Performance

The man hit the legendary performance artist over the head with his portrait at an exhibition opening in Florence

The latest art world silliness: Deborah de Robertis charged with ‘sexual exhibitionism’; Beckham’s painting debut; was the Mona Lisa sick?

At the National Theatre of Wales, a performance alive with wild, tactile descriptions compels comparison between the eczema-sufferer and writer

Commemorating the 100th anniversary of WWI, The Head & The Load at Tate Modern makes incomprehension the work’s guiding theme

With work in the Liverpool Biennial and ICA Philadelphia, the Seoul-based artist reanimates an ancient Korean musical system

Nods to the game in World Cup celebrations show how dance has gone viral – but unwittingly instrumentalized for commercial interests

At Kunstverein Düsseldorf (and on WeChat), the artist creates personalised horoscopes for a kaleidoscopic array of characters

Watching Sharon Hayes and Evan Ifekoya pay homage to the late artist at Camden Arts Centre and remembering his ‘structured anarchy’

An exhibition of performances at Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, unfolds the rituals of sexual encounters

With a new performance work for Manifesta 12 in Palermo, the Amsterdam-based artist explores a state of continuous partial attention

In further art world madness: French performance artist shuts himself inside Paleolithic lion-man; Argentian artist duo enrage Catholics with bloody Jesus cake

Bullshit jobs, the ‘heiress’ who conned the art world, and the gender politics of children’s books: what to read this weekend

In a climate of perma-outrage has live art self-censored to live entertainment?

Post-Grenfell, mid-Windrush and pre-Brexit, a day-long forum in London invited artists and organizations to re-imagine the communities we live in

The legendary performance artists will partner up again to detail their tumultuous relationship in a new book

Dressed in elaborately ornamental costumes, in THANK YOU/THANK YOU the artists movements as they process through the fair become sound pieces. Presented by Company Gallery for ASSEMBLY, curated by Adrienne Edwards at Frieze New York 2018

New curated sections, pioneering performance art, Black activism: key themes from next week’s fair selected by the Financial Times

Harvey, who founded the annual counterculture gathering in the Nevada desert, suffered a stroke earlier in the month

Laments for the dead are performed in a secret crypt beneath Islington Green

Ahead of her presentation at Centre Pompidou in June, the artist and choreographer talks about slowness, detail and the anti-spectacular