Performance art

Tate Modern opens first 'live' show with mist, plants and a rave

Series of exhibitions dedicated to live art will be annual with BMW's support

Performa 17 commissions will investigate Dada's history of performance

This year's projects include work by William Kentridge and a collaboration between Julie Mehretu and Jason Moran

Performance: stage left, right and centre in the new Tate

What you can expect to see in the galleries and exhibitions spaces this summer

Lawnews

Russian political artist Pyotr Pavlensky released from custody with $15,000 fine

But he told reporters after the trial that he refused to pay and mocked the prosecutors’ charges of damaging cultural heritage by burning FSB doors

KGB prison doors given questionable cultural heritage status

Political artist Pyotr Pavlensky, who set fire to the entrance on Lubyanka Square as part of a performance, is now facing trial in Moscow

Janine Antoni gets wrapped up in her work at Philadelphia’s Fabric Workshop

Project celebrates the interconnectedness of life through dance, installations and sculptures

How to be a performance artist like Marina Abramovic

Athens project trains Greek artists and the public in the “Abramovic Method”

Moscow judge extends detention of Russian protest artist

A cheery Pyotr Pavlensky demanded again in the courtroom to be tried as a terrorist for his political performances against the Russian government

Opera-loving artist Raqib Shaw to show new paintings at Glyndebourne

Artist is the second to be selected for White Cube pop-up gallery at the music festival

'Dear New Yorkers, tear down those walls': Tania Bruguera to stage public vote on immigration

Referendum performance is part of the Rubin Foundation’s political art show When Artists Speak Truth…

Artist's immigrant performance axed

Untitled fair organisers cancelled it just hours before it was set to take place

Carrie Mae Weems to pay tribute to Obama’s response to racist shootings in Charleston

Artist's work, which will be performed in June, is meant as a gift to the US president

No costumes needed for Xavier Le Roy’s new work

Arts patron John Kaldor helps bring six-hour performance to Sydney

Russian performance artist sets fire to Federal Security Service building in Moscow

Petr Pavlensky has been taken into custody by police for his latest piece protesting state surveillance

Theaster Gates brings new life to bombed-out Bristol church

Performances from poetry readings to gospel singing will run 24/7 for the Chicago-artist’s first public art project in the UK

Performers tell museums to get their act together on fees

Institutions are spending millions on spaces for performance but some curators are “surprised they have to pay live art performers at all”

Reviewnews

Hal Foster in praise of dead art

In an excerpt from his new book, the art historian discusses the return of performance and process in contemporary art

Tree of Codes collaboration lights up the Park Avenue Armory

The dance piece choreographed by Wayne McGregor includes a set designed by Olafur Eliasson and music by Jamie xx

Private collector adds performance space to London gallery

David Roberts to show more ”live projects” in his Camden building—and may launch initiatives outside the capital

Berlin’s summer of performance and film art starts this weekend

From the Foreign Affairs festival to commercial gallery shows, time-based art can be found all over the German city