Today, Performa announced a new partnership with the Paris-based arts organization Lafayette Anticipation, Fondation Galeries Lafayette, which will begin with Performa’s 2015 biennial this
Today Performa announced another batch of premieres and commissions today for its upcoming, three-week performance festival, Performa 15, which will take place in various locations around New
Polish artist Pawel Althamer, who in April closed his exuberant, expansive installation, performance, and sculpture show at the New Museum, to which museum visitors were invited…
Best optical illusion, best cat, and other highlights that linger in the mind and the brain after five days of fair-going
Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson is the winner of the inaugural Malcolm Award, which was presented last night, at the closing celebration of Performa 11. Named for British impresario and Sex…
A wave of exhibitions shows how the open-ended, experimental, hardscrabble, less cynical esthetic of the '70s is appealing to artists and curators
Performa, New York's performance art biennial, has announced additional plans for its fourth edition in November, Performa 11. Simon Fujiwara, Frances Stark, Ming Wong and the team Mika Rottenberg a…
"We are talking big; we are talking enormous," Marina Abramovic gushed (in her signature monotone) at a private announcement on Friday in Venice, describing the size (140,000 square meters) of the fut…
RoseLee Goldberg founded PERFORMA in 2004, and this fall the fourth edition of her critically acclaimed, inclusive biennial will open in New York. On Wednesday evening, I joined the tireless art histo…
There's something wonderfully cynical about Jennifer Rubell's food performances, in which food occupying its most honest state. In her large food piles, the interest in sheer tonnage recalls slopping…