To label art “dangerous” has signaled many things: It’s bad for your brain, bad for your body, bad for your soul, transgressive, subversive, fun, shocking, exciting, enticing, hateful.

It’s a quotation attributed to the late great American composer, musician and bandleader, Duke Ellington. “Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you ...

If there is one artist who has brought performance into the artistic mainstream, it is Marina Abramovic. For more than 50 years, since the beginning of her career in Belgrade in the early 1970s ...