Posts Tagged ‘performance art’

Arts Roundup: Misplaced Power Edition

Morning, all. Happy Thursday to you!
Does the concept of performance art ever befuddle you? Me too. Marina Abramović, the self-proclaimed "grandmother of performance art" who's about to have a retrospective of her work at MOMA, sheds some light on the subject. She says that to be a performance artist, one has to hate theater, because [...]

Pooneh Maghazehe: Try the Art, It’s Delicious

Most galleries serve wine and cheese, but this weekend, there's beef in the Fridge (These blog posts just write themselves!). Artist Pooneh Maghazehe, of the new exhibit "I RAN Home (in America)," will be hosting Bastani and Branding Night, a performance piece in which she comments on consumption and her Iranian heritage by branding grilled [...]