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fromArtnet News
1 day ago

Performance Artist Crackhead Barney Moves From the Streets to the Stage: 'Art Should Be Going Insane'

Crackhead Barney is a performance artist known for her viral heckling of protestors and celebrities, significantly impacting NYC's political landscape.
Vue
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days ago

Pixels and paintings: video games return to the V&A

Live coding and interactive games create a unique blend of performance art and audience engagement at the Victoria & Albert Museum.
NYC LGBT
fromArtforum
4 days ago

Agosto Machado, Whose Shrines Immortalized a Lost NYC Underground, Is Dead

Agosto Machado, a performance artist and activist, died on March 21, known for his shrines honoring those lost to the AIDS crisis.
London music
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days ago

If I didn't have dwarfism, I'd probably be quite normcore': Midgitte Bardot on sex, drag and street harassment

Tamm Reynolds, a non-binary trans drag queen with dwarfism, is a unique performance artist known for their bold and provocative acts.
#fashion
fromKALTBLUT Magazine
4 days ago
Berlin

Blood Flower Bloom: A Stunning Exploration of Resilience and Beauty in the Heart of Winter - KALTBLUT Magazine

The film 'Blood Flower Bloom' showcases the intersection of performance, fashion, and visual storytelling in a winter landscape.
Berlin
fromKALTBLUT Magazine
4 days ago

Blood Flower Bloom: A Stunning Exploration of Resilience and Beauty in the Heart of Winter - KALTBLUT Magazine

The film 'Blood Flower Bloom' showcases the intersection of performance, fashion, and visual storytelling in a winter landscape.
NYC music
fromBrooklynVegan
6 days ago

Big Ears 2026 Day 1 & 2: David Byrne, Dirty Three, John Zorn, Tunde Adebimpe, Arthur Russell tribute more

Big Ears festival features highly anticipated performances even in early slots, attracting large audiences and offering diverse musical experiences throughout the day.
#anne-imhof
fromHyperallergic
1 week ago

Art Movements: A Canceled Biennale Show Finds a New Home

Gabrielle Goliath will independently present three new suites of her performance project Elegy, which mourns victims of Israel's genocide in Gaza, during the forthcoming 61st Venice Biennale after her eponymous proposal for the South African Pavilion was notoriously axed.
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fromHyperallergic
1 week ago

Remembering Calvin Tompkins, Rhoda Roberts, and Agosto Machado

Calvin Tomkins, a prominent art writer, passed away, leaving a legacy of influential profiles and contributions to contemporary art.
Arts
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

South African work banned from Venice Biennale to be shown outside main event

Gabrielle Goliath's performance art, Elegy, will be displayed at the Venice Biennale despite initial cancellation due to its tribute to a Palestinian poet.
#comedy
Humor
fromBerlin Art Link
1 week ago

Review of 'Finite Jest' at Sophiensaele | Berlin Art Link

Performance of sincerity in comedy can be more offensive than insincerity when confronting death.
Film
from48 hills
1 week ago

Here are the real best movies of 2025 - 48 hills

Peter Vack's www.RachelOrmont.com is a mind-melting film that critiques internet culture and is considered a masterpiece of the decade.
fromItsnicethat
2 weeks ago

Google Sheets as performance art: Liang-Jung Chen on painstakingly documenting the UK citizenship process

Using a similar, bespoke screen recording just for Nicer Tuesdays, Liang-Jung breaks down each part of the project, from every penny spent to the vlogs that inspired their self-surveillance as performance art.
Arts
fromFuncheap
2 weeks ago

Senor Babyhead

In one hour of drag, clown, and desperation, Señor Babyhead presents his Día de Muertos Especial. It's a journey across the Sonoran Desert in which Babyhead encounters artifacts, mirages, and spirits. Who is Señor Babyhead? Only Mexico's most (washed up) famous sitcom star, desperate to stay relevant and avoid becoming an artifact, himself.
SOMA, SF
Arts
fromBerlin Art Link
2 weeks ago

An Interview with William Joys | Berlin Art Link

Theater exposes hidden power dynamics through the body's presence, with artist William Joys exploring these relations through 'The Actress' character who transgresses social hierarchies and blurs distinctions between subject and object.
#flash-theater
Humor
fromFuncheap
2 weeks ago

Saturday Write Fever: Insta-Plays Written & Performed | SF

EXIT Theatre hosts free monthly flash theater events where writers create 30-minute monologues performed immediately by crowd-cast actors.
Humor
fromFuncheap
2 weeks ago

