The ravishing images in Hyperion: Letters of a Terrorist, the Italian Romeo Castellucci's stage adaptation of a Romantic epistolary novel by Friedrich Hölderlin, accrete as optic poetry, awakening…
Given the abundance of performative sexuality that imbues the history of Fire Island Pines, a secluded area of New York's Long Island long known as a haven and a summer destination for the gay comm…
Unlike previous years, video was surprisingly well represented this year at Art Basel Miami Beach, which is otherwise focused on static objects for sale.
On the evening prior to the opening of this year's Art Basel Miami Beach fair, New York's Public Art Fund premiered four commissioned works in Collins Park, located in front of the Bass Museum of Art…
Clifford Owens's "Five Days" was an ambitious undertaking, if for no other reason than that it occurred on five successive evenings, Nov. 18 to 22, in performances lasting from one to two hours each…
This year's Performa performance art biennial included a highly unusual piece featuring actors not often seen onstage. In Disabled Theater (Nov. 12-17), a co-presentation of New York Live Arts and…
A commissioned work for Performa 13, Rashid Johnson's production of Amiri Baraka's Dutchman at the Russian & Turkish Baths on East 10th Street in New York is a terrific idea, if imperfectly…
Curated by Jay Sanders, "Rituals of Rented Island: Object Theater, Loft Performance, and the New Psychodrama—Manhattan, 1970-1980" (Oct. 31, 2013-February 2014) presents the work of 20 artists from…
For the first time since its creation in 1977, L.A.-based artist Robert Irwin's sculptural installation Scrim veil-Black rectangle-Natural light, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York has been…
In contrast to Massimiliano Gioni's intentionally overwhelming "Encyclopedic Palace," the main exhibition at the Venice Biennale, it is something of a relief to turn to the more modest show "vice ve…