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Films, shows and a new museum seek to capture the charisma of the great soprano

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

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

With murderous cameos from Willem Dafoe and live renditions of arias by a clutch of sopranos, the performance artist pays somewhat tame homage to the extraordinary singer

The world’s foremost performance artist is no stranger to an enraptured audience, but after cheating death it’s taking on new meaning for Marina Abramović, whose UK opera premiere raises the bar in a long, salient career. Richard Godwin meets her backstage

The first Adelaide Festival with new artistic director Ruth Mackenzie brings work from big name global artists to the city.

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

The artist’s Royal Academy retrospective revives her 1977 live work in which visitors pass through a naked couple in a doorway – and reveal something of themselves

In 1974, Marina Abramović performed a career-defining work at a small experimental gallery in Naples, Italy. The Serbian artist stood naked next to a table on which she had arranged 72 objects associated with pleasure and pain. They included a bunch of grapes, a jar of honey, a feather, a…

In 1974, Marina Abramović dared an audience to use chains, lipstick and knives on her body – and their willingness to abuse her revealed frightening truths about misogyny