Marina Abramovic

The Propeller Group Take on the Art World's Celebrity Fixation

No country for poor men

This Terrifying Lady Gaga Video Will Make You Even Less Inclined To Donate To The Marina Abramovic Institute Kickstarter

Marina Abramovic is rolling out plans for her very own art institute in Hudson, NY and--sigh--she's using to Kickstarter to fund it.

THE OUTSIDERS

Solaris gets a 
marathon reading

BEST OF NYC™
The Too-Much City Arts Options? Why, Yes—We Have a Few.

PICTURES OF YOU

Looking back at Marina Abramovic’s staring contest

Class Action Listings

Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present: Ready for Her Close-Up

At MOMA, the artist examined us as individuals. A new doc does the same to her.

Summer Film Guide: Rooftop Films and Spaghetti Westerns

London's Big-Deal Art Fair Hits New York, Occupy Hits Back

Seize the frieze

Unconscious Un-mined: A Sleeping Beauty That Stays in the Dark

Marni Kotak, Artist, Will Give Birth at Microscope Gallery, for Real

Now that Facebook has decided to publish a timeline that includes all of our online goings-on since birth, we wonder what a tangible chronicle of this would look like. Enter the very pregnant performance artist Marni Kotak, who is transforming the Microscope Gallery into a home-birth center where sh ... More >>

Pippin Barr, Man Behind the Marina Abramovic Video Game, Weighs In On His Creation

​Last year, artist Marina Abramovic's "The Artist is Present" exhibit at MoMA became the biggest performance art exhibition in the museum's history. Abramovic sat in a chair for a total of 760 hours and 30 minutes over the course of a couple months and people were invited to stare at her, insp ... More >>

Erotic Art With a Happy Ending

At this all-male drawing studio, the models touch themselves—but the artists can't

Francis Alys Moves Dunes, Waves Gun, and Enjoys a Little Narco-Tourism

Enter sandman

REVOLUTIONARY THOUGHT

Consume hundreds of ideas in four days

Everyone Wants a (Leon) Ferrari

The veteran Argentinean artist enjoys an unexpected late popularity

The Best Art of 2010

Village Voice art critics pick their favorite shows of the year

The 10 Best NYC events of 2010

Paul Quitoriano​ Whenever we tell people what we do for a living we always get the same thing: "You must know what's going on in the city all the time," and "You must get invited to the best events." Well, yes and yes. But recommending events every freaking day of the year to you eccentric New ... More >>

Why You Can't Hate Kanye West and Love My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy At the Same Time

​Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy doesn't come out until next week, but the reviews are already in. (Summary: it's a masterpiece.) In these pages, Sean Fennessey wrote at some length about the way West's embattled public persona crashes, again and again, into the music on his new ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: October 27 through November 2

James Hyde, Richard Hughes, and the Artists of 'Homunculi' Are the Buoys of Summer

New York's neighborhood galleries battle the museum malaise

GIVE AND TAKE

You want more Tim Burton? Then help out.

MoMA Visitors Way Pervier than Museum of Sex Visitors

The Museum of Sex dissuades unwanted -- ahem -- advances.​ The MoMA's current Marina Ambramovic exhibit (featuring real, live nekkid people, OMG!!!) is attracting a lot of attention of the "that feels funny, and not funny ha-ha" variety. Lonely, lonely people who simply need to feel the warmth ... More >>

Why Does Tonight's It Came From Brooklyn at the Guggenheim Cost $40?

​Free Williamsburg has a thorough interview up today with the organizers of the Guggenheim's It Came From Brooklyn series, which begins tonight with a stellar bill: High Places, the Walkmen, and Colson Whitehead, with assists from the comedian Leo Allen and the Brooklyn Steppers Marching Band. ... More >>

Ponzi Titan R. Allen Stanford Meets the Art World: Chris Burden's Gold Frozen

New millennial performance artists Bernard Madoff and R. Allen Stanford long since one-upped the once-extreme antics of avant-pioneers like Marina Abramović or Chris Burden. Car-crucifixions and self-inflicted gunshot wounds can't hope but pale next to the sleight of hand that transmutates billio ... More >>

Five Women Artists Rushed Through Our City Dreams

Images on the Move For Dance on Camera 2008

Dancers on toe, hanging from hooks, blooming in deserts

The Icon's Icon

80+ Artists Do Up the Dalai Lama in a Double Group Show

Your Face or Mine?

Recommendations by R.C. Baker

The OK Corral

Leaving postmodernist and postminimalist strategies behind and breathing fresh air

Mind the Gap

Moving images at the Whitney reflect the art world's slow embrace of experimental film

Reality Show

The unpredictable happens when an artist blurs the distinction between the staged and the truth

Bessie Winners

Hunger Artist

The 12 Days of Marina Abramovic

Ready for Prime Time

X-treme Performance Art Moves From the Margin to the Mainstream

Double Vision

A Brief History of Outrage

The 51 (or So) Greatest Avant-Garde Moments