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No man is an island

“The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.” _Allan Kaprow
When Allan Kaprow presented his first performance at New York’s Reuben Gallery in 1959, the conception for the first Happening was tightly scripted.
By IAN PAIGE | October 22, 2008

Wait, who is this?

Andrew Earles and Jeffrey Jensen shine the dim light of cultural obscurity on the prank phone call
Earles and Jensen’s calls, primarily perpetrated on unsuspecting denizens of Memphis and New York, are strange and wonderful specimens of telephonic performance art.
By MIKE MILIARD | July 16, 2008

Rhymes 'n' life

Rhodeshow is staying real
The Rhodeshow troupe lives the lyrics and rocks the mic with a nonchalant confidence and fluid, streetwise delivery without glorifying the negative choices surrounding young people.
By CHRIS CONTI | May 28, 2008

Home body

The Laurie Anderson world view
Laurie Anderson is the world’s pre-eminent performance artist — a musician, writer, and electronics and visual wizard.
By TED DROZDOWSKI | March 24, 2008

Totalitarian ploy defeated

Free speech trumps Boston cops
For performance artist Milan Kohout, freedom of speech has prevailed.
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE AND JAN WOLFE | March 12, 2008

The case of Milan Kohout

The right of a performance artist represents the rights of all Americans. Plus, an opportunity with Cuba.
Kohout, a serious man, was engaged in the serious business of political protest.
By EDITORIAL | February 21, 2008

Turn and face the strange

What would you do to find the perfect mate?
On Delia’s Web site, overly fast typist “Dptanimal” writes: “THE PERFECT WOMAM —– THE ONE YOU ARE IN LOVE WITH !!!”
By DEIRDRE FULTON | February 13, 2008

Mixed media

The Theater Project's Winter Cabaret puts TV on the boards
Purple splatter-paint graphics zoom over a flat-screen above the stage.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | January 30, 2008

Re-creational vehicle

‘Broken Home: 1997/2007,’ ‘Empires and Environments,’ and ‘Arp to Reinhardt’ at the Rose, ‘Selections ’08’ at Mass Art, and Liz Linder at Space 242
Gallery exhibitions organized by high-profile outside curators have become an art-season staple.
By RANDI HOPKINS | January 14, 2008

What Would Jesus Buy?

Shopocalypse flop
As much as Talen believes his shill, he’s a performance artist posing as a preacher, on a mission conceived with and funded by his producers.
By BRETT MICHEL | December 12, 2007

Serious business

Oscar Wilde, Richard Nixon, and Real-Life In Baghdad
Playwright and director Moisés Kaufman likes to say that Oscar Wilde was the first performance artist.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | September 19, 2007

Locomotion commotion

Trains at the DeCordova, the Kabakovs’ Utopia at Tufts
The DeCordova Museum’s “Trainscape: Installation Art for Model Railroads” is a great, wild, flawed 14-artist circus.
By GREG COOK | September 18, 2007

Illusion and bedrock

Invisible Wings, plus Henri Oguike and Bridgman/Packer at Jacob’s Pillow
Oguike, I think, makes movement like a mime artist.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL | August 27, 2007

When worlds collide

The Collision Collective at AXIOM, Stencils at NESAD, and Alice Neel on film
We humans are quick to anthropomorphize the non-human.
By RANDI HOPKINS | August 07, 2007

Cold comforts

Miranda July’s performance pieces
In photographs, indie wünderwaif Miranda July stares back at us with big, wet blue eyes, curls dangling about her face, lips glistening and parted just so.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN | July 10, 2007

Putting the ‘art’ in ‘fart’

‘Pull My Finger’ explores the dark vortex where comedy and poop jokes meet
Everybody poops.
By SHARON STEEL | July 06, 2007

Chemical imbalance

Velvet Revolver, Avalon, May 16, 2007
“We’re Velvet Revolver . . . and we still play motherfucking rock ’n’ roll!”
By JAMES PARKER | May 21, 2007

The rule: no rules

Detritus and Crenca's energetic collaboration
It’s been through generosity of spirit, not flagging creativity, that Umberto “Bert” Crenca has become less widely known as an artist than as an arts administrator.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | March 07, 2007

Absence and presence

‘Sensorium II’ at MIT, Francis Peabody at Harvard
“Sensorium I,” which was up at MIT’s List Center between October and December last year, was an ambitious mixed bag of what one critic aptly termed “circus art.”
By CHRISTOPHER MILLIS | March 07, 2007

The cult of the Mooninites

Letters to the Boston editor: February 16, 2007
Regarding Harvey Silverglate’s Web post “ The Artists Are Innocent ”: this was not performance art.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | February 14, 2007

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