wood and Paul Harrison: “I like the little one”

John Wood and Paul Harrison’s minimal, deadpan performances make complicated references to the art world of the past—with a dash of slapstick

Tatearchive

'Live Culture' brings live performances to the Tate Modern

After a false start, Tate has a huge selection of works planned for its three-day run

Interview with Michael Landy post-'Breakdown': New directions and championing of the urban weed

Last year Michael Landy meticulously catalogued and then destroyed all his material possessions. For his latest show he has photographed and etched the plants that grow spontaneously throughout the city

Marina Abramovic's The house with the ocean view at the Sean Kelly gallery

The artist will be living for 12 long days within a set of purpose-built structures in the gallery while obeying a whole sequence of self-imposed strictures

Featuresarchive

Marina Abramovic: reflecting on the good witch of the East

The Yugoslavian-born artist continues to animate audiences with her exercises in pleasure and pain

Joseph Beuys' multiples on show at the Irish Museum of Modern Art

These works embodying the egalitarian nature of multiples have ironically been hidden from view until now

Books: Caroline Tisdall's new book is the way to go on anything Beuys

This substantial volume, predominantly photographic, is the comprehensive account of Joseph Beuys’s life and work

Museumsarchive

MoMA acquires 13,500 artists’ books

Franklin Furnace sold the collection to give them more space for performance

Books: New 'comprehensive biography' fails to go beyond the public face of Joseph Beuys

Heiner Stachelhaus' book on the German artist leaves a lot to be desired