While the annual gathering known as APAP (Association of Performing Arts Presenters) is under way through the end of January, New York is awash in festivals—COIL, Under the Radar, American Realness…
"I, Bear," a week of performances at CANADA Gallery on the Lower East Side, is a musical series with video, or more precisely, a leisurely party with video and, eventually, some music. The performan…
With few exceptions, video art isn't a great profit center for galleries. Nonetheless, Art Basel Miami Beach showcased in a fair-sponsored section a collection of videos selected by David Gryn, dir…
The tenth edition of Art Basel Miami Beach was supposed to "reflect a shift toward expanded conceptual, performative and temporal gestures," according to a curatorial statement. But there was little…
But first: where else could you see not one, but two shows that imaginatively incorporated voguing into traditional theater? iona rozeal brown's exuberant, smoothly executed, Kabuki-inspired…
Shirin Neshat's 40-minute musical pageant OverRuled is a vast undertaking. With 39 actors and 5 extremely capable musicians onstage, the piece was constructed with the help of two playwrights, a…
Laurel Nakadate and James Franco's Three Performances in Search of Tennessee was a semi-rehearsed, semi-conceptual piece of theater that invoked the spirit of Tennessee Williams and used two parts…
On Saturday Gerard Byrne staged his one-night Performa 11 work "In Repertory" under the stage of the Abrons Arts Center, in a dank, low-ceilinged rehearsal studio. Without any introduction, a variet…
Frances Stark's "Put a Song in Your Thing," a one-night-only performance on Nov. 4 at the Abrons Arts Center, combined many disparate elements without synthesizing them.
Performa 11 started Nov. 1, 2011 by staging a play, a reworking of Samuel Beckett's Happy Days by collaborators Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset at NYU's Skirball Center. Joseph Fiennes and…