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Improv performance artists are finding resonance in the fears, ideals and artistic expression evoked by the chaos of war in the early 20th century.
The artist says he chose an English civil war-era coin because ‘it is one of the few British things in the British Museum’.
MONA has demonstrated the art of thumbing its nose at a humourless male establishment.
The audience at opening night seemed appreciative and engaged in the story. Yet somehow I felt unsatisfied with various aspects.
Ruth Mackenzie’s Adelaide Festival of Arts has two heavyweights, performance artist Marina Abramović and avant-garde artist and musician Laurie Anderson.
Abramović’s foray into the wellness industry is not particularly surprising. As of 2024, she positions herself as an artist-life-coach.
This production by Western Australian interdisciplinary theatre makers Too Close to the Sun is an experiential encounter with the liminal space between life and death.
Art and science combine in this engineering course to let students turn their brainwaves into creative works.
Abramović is the first woman in the Royal Academy of Arts’ history to have a solo retrospective in its main galleries.
Archiving the Ephemeral, brings five works by performance artist Leisa Shelton together in a beautifully curated installation.
A straight cis-man could have made “herstory” as “America’s Next Drag Superstar.” Drag Race’s inclusion problem botches racialized queer histories, community discomfort and ally participation.
The protests paved the way for healing, vitality and a new vista of productive life.
When we see the high prices some are paying for NFT art, we must assume more performances, and potentially, acts of protest, could circulate as NFTs.
Some hard decisions need to be made if we are to get better value-for-money performing arts funding from central and local government.
From Fukushima to a stalkers visual diary, art can be confrontational whether it’s far away or uncomfortably close
When artist Maurizio Cattelan’s work Comedian sold for $120,000, the art world went bananas. Little did we know it wasn’t the end of the story.
Many Renaissance-era masterworks depicted rape and sexual assault as erotic. Beginning in the 1970s, artists worked to redefine rape as a crime of aggression and act of female subjugation.
Was it a marketing stunt or a critique of the market itself?
The film of Cave’s first tour since the death of his son is powerful and evocative.
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Senior Lecturer in contemporary art, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Art and Performance, Deakin University
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Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Creative Practice, University of Tasmania
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Hon Research Fellow in Poetry and Theatre studies, The University of Western Australia
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