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…
Why do we make violent art – and what does it say about the artist?
The sensationalised media coverage of the recent suspected mushroom poisonings in regional Victoria expanded last week, to include children’s scribblings on a wall. The pictures, which comprised stick figures, rudimentary drawings and text that referenced death and dying, were removed…
