Performance art

Interview with Vito Acconci: From my space to yours

Shaking off the "continental" label has been a lifetime's work

From my space to yours: Interview with Vito Acconci

In the late 1960s, the former poet became a photographer, video and performance artist, using his own body as a subject

Filmsarchive

New Abramovic film explores public and private endurance tests

Akers's film recounts the artist’s decades of arduous performances—and reveals a charming woman beneath the steely surface

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Marina Abramovic hires Rem Koolhaas to design her centre

The museum will purportedly need $8m in funds

March 2012archive

Andrea Fraser: exposing the art world from within

From mock guided tours to a sexual encounter with a collector, the US artist's work is a unique form of institutional critique

Interview with Glenn Kaino: Now you see him...

When Kaino thought the art world was getting too obsessed with money, he retreated into the realm of magic

Beuys returns to Schloss Moyland after refurbishment

Some works will not be on display, lest the museum incur a €250,000 copyright fine

Paul McCarthy: 'Artists are seen as one step above criminals'

The artist on his early B-movie ambitions, art schools, the pressure to move to New York and why he’ll never leave Los Angeles

Interview with Antony Hegarty: “I think the art world is where I belong”

The musician explains why he is performing in the stage production The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic

Featuresarchive

Marina Abramovic, Doug Aitken and Matthew Barney are leading the way in a new kind of theatrical art

"In long, durational performance, you change the performer and the public" says Abramovic

Art Baselarchive

Claudia Waldner causes a stir with ball at Art Basel 2011

The artist held nothing back as calamity was narrowly avoided

Artist’s copyright versus curator’s freedom of expression: The wider legal significance of the Beuys case

The estate of Joseph Beuys has brought the Museum Schloss Moyland to court over photographs of Beuys' performance art

Museum Schloss Moyland banned from displaying images of Beuys performance

German court rules museum breached artist’s copyright by displaying photographs of 1964 happening

Marina Abramovic exhibition opens at the Lisson Gallery

She enthused over the photo posing techniques perfected by Marilyn Monroe

Interview with Marina Abramovic: "Life is getting faster, the art has to go slower”

Marina Abramovic on the pain of sitting still, being the black sheep of the family and working with Robert Wilson

Interview with Francis Alÿs: “Each situation calls for a new answer”

The artist on running inside tornadoes, failing to sabotage the art market and the appeal of Mexico City

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

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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