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YOU WONT BELIEVE: 2 - What They Never Told You

Five Great Reads: outback drovers, a recovering Christian, and Marina Abramović

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Claire Keenan

The Guardian - AU

‘Women give me babies to hold. I’m loved!’ Marina Abramović on art, ageing and being bigger than Trump

At 77, the godmother of performance art has a new show – and a range of longevity products. She talks about crystals, self-discipline and her hopes of making it to 100

The Guardian - UK

The big Glastonbury 2024 review: the Last Dinner Party justify the hype, Dua Lipa nails it and Coldplay go over the top

From K-poppers Seventeen to performance artist Marina Abramović, via Cyndi Lauper and Little Simz, it was one of the most diverse editions yet. But the real fireworks came with a band who have taken things to another level

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‘My knees are as strong as Megan Thee Stallion!’ What 20 celebrities learned at Glastonbury 2024

Cut your toenails, play bingo – and drink rum instead of lager. Performers including Marina Abramović, Sugababes, Don Letts and Paloma Faith share their tips

The Guardian - UK

‘Give unconditional love to each other’: artist Marina Abramović silences Glastonbury for seven minutes

Serbian performance artist tells Pyramid stage crowd to confront cyclical violence in thousands-strong ‘collaboration’

The Guardian - UK

Marina Abramović at Glastonbury: acclaimed artist to stage her largest-ever participatory work at Worthy Farm

The performance artist will take to the Pyramid Stage this evening for seven minutes of silence

Evening Standard

Can Marina Abramović get Glastonbury to be silent for seven minutes?

Serbian artist hopes Friday’s ‘public intervention’ will make festival goers reflect on the current state of the world

The Guardian - UK

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Rish! seems determined to achieve total humiliation. This isn’t politics, it’s art

Marina Abramović would flinch at the pain the prime minister is inflicting on himself in pursuit of his self-destructive project

The Guardian - UK

Marina Abramović on Australia, backlash and ‘the encounter that changed my life’

The acclaimed artist handpicked eight names for a showcase in Adelaide. One recently made headlines – and another was surprised to be chosen

The Guardian - AU

Nude artist sues New York’s Museum of Modern Art over sexual assault claims

John Bonafede claims he was groped seven times while performing naked in a Marina Abramović exhibition in 2010

The Guardian - UK

Marina Abramović selling moisturiser? I don’t know whether to laugh or cry

The pioneering performance artist is taking on Goop and flogging wellness potions concocted by her doctor. Let’s hope it’s an elaborate put-on

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Marcelino Sambé’s cultural highlights

The Royal Ballet principal dancer on his favourite performance art, a surprising black comedy, and a musical that made him question everything

The Guardian - UK

Marina Abramović releases a skincare and wellness range inspired by mindfulness

Artist Marina Abramović brings the principles of her Longevity Method to a new skincare and wellness collection developed with Dr Nonna Brenner

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Marina Abramović says she was ‘completely deprived’ of happiness during ‘violent’ childhood

The artist said her parents would ‘sleep with pistols next their bed’

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The Guardian - UK

Chandler Bing pyjamas, a Shrigley frisbee and Bowie’s scarf: it’s the arts Christmas gift guide 2023

A Bear apron, a Van Gogh vase, a reversible Frida Kahlo jacket, a Britney death metal T-shirt … here, curated by our arts team, are 30 fabulous festive suggestions for the culture vulture in your life

The Guardian - UK

‘They’ll see she was extraordinary’: Callas centenary inspires new generation to find the real Maria

Films, shows and a new museum seek to capture the charisma of the great soprano

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Jephtha; 7 Deaths of Maria Callas; Perfection, of a Kind: Britten vs Auden – review

Handel’s majestic final oratorio holds its own in Oliver Mears’s searching new production; Marina Abramović channels Maria Callas; and a well-told tale of when Britten met Auden

The Guardian - UK

I loved the Marina Abramović show – but the most shocking moment came in the giftshop

The work of the grandmother of performance art is intense, moving and baffling. Nonetheless, I wasn’t prepared for the wares on sale, writes Adrian Chiles

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7 Deaths of Maria Callas review – Marina Abramović dreams up a diva’s greatest hits

With murderous cameos from Willem Dafoe and live renditions of arias by a clutch of sopranos, the performance artist pays somewhat tame homage to the extraordinary singer

Evening Standard

Marina Abramović: 'Take care? No, have guts! Be warrior! Take risk! Fail!'

The world’s foremost performance artist is no stranger to an enraptured audience, but after cheating death it’s taking on new meaning for Marina Abramović, whose UK opera premiere raises the bar in a long, salient career. Richard Godwin meets her backstage

AAP

Global artists feature on 2024 Adelaide Festival bill

The first Adelaide Festival with new artistic director Ruth Mackenzie brings work from big name global artists to the city.

The Guardian - UK

Why is no one else worried about being sandwiched between naked people?

Germ warfare season is upon us. I, for one, don’t plan to get ill by squeezing past a pair of models at the Marina Abramović exhibition

The Guardian - UK

Intimacy with strangers: Marina Abramović puts the squeeze on

The artist’s Royal Academy retrospective revives her 1977 live work in which visitors pass through a naked couple in a doorway – and reveal something of themselves

The Conversation

Marina Abramović retrospective celebrates the grand dame of performance art – but questions the genre's future

In 1974, Marina Abramović performed a career-defining work at a small experimental gallery in Naples, Italy. The Serbian artist stood naked next to a table on which she had arranged 72 objects associated with pleasure and pain. They included a bunch of grapes, a jar of honey, a feather, a…

The Guardian - UK

Marina Abramović’s shocking Rhythm 0 performance shows why we still cannot trust people in power

In 1974, Marina Abramović dared an audience to use chains, lipstick and knives on her body – and their willingness to abuse her revealed frightening truths about misogyny

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