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#performance-art

Today marks a defining moment for the rising star, singer-songwriter, and performance artist Molly Mogul as she unveils her new single "Run," offering a tantalising taste of her forthcoming debut album set to drop this spring. This track serves as an invitation into a vibrant new chapter for the German artist, featuring an entrancing blend of pop, experimental soundscapes, and movement-based storytelling.

On Sunday, Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani invited members of the public to meet with him, one on one, for three minutes at a time, in a sparely appointed room at the Museum of the Moving Image, in Astoria. His transition team titled the twelve-hour event "The Mayor Is Listening," in homage to "The Artist Is Present," the iconic work of performance art by Marina Abramović.

"The vinyl braids piece is my first quilt with these materials. I work with Rainbow Symphony in L.A. to get my prism film. When film arrives, it is thin and potentially brittle, so it needs the vinyl if it is going to be moving around and rolled up several times etc. The prism film is applied to a clear vinyl which is then sewn together

Berlin, prepare for a radical reimagining of family! The eagerly awaited Queer Family Album: Volume 2 is set to take over Sophiensæle this December, and it's an open invitation to all. This event calls on our trans, BIPoC, neurodivergent, disabled, introverted, refugee, elder, migrant, unconventional, outcast relatives and chosen families; everyone is warmly welcomed. When: 5th & 6th December 2025 | Doors Open: 19:30 | Program: 20:00 - 22:00 Where: Sophiensæle, Sophienstr. 18, 10178 Berlin Website @ queerfamilyalbum / @ sophiensaele

Get ready, Berlin! The city's vibrant art scene is about to experience an electrifying event that defies categorisation. Join the enigmatic Jon Darc as he unveils "MORAST," a captivating musical ritual that intertwines concert, confession, and ceremony in a breathtaking spectacle of sound and performance. On November 29 and 30, 2025, at Ballhaus Ost and WABE, prepare to be transported into a shadowy realm where the depths of desire are both explored and celebrated.

But when Doug Rosenberg came upon a shopping cart tipped over in the river's shallow waters back in 2020, he saw the potential to meet nature halfway. "It had begun to bloom some greenery around it, and there was a great blue heron perched on the cart, hunting in this little spot," Rosenberg recalled. "That was when it clicked for me that any 3D geometry at all in that river channel will trap sediment, will begin a micro-bloom of ecosystem."

Recorded at one blistering London live show in April 2024, Libertine collaborated with Chilean guitarist Eva Leblanc, reimagining tracks from Libertine's back catalogue including ones from her time singing with 1970s anarcho-punk pioneers Crass. Produced by Crass founder Penny Rimbaud, it treads a path between performance art, experimental music and earth ritual; with her strident operatic tones, Libertine sounds like a soothsayer foretelling an apocalypse.

The preferred currency of performance art is shock, or so the greatest hits tell us. Chris Burden had his arm blasted with a .22-calibre rifle. Vito Acconci masturbated under a wooden ramp and stalked people on the streets of New York City. Carolee Schneemann thrashed around in paint, raw meat, and dead fish, and pulled a scroll out of her vagina. Marina Abramović allowed gallery goers to abuse her for six hours.

Over the past two decades, the Japanese artist Aki Sasamoto has developed a unique performance/installation practice in which she produces installations of absurd sculptural devices-from haemorrhoid cushions to oversized fishing lures-that, in turn, serve as an object-based score and environment for improvised performances that combine humorous spoken narratives with physical actions and mark-making. The artist's first mid-career survey, Aki Sasamoto's Life Laboratory at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT), traces the evolution of this practice through a sharp combination of installations, documentation and live performances.

Monáe appeared on The Jennifer Hudson Showon October 29 dressed as the classic scary movie monster, Michael Myers Mike Myers's live-action Cat in the Hat from 2003. The costume is bone-chilling, from her Krampus-like fur, to the tail that creepily moves on its own, to the Kabuki-ghost makeup. This isn't a Cat in a Hat. This is a damn Babadook.

This year's Performa, New York's performance art biennial, is taking over spaces across the city for projects that, in many cases, will be the artists' first forays into live performance. The biennial's main slate of eight commissions includes projects by seven women-Aria Dean, Sylvie Fleury, Camille Henrot, Ayoung Kim, Lina Lapelytė, Tau Lewis and Diane Severin Nguyen-and a male-female duo, Pakui Hardware.

I REMEMBER BOB IN SCENES. In the 1970s I went to a lot of very long Bob Wilson performances, among them the legendary Deafman Glance (1970) and A Letter for Queen Victoria (1974). They lasted for hours; some were all night. I often watched from the top of the nosebleed balcony-sometimes wrapp­ed in a sleeping bag, the images onstage mixing with my dreams. Even now I'm not sure whether I dreamed something or saw it in a Bob Wilson performance.