Saturday Write Fever: Insta-Plays Written & Performed | SF

EXIT Theatre hosts free monthly flash theater events where writers create 30-minute monologues performed immediately by crowd-cast actors.
fromBOOOOOOOM!
3 weeks ago

"Beyond the Gallop" by Photographer Philipp Treudt

"Beyond the Gallop" is a project that sheds light on an activity that exists at the intersection of sport, art, and community. Originating in Finland, hobby horsing has grown rapidly in recent years, particularly among young women. However, despite its popularity, participants are often misunderstood, with some facing ridicule and social stigma.
Photography
Miscellaneous
fromThe Nation
3 weeks ago

Tehching Hsieh-an "Artist Without Art"

Tehching Hsieh conducted yearlong endurance performances including solitary confinement, time-clock punching, street living, and tethering to another artist, establishing himself in New York's avant-garde art world.
fromArtforum
3 weeks ago

CARNAL KNOWLEDGE

Finally, all the consciousness I had left was in the center of my head. It was like a little light, and finally it went click. . . . And what I saw with this was my body lashed to the wall, about ten feet away.
Film
Arts
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

The smell wasn't healthy': the artist who wore 24 nappies to highlight sewage pollution and fell ill

Performance artist zack mennell uses their body and the Thames to confront societal issues including sewage pollution, benefit stigma, and shame through visceral live art.
Berlin music
fromwww.kaltblut-magazine.com
1 month ago

MYL BERLIN Fall/Winter 2026/27 Broken Enough?

MYL BERLIN becomes the sole German fashion house at London Fashion Week, streaming live from Berlin while championing radical inclusivity and decentralizing traditional fashion capitals.
Arts
fromArtnet News
1 month ago

How Tino Sehgal Turned a Street in Mexico Into a Living Artwork

Tino Sehgal's performance art transforms viewer perception through human interaction and collective experience, creating powerful moments that fundamentally change how audiences understand art.
SF music
fromFuncheap
1 month ago

V.V. Variety Show

The VV Variety Show on February 27, 2026 features Bay Area artists performing 15-minute acts in dance, comedy, music, and spoken word, with early bird tickets available at $3 off using code earlybird5 through February 22nd.
Brooklyn
fromTime Out New York
1 month ago

See exclusive photos from Petite Rouge, the sexy new fairy-tale pageant burlesque show now playing in Brooklyn

Company XIV's Petite Rouge transforms Little Red Riding Hood into an adult burlesque spectacle combining baroque dance, circus acts, and elaborate costumes.
Humor
fromVulture
1 month ago

'He Is Basically the Goop That's Inside a Lava Lamp'

Comedian Chris Fleming delivers hyperspecific, manic observational comedy wrapped in performance-art strangeness, creating absurdist humor through elaborate tangential narratives and surreal character dissections.
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Raw Material: The Art and Life of Susan Kleckner

Raw Material: The Art and Life of Susan Kleckner, on view at Haverford College's Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery through April 5, 2026, is the first comprehensive retrospective of the pioneering feminist artist, filmmaker, photographer, and performance artist. Bringing together nearly 100 works, many never before publicly exhibited, the exhibition seeks to reposition Kleckner as a foundational figure in feminist, queer, and activist art histories.
Arts
#site-specific-installation
Miscellaneous
fromVogue
1 month ago

Van Cleef & Arpels's Dance Reflections Festival Returns to New York With Postmodern Classics and Of-the-Moment Imports

Set and Reset, a 1983 collaboration between Robert Rauschenberg, Trisha Brown, and Laurie Anderson, exemplifies how three singular artistic minds create innovative theatrical work that combines visual art, dance, and music.
Music
fromAnOther
1 month ago

Solange: "Creating Felt Like a Means of Survival"

Solange embraces evolving Black identity, vulnerability, and artistic confidence while interrogating how hair, body, and image shape safety, meaning, and performance.
#art-market
#yoko-ono
fromPinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news
1 month ago

'It's for perverts who know death!': Josh Sharp on wild PowerPoint comedy show

It's his sort-of coming out story imbued with the trauma of losing his mother Amy to ovarian cancer, told via a 2000-slide PowerPoint presentation and finished off with a genuinely impressive magic trick (Sharp was a childhood magician). On the subject of finishing, it's an abundance of sordid sex tales that fill the gaps between Sharp's god-fearing childhood in America's south, and his mother's crushing death in 2010.
LGBT
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Not for ogling': forget Titian, Botticelli and the male fantasists only women can paint great female nudes

