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'The Spirits Of Maritime Crossing 2026' brings diversity to the Venice Biennale

'The Spirits Of Maritime Crossing 2026", which features 20 artists from Southeast Asia, Serbia and Ireland, is currently on view as one of the Collateral Events of the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia at Palazzo Rocca Contarini Corfù, Venice.

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Fighters, legends and beloved indie bands: What to see, do or hear this week in Europe

Marina Abramović marks her upcoming 80th birthday with a new exhibition in Venice, 2000's band Broken Social Scene return, and Mortal Kombat II brings arcade fun to the big screen. Here's what to look out for this week.

Euronews

Gustavo Dudamel's tenure as New York Philharmonic music director opens at Radio City Music Hall

Gustavo Dudamel starts a new era as music director of the New York Philharmonic in September, and he wants it to feel bold and modern

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Monsoons, mould … and a million visitors: welcome to Kerala’s ‘people’s biennale’

Work by almost 70 artists – including Marina Abramović – has made an art fair in Kochi one of the hottest tickets in south Asia. This sixth instalment uses farmers’ fields and patched-up buildings to take visitors ‘back to nature’

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He lived in a cage, jumped from a window and spent a year roped to a friend: is Tehching Hsieh the most extreme performance artist ever?

He has broken his ankles, endured 365 days in a cell and faced down the 20th century’s worst winter. Yet he says he is not a masochist. We meet the man Marina Abramovich calls ‘the master’

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A Traitors cloak, Britpop Trumps and a very arty swearbox: it’s the 2025 Culture Christmas gift guide!

Put some artful oomph into your festive season with our bumper guide, featuring everything from a satanic South Park shirt to Marina Abramović’s penis salt and pepper pots

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Can art enhance your life? Here’s what I learned from Ali Smith, Tracey Emin, Claudia Winkleman and more

In our always online, AI-imperilled lives, simply looking at a painting can improve wellbeing and offer creative guidance. For my new book, artists and writers shared their advice on how to live life artfully

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Heed warnings from Wolmar on robotaxis

Brief letters: Driverless cabs | Able-bodied and disabled | George, Stourbridge’s station cat | Marina Abramović show | Nominative determinism

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I went to Marina Abramović’s erotic, explicit new art show – and there was an awful lot to take in

The ‘grandmother of performance art’ and I both have Slavic roots. But I didn’t recognise any of her 14th-century Dalmatian fertility rites – and neither did my mum, writes Adrian Chiles

The Guardian - UK

Marina Abramović: Balkan Erotic Epic review – a thrilling collision of ecstasy and grief

Resisting simple titillation, this sprawling four-hour odyssey through often naked rituals has weddings, funerals and eye-popping love potions

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Marina Abramović on heartbreak, happiness and her 'craziest' project yet

Marina Abramović, the grand dame of performance art, on sex, death, the problem with marriage — and why her new show is ‘the craziest thing I’ve ever done in my entire life’

Evening Standard

Sex, skeletons and rituals: A look inside Marina Abramović’s 'Balkan Erotic Epic'

Marina Abramović turns 80 next year, and the world’s most influential performance artist is not slowing down. She brings sex, ritual, and the supernatural to the UK, in a provocative reenactment of Balkan erotic rites. 'Balkan Erotic Epic' starts in Manchester on Thursday.

Euronews

Marina Abramović: ‘I am going to be attacked by every tabloid in this country’

THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: No one has done more to bring performance art into the mainstream. Ahead of her largest, most ambitious show to date, an erotic spectacle tapping into her Balkan heritage, the artist speaks with Annabel Nugent about creating art from the soul, the headline that got under her…

The Independent UK

Gilbert & George, the wonders of ancient Egypt and Marina Abramović’s erotic epic – the week in art

Britain’s favourite contrarian duo depict the past 25 years, ancient Egypt showcases its incredible artists and the great performance artist stages skeleton orgies

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Breast-kneaders, skeleton orgies and five-metre-high penises: Marina Abramović on her most daring show ever

The great performance artist reveals all about her new four-hour Balkan Erotic Epic – a wild reinvention of ancient rituals that is sure to shock, move and amuse audiences

Euronews

Serbian performance artist Marina Abramović among winners of Japan's Praemium Imperiale award

The Serbian performance artist Marina Abramović and the painter Peter Doig are among the laureates for this year's Praemium Imperiale, the prestigious Japanese award also known as the 'Nobel of the Arts'.

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Gilbert and George go to hell and back while Marina Abramović sexes up Manchester – the week in art

Provocations from the original living sculptures, and 70 performance artists prepare to re-enact ancient sexual rituals – all in your weekly dispatch

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Manchester to host world premiere of Marina Abramović’s Balkan Erotic Epic

Show re-enacting ancient and unashamedly sexual rituals is most ambitious to date, says artist

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‘It is trance-like’: pianist Igor Levit performs Erik Satie’s Vexations 840 times

The 16-hour performance, a collaboration with the artist Marina Abramović, began at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall on Thursday morning

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‘He will not leave the stage. Ever’: Marina Abramović and Igor Levit on their marathon 16-hour concert

Why is the great performance artist making pianist Levit play a Satie piece 840 times? And does he really have a screen to go behind should nature call? We enter another level of time and consciousness

The Guardian - UK

I am a tweakment holdout. When will wrinkles, bad teeth and big pores be back in fashion?

Celebrities are now injecting salmon sperm into their faces, while gen Z buys into ‘prejuvenation’. But I’m hopeful the tide may soon turn, writes Emma Beddington

The Guardian - UK

Shot through the heart: when it comes to expressing love, only art can do it justice

Whether it’s heartbreak or joy, an endless embrace or a tragic break up, artists have long been grappling with our deepest emotion

Evening Standard

How the capital's art world went broke on woke

Lectures on social issues instead of just amazing art: no wonder London’s major galleries are in crisis, says JJ Charlesworth

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Switzerland’s best art exhibitions to see in 2025

Art fans, here’s your bucket list of the standout exhibitions to see in Switzerland in 2025, exploring compelling themes and diverse media

The Guardian - UK

‘We will glorify war – and scorn for women’: Marinetti, the futurist Mussolini sidekick who outdid Elon Musk

He was the brilliant yet alarming writer of the Futurist Manifesto, a bohemian poet jailed with Mussolini who helped forge the modern world. As a new show re-examines his troubling legacy, we explore the Italian troublemaker’s extraordinary life

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