"What is done is done, and what is yet to come is yet to come."

Stephen Fishwick paints the way some people breathewith instinct, rhythm, and an unspoken urgency to translate feeling into form. His work is born from movement rather than deliberation, a synthesis of music, color, and gesture that feels more like performance than process. What he captures is not a single moment, but the sensation of many moments collidingthe way sound becomes light, and emotion becomes visible.

"The starting point was to be adventurous," Performa founding director RoseLee Goldberg told Forbes.com.

The monumental green figure of Kermit the Frog is set to soon take flight above the stately facades of Place Vendôme as part of the Art Basel Paris Public Program. From October 20th to 26th, 2025, Alex Da Corte's artwork will occupy the sky, transforming the historic square into an unlikely stage for a scene of comic melancholy. Presented by Sadie Coles HQ, the project takes the form of an enormous helium-filled inflatable, a towering, 19.75-meter-long effigy of the beloved Muppet icon.

Ivo Dimchev, the provocative Bulgarian performance artist, choreographer, and musician, is celebrated as an "enfant terrible." His performances are an electrifying blend of physicality and genre-defying artistry, daringly delving into the complexities of sex, power, and desire. With a captivating mix of vocals, dramatic expressions, and striking staging, Dimchev pushes the limits of artistic expression, leaving audiences both dazzled and entranced.

"There's a certain kind of energy that could be produced by a performative idea of communication, and that's what I'm interested in," said the Academy Award-winning director of "12 Years a Slave." "I'm not the kind of person who stands for an hour reading from a piece of paper. I think the audience needs more, and I feel I need to give more.

The Other Art Fair, presented by Saatchi Art, returns to Artifact Events in Ravenswood, Chicago, from October 30 to November 2-and this edition is bursting with creative surprises. More than 115 independent artists will fill the venue with fresh artwork, playful installations, and interactive experiences that make art accessible, fun, and unforgettable. Whether you're discovering the fair for the first time or coming back for more, this fall is your chance to immerse yourself in Chicago's most vibrant art event.

A new exhibition brings together work from 17 leading photographers, set within the grandeur of Dalkeith Palace. It invites visitors to reflect on the enduring relationship between people, place and the natural world. Photographer and film-maker David Eustace will debut his first live performance work, Reserved, in which he directs six strangers in a seated, nude performance. PhotoDalkeith 2025: Nature and Nurture | Contemporary Scottish Photography Exhibition is at Dalkeith Palace, Scotland until 5 October 2025 (weekly, Fridays to Sundays)

Her choice? San Francisco designer Ken Fulk, whose style she described as louche with a little too much velvet. That style is on display at Saint Joseph's Arts Society, which Fulk founded in 2018, turning the former Romanesque church into a glamorous, massive art space south of Market. Looking around on September 12th, the opening night of La Pocha Nostra's The Other Art World, it seems that for Fulk, there is no such thing as too much velvet.

Toward the end of Tahni Holt and Emma Lutz-Higgins' Time-Based Art Festival performance Horizon, something clicked. Eurythmics' "Love is a Stranger" swelled from the warehouse speakers at Portland Institute for Contemporary Art as Holt scooted across the stage, hidden beneath a hollow sculpture of a boulder. (Imagine a rock crawling across the ground in slow-motion.) She tugged at a metallic space blanket, revealing Lutz-Higgins curled beneath.

The blaze destroyed nearly everything they owned and displaced them from their home with just a few belongings in a matter of several hours, Evans told Hyperallergic in a phone call from a hotel where she is currently living. "There's a lot of things that went wrong," Evans said. "It was not like the movies where it's very clear it's an emergency," she added, recalling how the building's smoke alarms had not even gone off when she and her neighbors cleared their homes.

After turning heads with his breakout presentation at NADA Miami last winter, Lee Moriarty is stepping back into the spotlight with Balance, his first solo exhibition. Opening September 27 at Night Gallery in Los Angeles and curated by Adam Abdalla, the show marks a striking debut that blurs the lines between performance art, wrestling culture, and personal identity. Through eight new works, Moriarty shifts focus away from the spectacle of the ring and toward the quieter, more vulnerable realities of the luchadores who inhabit it.

Since moving to New York City from Atlanta in 1990, she's accumulated some life experiences that most people only read about. Far from her previous life, where she was a teen model and taught young girls how to walk down runways in the '80s in a charm school, she graduated to a scene that wasn't even imaginable when she was on her high school track and tennis teams.

A Turkish angora cat peeks out from a wooden shelter at the Ankara Cat Protection, Survival and Promotion Centre at Ankara University. The veterinary faculty houses cats in safe conditions and helps them find new homes.

The live performance features a fusion of Sufi, folk, and pop music, showcasing a blend of South Asian cultural heritage through diverse artists from the region.