performance art

Anne Imhof’s DOOM at Park Avenue Armory.
DOOM Takes Over the Park Avenue Armory, With a Hint of Hope

DOOM: House of Hope is a three hour long performance by Anne Imhof at the Park Avenue Armory,…

A Love Worth Fighting For - Exhibition Image
Jamel Robinson’s Solo Exhibition on Grief and Survival

On view at the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling in Harlem, New York is A Love Worth Fighting For by artist Jamel Robinson. The…

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Storytelling Through Animation: A Conversation with ‘Flow’ Director

Sure, 2024's Inside Out 2 is the highest grossing animated film of all time ($1.7 billion worldwide), but the one to beat at this year's Oscars cost…

Frieze London 2024. Photo by Linda Nylind. Courtesy of Frieze and Linda Nylind.
The 10 Best Booths at Frieze London and Frieze Masters 2024

Returning to magnificent Regent’s Park in the heart of London, the 2024 editions of Frieze…

Brie Ruais: Bone Dice, September 5–October 12, 2024.
Brie Ruais’ Wall Sculptures Evoke the Cyclical Nature of Life

Movement-based sculptor Brie Ruais– whose work was featured…

British Museum - Court and Glass Dome, 2009
Performance Artist Steals, And Returns, A Coin From The British Museum

Brazilian conceptual artist, Ilê Sartuzi, recently introduced a new…

Marina Abramović, Four Crosses: The Evil (positive), 2019 (detail)
Marina Abramović: Challenging Art Through The Use of Her Body

Often referred to as “the grandmother of performance art,” Marina…

William Kentridge: In Praise of Shadows exhibition at The Broad, Los Angeles, November 12, 2022 – April 9, 2023.
In Conversation with William Kentridge

Fundamental to the art of William Kentridge is charcoal, a simple prehistoric medium that has long anchored his multi-disciplined, intellectually epic body of…

Another World is Possible, Ice Text projection, David Buckland.
These Extreme Artworks Embody the Climate Crisis
Headquartered in Dorset, England, Cape Farewell has been devoted to shifting perceptions about climate change since 2001, with founder and international director David Buckland at the helm. As…
Lygia Clark, Máscaras sensoriais, 1967. Wikiart. © Lygia Clark.
Neo-Concretism: the short-lived but influential art movement
The Brazilian poet, essayist, and art critic Ferreira Gullar is credited with writing the original Neo-Concrete Manifesto. It was also Gullar who first identified a need to react against the rigidity…
Laurence Philomène, Detail of Self-portrait with Apple Branches, 2019.
6 Art World Events for Pride 2022
As usual, a dynamic host of exhibitions spotlighting queer artists are available throughout the month and beyond. To help you cut through the noise, Art & Object has assembled this…
Carolee Schneemann, Trackings, 1973. 10th Annual Avant Garde Festival, Grand Central Terminal, New York.
Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics
This marks the first survey in the UK of the work of American artist and the first major exhibition since her death. The exhibition charts Schneemann's radical work around her own body, often…
"Loïe Fuller in La Danse Blanche" 1898 Courtesy Maryhill Museum of Art.
Loïe Fuller: Innovator on Stage from Paris to Pacific Northwest
Illinois-born dancer Loïe Fuller (1862-1928) took Paris by storm in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She was famous throughout both North America and Europe for her groundbreaking…
Brie Ruais: Some Things I Know About Being In A Body. December 9, 2021 - January 22, 2022. albertz benda, New York.
Brie Ruais: Inside her Process & Partnership with Clay
At 130 pounds, Brie Ruais is equal in weight and material substance to her collaborator: clay. Each work they embark on involves pulling out the partner’s guts and pushing them into a shape.
Lygia Page, Divisor, 1968. Performance at Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2020.
"Assembly Required" at Pulitzer Arts Foundation
The upcoming exhibition Assembly Required features eight artists who engage the public as co-producers of their artworks. Visitors are invited to build, use, and shape the works of art both…