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Watch “Complaints Choir of Chicago,” the Moving Image Fair’s Funniest Video
In case you missed last week’s third edition of Moving Image, the Armory Week video art fair, you owe it to yourself to at least watch the funniest featured artwork — Vines notwithstanding — Tellervo...
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Tilda Swinton Goes on Display at MoMA in Surprise Performance
Tilda Swinton appeared at the MoMA today in a surprise performance in which she slept in a glass box with nothing inside it except some water, a small mattress, and a pillow. Turns out, the actress is...
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Art World Missed Connections: Tilda Swinton at MoMA, Sculptural Met...
It must be spring (finally), because hearts are heating up in the New York City art community, with this week’s Art World Missed Connections bringing us a whopping six items, all involving major...
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Internet Art Critic Hennessy Youngman Presents “CVS Bangers,” a Mellow...
Our favorite rapper/artist/critic/young man Hennessy Youngman (aka Jayson Musson, among many other self-bestowed monikers) has given the internet yet another musical gem – that is, if you rightfully...
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Watch Kalup Linzy’s Feature Film “Romantic Loner” in its Entirety Right Here!
Performance and video artist Kalup Linzy’s feature film “Romantic Loner” went live on YouTube yesterday. The film is part of a multi-platform performance project in which the Brooklyn-based artist...
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Fine, Here Are More Shots of Tilda Swinton Sleeping at MoMA
We don’t normally encourage people to stare at other people while they’re sleeping, but that is precisely the taboo being exploited at the Museum of Modern Art by Tilda Swinton in her current series...
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Ragnar Kjartansson Taps The National To Perform One Song for Six Hours at...
Ragnar Kjartansson, the Icelandic artist who is coming off the success of his hugely popular mutli-channel video “The Visitors” at Luhring Augustine, will close MoMA PS1’s Sunday Sessions season by...
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Experience a Prototype of Marina Abramovic’s Institute at the Luminato...
If waiting for the grand opening of the Marina Abramovic Institute (MAI) in Hudson, New York, has become an ordeal almost as excruciating as one of Marina Abramovic’s own performance art pieces, fear...
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Inside Tino Sehgal’s New Performance Piece, “Ann Lee,” at Marian Goodman’s...
“I like museums. They communicate with the past,” says a surprisingly composed adolescent girl in an empty white room at Frieze New York. “What a beautiful idea, communicating with the past,” she adds,...
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NADA New York Has an Ambitious Dance Program
With picnic tables, provisions, a gorgeous view of the Manhattan Bridge and a fully-packed program of contemporary dance, the waterfront NADA New York patio is as cool as any secret Liz Glynn-designed...
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Take That, Tilda: Milla Jovovich Spent Eight Hours in a Giant Glass House in...
On Wednesday Milla Jovovich, model, muse, and actor of “Resident Evil” and “The Fifth Element” fame, spent eight hours in a glass house in Venice, her only means of communication with the outside...
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Meet “Struggling Sehgal,” a Meme Inspired by Tino’s Pained Venice Biennale...
By now you know that the London-born, Berlin-based performance artist Tino Sehgal received the Golden Lion at this year’s Venice Biennale for his two-person beatboxing dance piece in Massimiliano...
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Creative Time’s Second Annual Sandcastle Competition Set for August 9
Creative Time announced Friday that its Sandcastle Competition will return to Far Rockaway this year for a second run. On August 9, a selected number of artists and their teams will once again vie to...
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With Second Hitler-Saluting Performance, Has Jonathan Meese Finally Gone Off...
Artist-provocateur Jonathan Meese shocked his audience at Germany’s Nationaltheater Mannheim on Wednesday evening with a one-man performance titled “Generaltanz den Erzschiller.” According to the...
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Marina Abramovic Wants to Know How it Felt for You to Sit Across From Her
The titular performance from Marina Abramovic’s hugely popular 2010 exhibition “The Artist is Present” at MoMA fascinated onlookers, moved participants to tears and swung the door wide open for the...
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Marina Abramovic Launches Kickstarter Campaign to Raise $600k for Her Institute
On Friday performance artist and Jay Z collaborator Marina Abramovic launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $600,000 to help build her Marina Abramovic Institute (MAI) in Hudson, New York. The...
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VIDEO: That Time People Mud-Wrestled in Walter De Maria’s “New York Earth Room”
While nothing much ever grows at “The New York Earth Room,” an austere and sublime installation of 280,000 pounds of earth in a 3,600 square-foot white-walled loft in Soho by conceptual and land...
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Watch the Trailer for Jay Z’s “Picasso Baby: A Performance Art Film”
“Concerts are pretty much performance art,” muses rapper and Marina Abramovic acolyte Sean “Jay Z” Carter in the trailer for his video art debut “Picasso Baby: A Performance Art Film” (embedded...
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Performa 13 Commissions Include Chapman Bros., Marianne Vitale, and Rashid...
On Monday Performa, New York City’s performance art biennial, announced the artist commissions for its 2013 edition, which is slated to run November 1-24 at more than 60 venues throughout the city....
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Jonathan Meese Acquitted in Trial for Nazi Salute
KASSEL — Artist Jonathan Meese was acquitted on Wednesday in what has come to be known as the “Hitlergruß-Prozess,” or Nazi Salute Trial, in Germany. Throughout the trial in Kassel, Meese’s defense...
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