‘My knees are as strong as Megan Thee Stallion!’ What 20 celebrities learned at Glastonbury 2024
Cut your toenails, play bingo – and drink rum instead of lager. Performers including Marina Abramović, Sugababes, Don Letts and Paloma Faith share their tips
‘Give unconditional love to each other’: artist Marina Abramović silences Glastonbury for seven minutes
Serbian performance artist tells Pyramid stage crowd to confront cyclical violence in thousands-strong ‘collaboration’
Can Marina Abramović get Glastonbury to be silent for seven minutes?
Serbian artist hopes Friday’s ‘public intervention’ will make festival goers reflect on the current state of the world
March 2024
Adelaide festival 2024: giant whalebones pierce the sunset for ‘transformative’ opening night
The ambitious opening statement is taking over the city’s most popular beach, ahead of a festival that marries big names with moving stories of Country
February 2024
Marina Abramović on Australia, backlash and ‘the encounter that changed my life’
The acclaimed artist handpicked eight names for a showcase in Adelaide. One recently made headlines – and another was surprised to be chosen
January 2024
Nude artist sues New York’s Museum of Modern Art over sexual assault claims
Marina Abramović selling moisturiser? I don’t know whether to laugh or cry
Emma Beddington
November 2023
‘They’ll see she was extraordinary’: Callas centenary inspires new generation to find the real Maria
Films, shows and a new museum seek to capture the charisma of the great soprano
The week in classical: Jephtha; 7 Deaths of Maria Callas; Perfection, of a Kind: Britten vs Auden – review
Handel’s majestic final oratorio holds its own in Oliver Mears’s searching new production; Marina Abramović channels Maria Callas; and a well-told tale of when Britten met Auden
I loved the Marina Abramović show – but the most shocking moment came in the giftshop
Adrian Chiles
The work of the grandmother of performance art is intense, moving and baffling. Nonetheless, I wasn’t prepared for the wares on sale, writes Adrian Chiles
October 2023
Why is no one else worried about being sandwiched between naked people?
Anita Chaudhuri
Germ warfare season is upon us. I, for one, don’t plan to get ill by squeezing past a pair of models at the Marina Abramović exhibition
September 2023
Intimacy with strangers: Marina Abramović puts the squeeze on
The great women's art bulletin
Marina Abramović’s shocking Rhythm 0 performance shows why we still cannot trust people in power
Marina Abramović review – the artist is strangely absent
Going out, staying in
From Expend4bles to Marina Abramović: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment
Marina Abramović has broken a 255-year-old glass ceiling. Why did it take so long?
Hannah Jane Parkinson
Marina Abramović’s RA retrospective is terrifying and vital
‘I wake up happy! I’m singing all day’: Marina Abramović on pain, love – and her recent brush with death
July 2023
The big idea
The big idea: why you shouldn’t always try to live in the moment
Being present is a popular life hack – but where does that leave nostalgia, fantasy and rumination?
December 2022
2023 culture preview
The best art and design shows to visit in 2023
Queer Renaissance sculptor Donatello, Marina Abramović, David Hockney and a long-delayed mega-museum in Manchester – your art-design to-do list for the year ahead
