Performance art

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”

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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

Cuban artist to stage new political project in Havana following arrest

Tania Bruguera, who has had her passport confiscated after planning a free-speech performance in Revolution Square, is due to host a 100-hour reading of the book The Origins of Totalitarianism ahead of the city's biennial

Chris Burden, the US sculptor and performance artist, has died, aged 69

Los Angeles-based artist who pushed performances and sculpture to extreme limits and illuminated Lacma

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Marina Abramovic will be done with dying after "Seven Deaths"

She will be stepping into her hero Maria Callas' shoes for the project

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Standards are upheld at Art Basel 2014 with consistent sales throughout

Dealers seem to have come to terms with the pressures of showing at such a prestigious fair, and prepared well ahead of time

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Art Basel devises new strand devoted to performance art

New one-off inclusion includes works by Abramovic, Ono and Nauman

Marina Abramovic dies on stage

The ceremony is part of the US debut of “The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic”

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Women artists are doing it for themselves at Frieze Masters

The London fair features a raft of women, including Judy Chicago, who are eschewing assembly-line art

Audio archive breaks silence on Sehgal

Curator’s interviews with performers could prove a “goldmine” for scholars, skirting the artist’s ban on documentation of his work