Performance Artist

01/27/2017

link.artnet.com/click/8704684.14150/aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmFydG5ldC5jb20vYXJ0LXdvcmxkL3NoaWEtbGFiZW91Zi1hcnJlc3RlZC1kdXJpbmctbGl2ZXN0cmVhbWVkLXRydW1wLXByb3Rlc3QtODMyNzU3P3V0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj1hcnRuZXRuZXdzJnV0bV9zb3VyY2U9MDEyNjE3ZGFpbHkmdXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbA/55e5df1e3b35d02a5e8b9540B4c975195

Shia LaBeouf, who launched the livestreamed performance 'He Will Not Divide Us' last Friday, was arrested last night at the protest site.

09/13/2016

Hmmm...witchcraft as performance...

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-why-witchcraft-is-making-a-comeback-in-art?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=7610992-Editorial-09-13-16&utm_source=sailthru&utm_term=ArtsyTopStoriesWeeklyPersonalized

Strewn throughout fairytales and folklore, the popular figure of the witch is synonymous with magic, transgression, and wickedness, and is nearly always female. But the history of witches is not just a fairytale, but a history of gynocide—that is, the killing of girls and women—one that feminists ha...

09/13/2016

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-the-performance-pioneer-who-made-art-out-of-new-york-s-sanitation-system?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=7610992-Editorial-09-13-16&utm_source=sailthru&utm_term=ArtsyTopStoriesWeeklyPersonalized

Mierle Laderman Ukeles’s studio consumes three rooms of New York’s Department of Sanitation (DSNY) office near Wall Street. She is the organization’s official artist-in-residence, a position she created in 1977 with the blessing of Vito A. Turso, now deputy commissioner for public information and co...

09/09/2016

https://hammer.ucla.edu/in-real-life/

September 2016–January 2017 - an ambitious program of daytime performances and film screenings activates the Hammer Museum’s courtyard, annex, and Billy Wilder Theater.

06/23/2016

Question...Is this a copy or a homage?

https://news.artnet.com/people/milo-moire-jailed-in-london-525176?utm_campaign=artnetnews&utm_source=062316daily&utm_medium=email&utm_term=artnet%20News%20Daily%20Newsletter%20USE

Swiss performance artist Milo Moiré was recently arrested in London over a performance piece that found her inviting passersby to touch her body.

06/22/2016

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/christo-floating-piers-italy-523877?utm_campaign=artnetnews&utm_source=062216daily&utm_medium=email&utm_term=artnet%20News%20Daily%20Newsletter%20USE

See photos of Christo's incredible new public art project, "The Floating Piers," which allows visitors to walk between three islands on Italy's Lake Iseo.

06/21/2016

http://www.huckmagazine.com/perspectives/reportage-2/ana-tate/

Where is Ana Mendieta? Why was she not included?

05/12/2016

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-the-brooklyn-museum-is-transforming-the-way-we-think-about-african-art

The first gallery in which the Brooklyn Museum’s new exhibition “Disguise: Masks and Global African Art” unfolds is gray-toned, like an old photograph. Stunning masks from various African cultures, dating from the early 19th to late 20th centuries, stare inanimately at visitors from the walls, atop…

02/04/2016

http://cap.ucla.edu/calendar/details/pussy_riot

Members of Russian feminist punk protest group P***y Riot have risen to global visibility over the last several years Their provocative guerilla performances in unusual public locations center around ... More Info: http://cap.ucla.edu/calendar/details/pussy_riot

01/22/2016

http://bushwickdaily.com/2016/01/lisa-levy-naked-on-a-toilette-performance/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=facebook_page&utm_medium=Bushwick%20Daily&utm_content=Bushwick%20Artist%20Will%20Sit%20Naked%20on%20a%20Toilette%20for%202%20Days%20to%20Protest%20Bu****it%20in%20the%20Art%20World

Bushwick has seen plenty of bizarre nudity over the years–whether it’s burlesque, shows ar Bizarre, smallest dick contest, or an old-fashion strip club Pumps. But we haven’t seen an artist getting naked while sitting on a toilet in an attempt to make a public statement.

01/19/2016

http://extendedplay.thecivilians.org/warm-up-with-ps122s-red-hot-coil-11416/

01/14/2016

http://hellogiggles.com/guerrilla-girls-the-late-show-underrepresented-female-artists/

Feminist art collective Guerrilla Girls was founded in 1985 to fight discrimination in the art world. Time and time again, women and minority artists were underrepresented in the art community, with museums and prestigious galleries repeatedly choosing expensive, white-male-created art to adorn thei…