Performance art
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
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
Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle returns to the big screen in New York
The screening of this ambitious contribution to cinema, showing in its entirety in New York for the first time in eight years, coincides with the debut of Barney's newest project
London Gallery Weekend announces performance commissions
Li Hei Di, Minh-Lan Tran and Nicole Bachmann will perform their work around the city in June
Is Lithuania set to become the new centre of performance art?
The launch of the Vilnius Biennial of Performance Art builds on the Baltic country's success at the 2019 Venice Biennale, where its operatic art installation scooped the Golden Lion
Hollywood’s newest art space takes up residence in artist's future burial plot
Nao Bustamante unveils Los Angeles's most ghoulish gallery space in the legendary Hollywood Forever cemetery
A brush with... Joan Jonas
An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from the writer Jorge Luis Borges to her life-changing visit to Iceland
More than 1,000 people help artist JR hold up giant images of refugee children for Turin performance
The vast works shown in Northern Italy were made last year at camps in locations including Greece and Rwanda
Metropolitan Museum receives $10m donation for ongoing performance art initiative
The philanthropist Adrienne Arsht is a longtime supporter of the museum and performing arts programmes nationwide
Tania Bruguera pays tribute to political prisoners in Miami performance
The artist and activist staged a performance at El Espacio 23 during Miami Art Week "to remind people what is happening in Cuba right now"
Out of control: artist puts on 27 hazmat suits for Times Square performance protesting China's Covid restrictions
Sell your soul: how digital signatures and NFTs are creating a market for intangible art
Some of the works being minted on the blockchain are all hype—but some are brilliant conceptual works
Artist stages 'slave ship' installation at London building that once housed British Navy offices
Grada Kilomba's multilingual work is part of 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair at Somerset House
The price of performance art: galleries face challenges in protecting their artists' legacies
As the discipline's artists age and die, and the art world they occupy professionalises and expands, the question of their legacy grows
Second act for lost Jannis Kounellis performance ahead of major show
The work last seen 50 years ago was thought to have been lost. It will now open an exhibition of the Greek artist's work at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis
Babestation-backed sex-tape artist unable to travel to his London show from France
Pyotr Pavlensky, who faces prosecution for leaking video of French politician Benjamin Griveaux, could not obtain visa in time for opening of exhibition
Mumbai to get major new venue for art and performance—funded by one of India's richest families
The Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre will include exhibition halls and a 2,000-seat theatre
Art and food in the nude: my liberating experience at an underground culture club
The Füde Experience by the multidisciplinary artist Charlie Ann Max was a glimpse of the future I am fighting for
How can live art be held in museum collections? Tate conference to share its conclusions
An online conference backed by a research project will explore how institutions can care for time-based, live and organic art
Why Queen Elizabeth II was one of the greatest performance artists of all time
The British sovereign made herself globally visible, using personal presence, coded symbolism, and the power of broadcasting, to uphold a constitutional monarchy in an era of unparalleled social change
Fair or not, Tate's discrimination row has damaged its reputation among the very artists it needs to attract
The institution denies claims that it refused to allow the increasingly prominent Black performance artist Jade Montserrat to participate in a project for Tate Exchange
‘This show was in some way my own wake’: Solange Knowles on her Venice Biennale performance, the focus of a new book
The artist, musician and performer discusses ‘In Past Pupils and Smiles’, a performance she staged in Venice in 2019 that is chronicled in a new book
Summer of discontent: two London shows pose burning environmental questions amid UK heatwave
Helsinki’s Flow Festival is a pioneering carbon neutral event—but its art shows get lost in the decor
Experiential sound and light works included in the music festival are so immersive that they are almost hard to find
Dead pigs, guts and crucifixion: an intense encounter with Nitsch's epic performance about creation
This version of the late artist's 6-Day Play is a "toned down" iteration of the 1998 original—but it felt primal, real and morbidly beautiful