If you want to paint, put your clothes back on! That was how Carolee Schneemann summarised the critical response to her 1975 performance piece Interior Scroll, which she had performed nude standing on a gallery table. After making a series of life model poses, she removed a scroll from her vagina and began to read her manifesto. In doing so, Schneemann asked an important question: What does it mean for a female artist to be both the artist and the life model?
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fromArtnet News
1 month ago

Florentina Holzinger Joins Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

Florentina Holzinger's boundary-pushing performance practice joins Thaddaeus Ropac ahead of her Austrian Pavilion project "Seaworld Venice" at the Venice Biennale.
fromVulture
1 month ago

The Highs, Lows, and Whoas of the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony

Never to be mistaken for a "smaller" version of its summer cousin, the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics kicked off with a characteristically bombastic opening ceremony that featured, among other things, bobble-headed representations of Italian composers, a '90s-core DJ spinning on an ice block, supersized golden rings that couldn't help but evoke Sonic the Hedgehog, and an extended Sabrina Impacciatore-anchored sequence that started on a verrrry low note with a seemingly generative-AI-produced animation, and eventually ended on a veerrry high note with Impacciatore doing of a full-on clown routine. The whole spectrum of the human experience, indeed.
World news
Miscellaneous
fromVulture
1 month ago

The Best Olympic Sport Is the Opening Ceremony

Milano Cortina's Opening Ceremony prioritizes extravagant theatrical spectacle and performance over athletic competition.
Berlin
fromwww.kaltblut-magazine.com
1 month ago

RITUAL UNIONS Fall/Winter 2026 Re:birth

Ritual Unions presented an ethereal live couture performance blending post-bridal couture, ritual-inspired installation, and communal spectacle at Berlin Fashion Week RAUM.
#digital-culture
Film
fromThe Walrus
2 months ago

How Should We Live in These Wildly Uncertain Times? | The Walrus

David Blaine revitalizes magic through high-risk, astonishing performances that blend traditional sleight-of-hand with extreme endurance stunts, provoking awe and intense public fascination.
Miscellaneous
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 months ago

Marina Abramovic, artist: Now that I can afford to have bad reviews, I can't find any'

Balkan Erotic Epic fuses ancestral Balkan myths, fertility rituals, multimedia performance and audience participation to create a communal, visceral exploration of eroticism and nudity.
Arts
fromPortland Mercury
2 months ago

Art Snack: Portland Paczki Promises Unsurprisingly Vegan, Online Guide to Frog Brigade Building, Two Reopenings, and a BBQ

Portland Frog Brigade performed inflatable-frog protests, formed an LLC, created an online handbook for surreal nonviolent action, and gained honor from the Urban League.
Music
fromBrooklynVegan
2 months ago

Joseph Keckler shares eerie new song "Believer," playing Joe's Pub with Jesse Paris Smith

Joseph Keckler's new song 'Believer' showcases his gothy, Wagnerian, surreal style and wide vocal range over layered strings and voices.
Arts
fromArtnet News
2 months ago

Rapper Lexa Gates Accused of Mimicking Miles Greenberg Performance at Deitch Gallery | Artnet News

Lexa Gates staged a 10-hour spinning-wheel performance similar to Miles Greenberg's 24-hour conveyor-belt piece, prompting the gallery to apologize for an unauthorized derivative.
#diy
fromKqed
2 months ago
Music

Inside the Planetarium, Richmond's New All-Ages DIY Venue Where Anything Goes

fromKqed
2 months ago
Music

Inside the Planetarium, Richmond's New All-Ages DIY Venue Where Anything Goes

Arts
fromwww.amny.com
2 months ago

The reluctant Renaissance man: John Kelly's trauma-fueled art takes over Tribeca amNewYork

John Kelly created an epic 182-panel hand-illustrated graphic memoir and accompanying video and music exploring a near-fatal trapeze accident and hospital recovery.
Arts
fromPortland Mercury
2 months ago

Genderbomb's Impact Play: "If You're Offended, Tell Your Friends"

A trans ensemble's anthology blends participatory, visceral, kink-infused performance with explicit content and safety warnings that some audience members found insufficiently prominent.
fromPitchfork
2 months ago

Lexa Gates: I Am

The 24-year-old Queens rapper spent the 10 hours before her sixth LP dropped walking on a giant self-propelled wheel on view in a gallery in Lower Manhattan, staring ahead and staying quiet as the record played on a loop. The exhibit streamed live on Twitch; inside the gallery, fellow streamers and a smattering of real fans with signs and bouquets watched, too.
Music
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
2 months ago

Marina Abramovic rolls into Davos with an immersive project that encourages world leaders to take a digital detox

