It started with a marching band, led by a severe gray-suited woman with medals pinned to her breast. Following them upstairs, you were plunged into semi-darkness—first aware only of a huge space ...

Though she is nearing 80 years old, legendary performance artist Marina Abramović has no plans to slow down. In fact, this month she is set to premiere what she believes is her “most ambitious” ...

She’s sat in silence opposite spectators for more than 700 hours. She invited members of the public to do whatever they wanted to her body, using nails, matches and even a loaded gun. She laid down ...

The night before Japan elected Sanae Takaichi as its first female prime minister, Her Imperial Highness Princess Hitachi helped the Japan Art Association host its annual Praemium Imperiale ceremony in ...

The Serbian performance artist Marina Abramović, who, over the course of her career has pushed herself and her body to extremes, calls her latest work – Balkan Erotic Epic – her most ambitious yet.

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Marina Abramović is the self proclaimed ‘grandmother of performance art’. Her latest work, a reimagining of Slavic fertility rites, opened in Manchester earlier this week. Notorious for committing ...

The artists Peter Doig and Marina Abramović were honoured at a star-studded ceremony in Tokyo yesterday, celebrating them as the recipients of this year’s Praemium Imperiale Awards, known as the ...

Marina Abramović is the self proclaimed ‘grandmother of performance art’. Her latest work, a reimagining of Slavic fertility rites, opened in Manchester earlier this week. Show more Marina Abramović ...