Performa, a biennial of new visual art performance, returns to New York for its third edition at venues throughout the city for three weeks in November. Eleven new commissions and six New York premieres are featured in the three-week program, while the biennial kicks off with a unique food event that's billed as an installation-cum-happening. Blurring the boundaries between visual art, music, dance, and other media, more than 150 international artists are participating in more than110 events at an array of public and private sites.
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MoMA's contemporary exhibition outpost P.S.1 kicked off its season opener under a sharp autumn sun, all the better to highlight the location (a former school in Long Island City, Queens), the architecture (especially a Bedouin tent structure by MOD design in the courtyard), and crowd (a mix of fashion and art types ranging from Pratt students to stylist and editor Camilla Nickerson). Current offerings in the alternative space come from the likes of photographer Robert Bergman, installation artist Chitra Ganesh, and multimedia stage artist William Kentridge — though the main event is surely 1969, a survey of modern art from MoMA's permanent collection that was produced in the final year of the swinging '60s.
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Published Thursday, October 29, 2009 |
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