"Within the forum's mission, arts and culture play a vital role: they help ensure that progress is not defined solely by economic metrics or technological advances, but by our capacity to remain human, connected and reflective as we navigate an increasingly complex world," says Joseph Fowler, WEF's head of arts and culture. His programme is anchored around three guiding pillars, "Human Presence in the Digital Age", "Tradition and Innovation", and "Connection and Collaboration", Fowler adds. "Together they form a curatorial vision that pairs intellectual rigour with deeply immersive artistic experience."
Arts
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
2 months ago

Hannah Krafcik's 'Between Frames' culminates in a spiraling consideration of frame and time * Oregon ArtsWatch

Printed in both color and black and white, images of dancers and friends took the form of abstract portraits, movement series, and pseudo-stop-motion, featuring local artists including Sophia Ahmed, Muffie Delgado-Connelly, Kenny Frechette, Takahuro Yamamoto, Emily Jones, Allie Hankins, performances by Lu Yim, and others. Layered, dark, and moody self-portraits of Krafcik from 2025 also plastered a dark-painted wall opposite some of the other images.
Photography
Arts
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

Lotty Rosenfeld Weaponized the Line

Lotty Rosenfeld used repeated minor interventions—transforming traffic markings into crosses—to visibly tally state violence and destabilize authoritarian public space.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

A View From the Easel

A small, adaptable studio provides calm, supports varied artistic practices—drawing, performance preparation, archival work—and becomes a communal space for collaboration and care.
fromItsnicethat
2 months ago

Annie Atkins, Liang-Jung Chen and Derek Ridgers: Tickets now available for February's Nicer Tuesdays!

At next month's event, you can expect talks from Liang-Jung Chen, a London-based artist interested in material culture as they work across several mediums. After going viral with their UK indefinite leave to remain project, which was a thrilling piece of screen-recorded performance art within Microsoft Excel, Liang-Jung will be joining the stage to elaborate on how that project came about whilst introducing their versatile practice.
Photography
#durational-art
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago
Arts

He lived in a cage, jumped from a window and spent a year roped to a friend: is Tehching Hsieh the most extreme performance artist ever?

fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago
Arts

He lived in a cage, jumped from a window and spent a year roped to a friend: is Tehching Hsieh the most extreme performance artist ever?

Arts
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Joseph Beuys review the grotesque bathtub containing all the horrors of modern history

Joseph Beuys transformed wartime trauma and performative energy into provocative, animist sculptures like Bathtub that confront ecological and historical horrors.
fromKALTBLUT Magazine
2 months ago

Video Premiere: Molly Mogul - Run - KALTBLUT Magazine

Today marks a defining moment for the rising star, singer-songwriter, and performance artist Molly Mogul as she unveils her new single "Run," offering a tantalising taste of her forthcoming debut album set to drop this spring. This track serves as an invitation into a vibrant new chapter for the German artist, featuring an entrancing blend of pop, experimental soundscapes, and movement-based storytelling.
Music
Arts
fromCurbed
3 months ago

How Performa Turned New York Into a Stage

Performa stages site-specific performance art across New York, using unconventional venues and the city's architecture as integral frames for commissioned works.
#ceramics
#drag
fromHyperallergic
3 months ago

The Mayor Is Present

Hello, New York! Hope you all enjoyed those beautiful, peaceful couple hours of snow this weekend, before, well, you know the drill. (By the way, reporting businesses and landowners who haven't shoveled their sidewalks to 311 doesn't make you a narc - change my view). In art-related news, the Whitney Museum announced the 56 participants in its 2026 biennial, which includes some familiar names from New York institutions - Enzo Camacho and Ami Lien, CFGNY, and Samia Halaby among them.
Arts
fromThe New Yorker
3 months ago

Want to Talk to Zohran Mamdani? Get in Line

On Sunday, Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani invited members of the public to meet with him, one on one, for three minutes at a time, in a sparely appointed room at the Museum of the Moving Image, in Astoria. His transition team titled the twelve-hour event "The Mayor Is Listening," in homage to "The Artist Is Present," the iconic work of performance art by Marina Abramović.
New York Knicks
Arts
fromCurbed
3 months ago

Bianca Censori Made Some Medical Sex-Dungeon Furniture

Bianca Censori premiered Bio Pop in Seoul: furniture-like pieces constrain latex-clad bodies to probe domesticity, confinement, intimacy, and identity.
Arts
fromArtforum
4 months ago

Walking Around New York with Performa

A series of walking tours combined site-specific performance, historical memory, and embodied storytelling to trace vanished nightlife and connect to Performa's landmark works.
Philosophy
fromArtforum
4 months ago

