The Moscow Times reports that performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky has been released from prison seven months after setting fire to the Federal Security Service building as part of his piece…
The Associated Press reports that dissident Russian performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky was convicted today in Moscow of vandalism during a pro-Ukraine protest. Though he was sentenced to…
Artists have long gotten away with murder, sometimes literally. After Benvenuto Cellini killed his rival, the goldsmith Pompeo de Capitaneis, in 1534, Pope Paul III—a Cellini…
Artists' fiercely outrageous, often politically charged public actions galvanized the Russian cultural scene in the 1990s. Today, organizations like the private V-A-C Foundation seek to alter the urba…
Pyotr Pavlensky, who was previously best known as the Russian performance artist who nailed his scrotum to the street in Red Square to protest the police, has found a way to outdo himself: as…