Marina Abramović

 Huang Yong Ping, Serpent d’Océan , 2012, Aluminium, inox, 120 m  © ADAGP Huang Yong Ping. Courtesy the artist and Le Voyage à Nantes 

Huang Yong Ping, Serpent d’Océan, 2012, Aluminium, inox, 120 m 

Photo: archives kamel mennour © ADAGP Huang Yong Ping. Courtesy the artist, Le Voyage à Nantes, and kamel mennour, Paris/London

By Daniel Baumann, Folakunle Oshun, Alisa Prudnikova, Ella Plevin, Joanna Kamm, Hou Hanru, Jay Sanders, Rita Vitorelli, Kolja Reichert, Diana Campbell Betancourt

 Marina Abramović, Crystal Cinema

Marina Abramović, Crystal Cinema

 Photo: G etty Images

Photo: Getty Images

The buzz in the build-up had all been about Caitlyn Jenner — attending, or possibly walking the catwalk. In the end she didn't come to the show — this Givenchy show, where fashion and art would celebrate their latest reunion. The BFF‘s Marina Abramović and designer Ricardo Tisci constructed a favela-inspired setting to combine runway show and art performance. Our writer Dean Kissick was not amused.

 "There and Back“, Skånes Konstförening, Malmö 2010

"There and Back“, Skånes Konstförening, Malmö 2010

Portrait Christian Falsnaes

Yesterday we published an interview in which Marina Abramović accuses the rapper Jay-Z of breaking an agreement. Abramović gave Jay-Z permission to adapt her piece “The Artist is Present” (originally performed as part of her 2010 retrospective at MoMA) for a music video of

Crystal Cinema I, Marina Abramovic

It was one of the biggest meetings of art and pop culture in the last ten years. But was it also a game changer? And what were the consequences for the participants? When Jay-Z adapted Marina Abramović's performance "The Artist is Present" (2010) for his video "Picasso Baby" at New York's Pace Gallery in 2013, many wondered: how did Abramović end up here? New York’s art scene was the audience, with Abramović herself as the star. Looking back, Marina wonders this too. At her recent retrospective at SESC Pompeia, São Paulo, she openly discussed the drawbacks of having replaced the physical, face-to-face encounter with the camera, and having become a brand.

 Cashmere Sweeter: Dan Bodan, die große Berliner Hoffnung  

Cashmere Sweeter: Dan Bodan, Berlin’s next big hope

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