Cassils

Collectivity emerges through recognition of difference and coexistence, exemplified by Cassils's Undersight using Morse-coded lights to expose censorship of "suspect" words.
Arts
fromARTnews.com
4 months ago

Performa Diary: A Year of Sexy Revolutionaries

Performa commissions enable artists to take high-budget performance risks that often become future works adopted by institutions, while audiences pay significant time and money.
fromHi-Fructose Magazine - The New Contemporary Art Magazine
4 months ago

Wally Dion Has Something On His Mind - Hi-Fructose Magazine

"The vinyl braids piece is my first quilt with these materials. I work with Rainbow Symphony in L.A. to get my prism film. When film arrives, it is thin and potentially brittle, so it needs the vinyl if it is going to be moving around and rolled up several times etc. The prism film is applied to a clear vinyl which is then sewn together
Arts
fromKALTBLUT Magazine
4 months ago

Queer Family Album: Volume 2 at Sophiensle - A Celebration of Non-Traditional Kinship - KALTBLUT Magazine

Berlin, prepare for a radical reimagining of family! The eagerly awaited Queer Family Album: Volume 2 is set to take over Sophiensæle this December, and it's an open invitation to all. This event calls on our trans, BIPoC, neurodivergent, disabled, introverted, refugee, elder, migrant, unconventional, outcast relatives and chosen families; everyone is warmly welcomed. When: 5th & 6th December 2025 | Doors Open: 19:30 | Program: 20:00 - 22:00 Where: Sophiensæle, Sophienstr. 18, 10178 Berlin Website @ queerfamilyalbum / @ sophiensaele
Berlin
fromKALTBLUT Magazine
4 months ago

Immerse Yourself in the Depths of Emotion: Jon Darc's "MORAST" - A Must-See Musical Ritual in Berlin - KALTBLUT Magazine

Get ready, Berlin! The city's vibrant art scene is about to experience an electrifying event that defies categorisation. Join the enigmatic Jon Darc as he unveils "MORAST," a captivating musical ritual that intertwines concert, confession, and ceremony in a breathtaking spectacle of sound and performance. On November 29 and 30, 2025, at Ballhaus Ost and WABE, prepare to be transported into a shadowy realm where the depths of desire are both explored and celebrated.
Berlin
#marina-abramovic
fromwww.npr.org
4 months ago

A guerrilla gardener installed a pop-up wetland in the LA River. Here's how and why

But when Doug Rosenberg came upon a shopping cart tipped over in the river's shallow waters back in 2020, he saw the potential to meet nature halfway. "It had begun to bloom some greenery around it, and there was a great blue heron perched on the cart, hunting in this little spot," Rosenberg recalled. "That was when it clicked for me that any 3D geometry at all in that river channel will trap sediment, will begin a micro-bloom of ecosystem."
Environment
Books
fromVulture
4 months ago

What Went Wrong With SantaCon?

Cacophony Society's anti-capitalist performance experiments, including Santa Rampage, morphed from disruptive creative play into chaotic, commercialized spectacles undermining original intent.
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

We never had much fun we were angry': Eve Libertine on life with anarcho-punk pioneers Crass

Recorded at one blistering London live show in April 2024, Libertine collaborated with Chilean guitarist Eva Leblanc, reimagining tracks from Libertine's back catalogue including ones from her time singing with 1970s anarcho-punk pioneers Crass. Produced by Crass founder Penny Rimbaud, it treads a path between performance art, experimental music and earth ritual; with her strident operatic tones, Libertine sounds like a soothsayer foretelling an apocalypse.
London music
Film
fromArtforum
4 months ago

Spectral Vision

Ghost 2568 uses spirit-possession metaphors and moving-image and performance works to transform Bangkok sites, probing migration, belonging, alienation, and spectral urban histories.
fromThe New Yorker
4 months ago

Tehching Hsieh Turned Every Second Into Art

The preferred currency of performance art is shock, or so the greatest hits tell us. Chris Burden had his arm blasted with a .22-calibre rifle. Vito Acconci masturbated under a wooden ramp and stalked people on the streets of New York City. Carolee Schneemann thrashed around in paint, raw meat, and dead fish, and pulled a scroll out of her vagina. Marina Abramović allowed gallery goers to abuse her for six hours.
Arts
Music
fromDocumentjournal
4 months ago

Moonlight and mayhem on Lafayette

A Hallow-Jean's séance at Jean's in Noho fused theatrical hosts, spellbinding DJs, Studio 54–inspired costumes, lush florals, and sponsored cocktails into a nightclub ritual.
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