A time-lapse video of artist Sun K. Kwak creating "Untying Space_Asian Art Museum, SF." Experience this work in person at the Asian Art Museum during the "Phantoms of Asia" exhibition (on view from May 18-September 2, 2012). For more information: http://www.asianart.org/phantoms

A poetry slam was held in the exhibition Face Jugs: Art and Ritual in 19th Century South Carolina at the Milwaukee Art Museum on June 24, 2012. The exhibition includes 23 early African American-made Edgefield, SC face jugs, interpreting their connection to Africa. This video, filmed by Dan Ollman, features the winner of the poetry slam, Darian Wilson. It also features two poets, Destinny Fletcher and Denzel Taylor, both of whom performed powerful poems inspired by the face jugs.

Experience the premiere of a performance created directly in response to 100 Acres by New York-based artist Rebecca Davis, whose choreography was performed at the 2011 Venice Biennale. With the theme of "making and unmaking," Davis's work brings visual, tactile presences to the ephemeral medium of performance.

Performance 13: On Line/Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
January 12-16, 2011
In conjunction with the exhibition On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century
The Museum of Modern Art, November 21, 2010–February 7, 2011

Video directed by Ben Coccio. Cinematography by Cal Robertson. Produced by Professor Bright Films

© 2011 The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Korean-born New York based artist Sun K. Kwak makes the invisible visible using a surprisingly simple medium: black masking tape. Through a process infused with an element of performance, Kwak channels surrounding energy to manifest a movement of lines, liberating the space and transforming it into a new pictorial reality. For the "Phantoms of Asia" exhibition at the Asian Art Museum (on view from May 18-September 2, 2012), Kwak creates a site-specific installation for the museum's North Court, which will not be seen again after the exhibition closes.

On January 20, 2012, artist Ben Kinsley staged the first performance of his work 'The End is Nigh/A New Beginning is Imminent' at MOCA Cleveland. The piece consists of two actors, dressed as soapbox-style street preachers. Each actor broadcasts pre-composed messages with megaphones. One preacher shouts about the end times while the other yells messages about new beginnings. The preachers occasionally hand out zines containing these messages to unsuspecting passers-by.

This talk is a series of discussions between Biennale collaborators, including gymnast Dave Durante, choreographer Rebecca Davis, composer Jonathan Bailey, and IMA staff members. The IMA has recently acquired Body in Flight (Delta) by the artists Allora & Calzadilla, one of the six new works featured in the U.S. Pavilion during the Venice Biennale. The sculpture will be placed in Efroymson for six weeks and will serve as the site for regularly scheduled performances by local gymnasts.

Often referred to as the Olympics of contemporary art, the Venice Biennale (La Biennale di Venezia) has, for over a century, been one of the most prestigious cultural institutions in the world. Since its founding in 1895, it has promoted contemporary culture, new ideas, and artistic trends through major international exhibitions. The 54th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale took place June 4 – November 27, 2011.