Performance art
Artwork created through actions of an artist or other participants
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| 2025 | Jewel Rodgers was named Nebraska State Poet. |
| 2024 |
Cuban Performance Art
Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo presented a solo performance at Vienna's Secession building, incorporating Artificial Intelligence generated images.
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| 2024 | Dave Chappelle, Rikki Hughes, Stan Lathan, and Sina Sadighi were nominated for Producers Guild of America Outstanding Producer of Variety, Sketch, Standup & Talk Television |
| 2024 | Dave Chappelle and team were nominated for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Special |
| 2024 | Stan Lathan was nominated for Primetime Emmy Award for Directing for a Variety Special |
| 2024 | Stan Lathan was nominated for Directors Guild of America Outstanding Directing in Variety Specials |
| 2022 | Began portraying Daniel Molloy in the TV series 'Interview with the Vampire', fulfilling his long-time desire to be part of a vampire-themed production. |
| June 2022 | The Austrian museum and culture centre OÖLKG/OK presented 'The Non-fungible Body?', a discursive festival exploring recent developments in institutionalizing performance art. |
| October 14 2021 |
Love Is in the Bin
The artwork 'Love Is in the Bin' was resold at Sotheby's for a record £18,582,000, significantly higher than its original auction price and guide price.
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| 2020 | Cindy Sherman was awarded the Wolf Prize in Arts, recognizing her significant contributions to contemporary art. |
| December 12 2019 | Peruvian interpretation of 'A Rapist in Your Path' performed in Lima, further spreading the performance's international impact. |
| November 27 2019 | Mexican interpretation of 'A Rapist in Your Path' performed in Oaxaca, extending the performance's global reach. |
| November 25 2019 | Lastesis performs 'A Rapist in Your Path' with 2000 Chilean women during the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, with the performance becoming viral on social media and spreading globally. |
| November 18 2019 | The feminist collective Lastesis first performs 'A Rapist in Your Path' in front of the Second Police Station of the Carabineros de Chile in Valparaíso, as part of the 2019–2020 Chilean protests. |
| March 2019 |
Love Is in the Bin
The artwork 'Love Is in the Bin' was placed on permanent loan to the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart.
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| October 11 2018 |
Love Is in the Bin
After negotiations, the sale of the partially shredded artwork was confirmed at the full original price, with Pest Control officially renaming the piece from 'Girl with Balloon' to 'Love Is in the Bin'.
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| October 5 2018 |
Love Is in the Bin
Sotheby's London auctioned 'Girl with Balloon' for £1,042,000, with the artwork dramatically self-shredding immediately after the sale, transforming into 'Love Is in the Bin' through an unexpected art performance by Banksy.
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| October 2017 | Petr Pavlensky was arrested again for setting fire to a branch office of the Bank of France, spraying the entrance and interior with gasoline and igniting it with a lighter. |
| 2016 |
Cuban Performance Art
Consuelo Castañeda returned to Cuba after living in Mexico City and Miami from the 1990s to the 2000s.
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| 2016 |
Cuban Performance Art
Ensemble Without Organs exhibition at the Wifredo Lam Centre for Contemporary Art in Havana featured performance artworks from over twenty international artists, including seven Cuban artists: Ana Mendieta, Carlos Martiel, Grupo Enema, Héctor Remedios, Leandro Soto Ortiz, Manuel Mendive, and Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo.
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| 2016 | Began filming the 100monologues.com series with Travis Bogosian and Good Baby Films. |
| 2016 | Abel Azcona was denounced for his exhibition 'Natura Morta', which recreated situations of violence, historical memory, and conflict through performance and hyperrealistic sculptures. |
| 2016 | Continuation of 'The Nine Confinements' performance art piece exploring themes of illegitimate deprivation of freedom. |
| 2016 | Abel Azcona was denounced by the Archbishopric of Pamplona and Tudela for desecration, blasphemy, and hate crimes related to his work 'Amen or The Pederasty'. |
| 2015 | Published 'Operation Nemesis: The Secret Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide' with Little, Brown. |
| December 2015 | Tania Bruguera was detained for organizing a public performance in the Plaza de la Revolución in La Habana, as part of the 'Yo También Exijo' campaign. |
| November 2015 | Petr Pavlensky was arrested for a radical performance art piece where he set fire to the entrance of the Lubyanka Building, headquarters of the Federal Security Service of Russia. |
| May 2015 | Sulkowicz continues her mattress performance until her graduation ceremony, maintaining her protest against sexual violence and university mishandling of her rape report. |
| May 19 2015 | Sulkowicz carries her mattress during her graduation ceremony at Columbia University, completing her performance art piece that lasted an entire semester. |
| December 2014 | Tania Bruguera was detained in La Habana to prevent her from carrying out reivindicative performance works. |
| December 14 2014 | Sulkowicz discusses her 'Mattress Performance' with New York Times art critic Roberta Smith at the Brooklyn Museum, drawing public attention to her artwork. |
| September 2014 | Emma Sulkowicz begins her performance art piece 'Carry That Weight', carrying her personal mattress around Columbia University campus to denounce her unreported rape, generating significant controversy and support from activists. |
| 2013 | The Hayward Gallery in London hosted a retrospective of Ana Mendieta's artwork, further solidifying her legacy in performance art and related artistic practices. |
| 2013 | Tehching Hsieh created 'The Nine Confinements' or 'The Deprivation of Liberty', a conceptual endurance artwork exploring themes of restricted freedom. |
| 2012 | The Tanks at Tate Modern were opened, becoming the first dedicated spaces for performance, film, and installation in a major modern and contemporary art museum. |
| July 21 2012 | The court extended Pussy Riot members' preventive prison by six months. The group was recognized as political prisoners by the Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners. |
| July 5 2012 | Formal charges were filed against Pussy Riot with a 2800-page accusation, and the group was given until July 9 to prepare their defense. |
| March 16 2012 | Yekaterina Samutsévitch, previously interrogated as a witness, was arrested and accused in connection with the Pussy Riot protest. |
| March 3 2012 | Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot were arrested by Russian authorities and accused of vandalism, initially denying group membership and starting a hunger strike. |
| February 21 2012 | Pussy Riot members entered the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow, performing a protest song and dance against Vladímir Putin's re-election, titled 'Virgin Mary, put Putin Away'. |
| March 14 2010 | The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) held a major retrospective of Marina Abramović's work, featuring over twenty pieces primarily from 1960-1980, with many re-enacted by young artists from multiple nationalities. |
| March 14 2010 | Marina Abramović performed 'The Artist is Present', a 726-hour and 30-minute static, silent performance where she sat immobile in MoMA's atrium, inviting spectators to sit opposite her. The performance attracted celebrities like Björk, Orlando Bloom, and James Franco. |
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