Performance

This opera wants to know whether memory is scientific or occult. It answers the question by rejecting it.

The late Brazilian artist’s retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, is a delicate exploration of his multi-faceted practice

From the effects of the economic crisis on art to the power of public participation and the most innovative non-profit spaces across the city

The RU.in.ART commission at Frieze Los Angeles channels the history of Californian performance into a celebration of the present moment 

In world first, the artist plans to harness the power of ‘Magic Leap One’ technology, and is encouraging others to join her

‘I held (and hold) his ideas and ethics like a compass’

In a recent performance at Kunstmuseum Basel, the artist demonstrates an impressive control of hysteria and hesitancy

Partnership between Frieze and Singapore Tourism Board brings a free, public discussion to Singapore Art Week 2019

Major new volumes by curators RoseLee Goldberg and Catherine Wood document contemporary art’s most rambunctious medium

I cut my skin to liberate the splinter evokes the dissonance and precarity of post-apartheid South Africa

Featuring a proposal for a circular motorway around a mountain peak, the ‘weird and absurd’ work of the Russia-based artist

Frieze Music artist Anaïs on her performance philosophy

The man hit the legendary performance artist over the head with his portrait at an exhibition opening in Florence

The latest art world silliness: Deborah de Robertis charged with ‘sexual exhibitionism’; Beckham’s painting debut; was the Mona Lisa sick?

At the National Theatre of Wales, a performance alive with wild, tactile descriptions compels comparison between the eczema-sufferer and writer

Commemorating the 100th anniversary of WWI, The Head & The Load at Tate Modern makes incomprehension the work’s guiding theme

With work in the Liverpool Biennial and ICA Philadelphia, the Seoul-based artist reanimates an ancient Korean musical system

Nods to the game in World Cup celebrations show how dance has gone viral – but unwittingly instrumentalized for commercial interests

At Kunstverein Düsseldorf (and on WeChat), the artist creates personalised horoscopes for a kaleidoscopic array of characters

Watching Sharon Hayes and Evan Ifekoya pay homage to the late artist at Camden Arts Centre and remembering his ‘structured anarchy’