Marina Abramović
The best art and design shows to visit in 2023
Queer Renaissance sculptor Donatello, Marina Abramović, David Hockney and a long-delayed mega-museum in Manchester – your art-design to-do list for the year ahead
Adrian Searle, Jonathan Jones and Oliver Wainwright
27, Dec, 2022 @6:00 AM
Lucian Freud: New Perspectives; Marina Abramović: Gates and Portals – review
Lucian Freud’s dispassionate work speaks for itself in a liberating show without wall texts, while Marina Abramović pushes our critic to the brink
Laura Cumming
02, Oct, 2022 @12:00 PM
Marina Abramović’s Gates and Portals review – why surrender your liberty to these wafer-thin ideas?
The artist is not present in her latest show. Instead, visitors are shuffled about by volunteers trained in her Method, with a hint of Blair Witch ritual
Jonathan Jones
23, Sep, 2022 @3:00 PM
On my radar: Marina Abramović’s cultural highlights
The artist on an exhibition made by spiders, cryptocurrency activism and her love of astrology
Marina Abramović
16, Jul, 2022 @2:00 PM
Socks, squats and sex workers: The Woman in the Window review
This thoughtful exhibition shows how artists have utilised windows for more than just voyeuristic thrills. But it has a Vermeer-shaped hole
Hettie Judah
05, May, 2022 @3:59 PM
Marina Abramović: ‘I don’t want to have my life in control’
The performance artist is known for putting herself in challenging situations. Now, she says, it’s your turn, with a set of instruction cards aiming to ‘reboot your life’
Kadish Morris
12, Feb, 2022 @9:00 AM
Marina Abramović: ‘I think about dying every day’
The artist, 74, tells Joanna Moorhead about embracing mortality, her purely emotional art, spirituality and communism, and sex getting better after the menopause
Joanna Moorhead
25, Sep, 2021 @1:00 PM
Marina Abramović: ‘I’m an artist, not a satanist!’
The world’s most famous performance artist has spent almost 50 years facing down ridicule, death threats and conspiracy theories. Will the pandemic finally defeat her?
Emine Saner
07, Oct, 2020 @9:00 AM
The bittersweet story of Marina Abramović's epic walk on the Great Wall of China
In 1988 Abramović and Ulay trekked from opposite ends of the wall to meet in the middle – but this Herculean act of love and performance art was doomed from the start
David Bramwell
25, Apr, 2020 @6:00 AM
All alone online: Iggy Pop and Jeremy Irons lead mass Ancient Mariner reading
Streaming daily, Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s 2020 incarnation also features Marianne Faithfull and Tilda Swinton as readers, set against sound and fine art
Alison Flood
17, Apr, 2020 @11:01 PM
'A pioneer and provocateur': performance artist Ulay dies aged 76
The artist known for his pioneering and often dangerous work with Marina Abramović dies of cancer
Alex Needham
02, Mar, 2020 @1:27 PM
Palette cleansers: our photography, art and architecture picks for 2020
Warhol is revealed as a prophet, London goes down the rabbit hole and Don McCullin takes his masterworks to Merseyside
Adrian Searle, Jonathan Jones, Oliver Wainwright and Sean O’Hagan
02, Jan, 2020 @8:00 AM
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