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Artworld Gift Guide for the Holidays

Art is more accessible than ever before in history. What's best is that everyone can now buy real art made by recognized contemporary masters for modest prices.

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Top 10 Art Events of the Last Decade

Looking back at the last decade crystallizes my belief that the best art does something more than interconnect with the events around it. It actually contributes to events that have yet to happen.

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Westway Ho! Stewart Home at Performa 11

Home is difficult to capture: A revolutionary bootboy trapped in the postmodern eighties, he issued an ostensible manifesto on Neoism, reinvented psychogeography, and proceeded to spin off so many...

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Still Small Voice of the City

Detroit has no venues like NYC's The Kitchen, and Performa never makes its way to Michigan. But perhaps the appearance of The Hinterlands at MOCAD marks an important milestone in our city's cultural...

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Trajal Harrell: The Next Martha Graham Has Arrived!

When you get right down to it, his cerebral, seductive art -- which years ago began to feature fashion runway movement and now includes acquainting his audience with the facets of Harlem voguing balls...

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Marc Arthur Is On Our Radar: Contemporary Artist Directs A Live Painting...

Anyone can tell you who's already made it, but HuffPost Arts & Culture's On Our Radar series is here to tell you who's about

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10 Must-Sees At This Year's Performa

It's not often that visitors to an art exhibition get to break bread or think about high fashion. But they will have the

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Video Art Pioneer Joan Jonas On Her Upcoming Performa Piece, YouTube, Cooking...

I love how you compare art and cooking. Can you expand upon that? Joan Jonas, dOCUMENTA 13, photo credit Maria Ruhling Jonas

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The Month Performance Art Took Over New York City

Mock United Nations meetings, plays enacted in sweaty bath houses, live performances based on the melting of glaciers. It's

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25 Questions For Possibly Bleeding Performa Artist Tameka Norris

What's your art-world pet peeve? What are your hobbies? Do you make a living off your art? Your Performa piece at the Studio

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Performa 13: Exploring the Surreal

This month, New York will once again become the center of the performance art world for twenty-four days of incredible programming, as Performa 13 makes its biennial appearance.

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Artist Agnieszka Kurant Resurrects The Phantoms Of Geography, Literature And...

This thread of phantom occurrences appears throughout Kurant's explorations, which range from cartography to film to politics

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Pedro Reyes Is Solving The World's Problems, One Art Performance At A Time

Oh yes. There is one sculpture [I brought to the museum], called "Disarm Clock," that is a mechanical clock that every half

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Voice Is the Original Instrument

I closed my eyes during the performance and my viewing plane was illuminated with a pas de deux between warm gem tones.

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Reflections on Eddie Peake's Performa 13 Commission

Essentially, Eddie was applying the formula of minimalist sculpture to performance art. Minimalist sculpture communicates

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Performa 13 Shingerview: Jennifer Wen Ma

Jennifer Wen Ma sat down with me to talk about her residency at Performa 13. "It's not a performance in the traditional sense of performance art. It is experiential art." Her residency, which spans...

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Performa 13 Shingerview: Ryan McNamara

I had the opportunity to talk to one of the "artists to watch" at Performa 13, Ryan McNamara. Ryan's MEƎM: A Story Ballet About the Internet is an immersive performance experience that explores...

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Performa 13 Shingerview: Molly Lowe

Performa artist Molly Lowe, whose experimental play takes place tonight and tomorrow, imagines a culture where humans have devolved into a tangle of fingers.

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Performa 13 Shingerview: Vishal Jugdeo

I had the opportunity to sit with Performa 13 artist, Vishal Jugdeo, who created a new video installation where live and pre-recorded footage from French Guiana and Los Angeles, unfolded...

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'The Dutchman' Solves The Biggest Problem With Immersive Theater

That's not to say people weren't drawn to "The Dutchman" because of its concept. The play enjoyed a sold-out run, despite

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