Athi-Patra Ruga is a hastily ascending young South African artist whose work comfortably straddles the divides between fashion, performance, and photography. Dressed in a dizzying array of costumes, most notably his “Injibhabha outfit” (one Ruga himself has been known to call his “Afro Womble” attire), Ruga inserts himself, or rather the characters he is playing, […]

Within the cavernous, pristine interior of the atrium at the Museum of Modern Art, one witnesses an act of both extreme simplicity and unrelenting fervor. Marina Abramović sits at a long wooden table, donning a gown of thick midnight blue fabric; her countenance bears signs of intensity and sheer exhaustion, dually wavering between moments of […]