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Uplifting Yoko Ono Banners Made in Response to Pandemic to Appear on Met Facade

The work offers a message of hope to visitors on the occasion of the museum's reopening.

• By
  Claire Selvin
• Aug 19, 2020 5:43 pm

• Features

Critical Eye: Art in the Age of Sexual Disruption

The clash between entrenched patriarchal attitudes and the newly awakened #MeToo consciousness found some striking counterparts in New York exhibitions such as "The Un-Heroic Act: Representations of…

• By
  Eleanor Heartney
• Jan 1, 2019 9:50 am

• Reviews

Happy Days: A Tightly Curated Prospect.4 Offers a Welcome Dose of Optimism

Various venues, New Orleans, through February 25

• By
  Lauren Ross
• Feb 23, 2018 12:04 pm

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Performa Kicks Off with Gala Honoring Yoko Ono, Featuring Dadaist Salad and Cathartic Screaming

The performance biennial in New York will continue through November 19.

• By
  Nate Freeman
• Nov 2, 2017 2:47 pm

• Reviews

“Action!”

Artists have historically used action as a medium to create fleeting and expressive works, to disrupt typical social behaviors, and as a direct form of protest. 

• By
  Aoife Rosenmeyer
• Sep 26, 2017 3:34 pm

• News

Yoko Ono to Reissue 11 LPs, Including ‘Plastic Ono Band’

Rolling Stone reports that Yoko Ono will reissue 11 albums, three of which are due out November 11. Among the records that will get a re-release this year is Plastic Ono Band, the 1970 album that…

• By
  Alex Greenberger
• Sep 7, 2016 11:09 am

• Features

The Sight of Her

Charlotte Moorman, long known as the “Topless Cellist” of 1960s-’70s performance art, is finally receiving critical and curatorial recognition for her accomplishments as a musician, performer, cultura…

• By
  Drew Daniel
• Mar 24, 2016 1:48 pm

• News

9 Art Events to Attend in New York City This Week

A guide to the next seven days

• By
  The Editors of ARTnews
• Dec 7, 2015 11:04 am

• News

‘…But We Can’t Pay You’: Performance Art and Money’s Knotty Relationship

A year ago, in a former bank in Brooklyn, RoseLee Goldberg hosted a postmodern fundraiser featuring a "special food performance" by artist Jennifer Rubell. The event was to celebrate the tenth…

• By
  Hannah Ghorashi
• Oct 29, 2015 9:30 am

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Shigeko Kubota, a Fluxus Artist and a Pioneer of Video Art, Dies at 77

Shigeko Kubota, a pioneer of video art and a well-connected Fluxus artist known for using her body to ponder time and space, died from cancer in Manhattan on Thursday at age 77. Today, Kubota, born…

• By
  Alex Greenberger
• Jul 28, 2015 2:00 pm