Body art

Serbian performance artist Marina Abramovic, known for works that push her body and her audience to extreme limits, is these days inviting people to decompress by taking a break from digital overload.

For a retrospective at the Kunsthaus Zurich art museum tracing her 55-year career, Abramovic created a new installation called "Decompression Chamber."

Hitting tattoos is indeed art

Presented below are data from a study of "Trend" commissioned by the Bulgarian newspaper "24 hours", dedicated to the attitudes of Bulgarians towards tattoos. The study was conducted between 12 and 19 January 2022 through a direct semi-standardized interview "face to face" by tablet among 1004 people aged 18+.

Listening to Marina Abramovic at the press conference of her new exhibition in Istanbul, everyone wonders what it takes to be a performance artist. She has been bruised, attacked, has performed with her loved one and done many different acts and performances in her lifetime and is still trying to give her best to the performance art.

Two new fissures opened on Hawaii's Kilauea volcano, hurling bursts of rock and magma with an ear-piercing screech on May 13, threatening nearby homes and prompting authorities to order new evacuations.

New York artist Trina Merry, who specialises in bodypainting, lines her subjects up and photographs them as they appear to blend right into the scenery around them. The backdrops to her eye-catching art include the White House, Freedom Tower, Grand Central Station, the Golden Gate Bridge, and even Ireland’s Giant’s Causeway.

The bride-to-be sits in the middle, wearing a red Ottoman kaftan. Her friends dance around her with slow and graceful movements, carrying candles and singing together an old, traditional song about a bride's fear before she leaves her village.

Renowned artist Marina Abramovic will be at the ancient theatre of Epidaurus on March 28 to film scenes for a documentary on the life of famous soprano Maria Callas.

Abramovic has been in Greece since the beginning of March presenting a new project titled “As One” in collaboration between the Marina Abramović Institute (MAI) and the Greek Cultural Organisation NEON.

With only five days to go to the June 7 parliamentary election, Turkey's main opposition party rang alarm bells about electoral security, suggesting that the election would be "at risk" if no measures are taken. 

The Festival of the Arts in Sofia will be hosted by the Radisson Blu Grand Hotel in Sofia on May 30 and 31. It is set on bringing joy and entertainment to children on their holiday.

They will get the chance of participating in various artistic activities, including workshops for jewelry making, home decoration, ceramics, sweets and paintings.