Karen Finley

Outrageousness: Now Too Big to Fail

Shock and duh.

Live: Pussy Riot's Cause Is Celebrated At The Ace Hotel

The dungeon-black walls of the hip Ace Hotel's underground room, appropriately called Liberty Hall, are relieved by vintage speakers stacked floor-to-ceiling like a rock wall. The decorative recycling of defunct gear, lit with candles like a sanctuary, made a righteous backdrop for a reading of lett ... More >>

Free Pussy Riot Public Reading

FINLEY WITH A Z

It's up to you, Liza Minnelli

Karen Finley

Peaches Christ, Superstar

​Get down on your knees, heathen. Peaches Christ is coming to NYC with a movie called All About Evil and a traveling road show to boot, and if you don't show up, you will go directly to hell on a crucifix made of fruit cocktail. Peaches has something to do with one Joshua Grannell, who expla ... More >>

FEMINIST AT 40

This party is Precious

FIRST STYLE

From Jackie O. to Jacko

Fall Guide: Female Playwrights Look to Big Fall Season

This Year's Under the Radar Festival Gets the Solo Bug

OH, FREEDOM

See what democracy looks like

LIZA = NEW YORK

And Karen Finley will tell you why

Conceptualist Lawrence Weiner's Whitney Retrospective

Reveals the limitations of a vaunted conceptualist

The Big Clean-Up

Has performance art lost its edge? Is that a bad thing? A visit to Performa 07.

The Big Sleep

In Wake Up!, Karen Finley channels Laura Bush and Terri Schiavo

The Biggest Picture

A group show takes a trip through grand visions and imaginary universes

Lust Horizons

The 'Voice' and the women's movement

We Got the Beat: On the L.E.S., the Spirit of Ginsberg Lives

Not Your Chick

Before riot grrrls were born, libbers mocked rock's males

Get the Word Out: All-Star Reading Celebrates Generosity

Sex-Date Surprise

An adventure with masturbation maven Betty Dodson's boyfriend

Stringing Us Along

Lowe's episodic narrative is a light entertainment smart enough to be light on its feet

Finley Toons Up

What George Bush truly deserves: Karen Finley's vision of his sex life with Martha Stewart

Bush Begone

Anti-RNC parties bring back lewdness, courtesy of the First Amendment

Moonlighting

James Iha and John Cameron Mitchell take a break from the daily grind

Theater

It Was 25 Years Ago Today

Selections from the Village Voice's annual Queer Issue

Writers' Bloc

A fearless new generation of Off-Broadway playwrights establishes downtown beachheads

Telling Tales Out of School

Commemorating P.S. 122's 25-year history of stretching the bounds of contemporary performance

Body Heat

Vito de Milo: A pioneer of body art shows enduringly radical work from the '60s and '70s

Grinning and Baring It

The Crimes of Courtney Love

Independents Day: Celebrate it with a Salute to City Lights

NY Mirror

You Call This a Town?

Finley's 9-11 Liza; Jordan's Search for Normalcy

The Working Through

Karen Finley Teaches a Class on Dealing With 9-11

Honey, I Blew Up the Theater

David White Secures Dance Theater Workshop's Piece of the Rock, and Expands Its Programs.

Dada's Mama

The Unimportance of Being Earnest

He Delivers!

A Straight Woman Looks at Gay Male Porn

Glazed and Confused

I Yam What I Yam

The Karen Finley Makeover

A Persecuted Performance Artist Gets Past Her Suffering

In Square Circle

Performance Artists Put Up Their Dukes

Firecracker Alternative Book Awards

Sex with Dad

No Sex Please, We're Artistic

A group show in Connecticut gets a G rating.

Document Zippo

A Brief History of Outrage

The 51 (or So) Greatest Avant-Garde Moments

Bowing Out

Should American Actors Flee a Muddled, Unrewarding Profession?

Trial by Fire