Pace Gallery is teaming up with Art Agency Partners (AAP), a division of Sotheby’s, to represent the estate of the boundary-pushing artist Vito Acconci. The arrangement is relatively new territory for ...

Vito Acconci in his Dumbo studio space. Its contents are now the subject of a legal dispute. Photo: Justin Lane/The New York Times/Redux Vito Acconci in his Dumbo studio space. Its contents are now ...

Maria Acconci, the wife of Vito Acconci, is planning a center dedicated to the late artist’s archives and work, artnet News can report. The artist, who died this morning at age 77, played a central ...

In the work Claim from 1971, artist Vito Acconci sat blindfolded, positioned at the base of a narrow stairwell in a gallery, wildly swinging a metal pipe. The viewer was left with the uncomfortable ...

“Vito Acconci: Thinking Space,” which recently opened at the Middlebury College Museum of Art, is as much an act of atonement as an art show. It chronicles what has to be one of the creepiest ...

American architect and artist Vito Acconci has died at the age of 77 as the result of a stroke. A visionary performance and installation artist in his early career, Acconci turned to architecture and ...

When I visited Vito Acconci last year at his studio in Dumbo, Brooklyn, the artist known as the Godfather of Transgression lamented that his legacy would be the breakthrough performance art works, ...

It’s often said that nowhere else is the provocateur more richly rewarded than in the art world, but even there provocation is a game for the young. Maurizio Cattelan, who enraged the Milanese with ...

Installation view of VITO ACCONCI: WHERE ARE WE NOW (WHO ARE WE ANYWAY?), 1976 at MoMA PS1, 2016 (image courtesy Acconci Studio and MoMA PS1, photo by Pablo Enriquez) Acconci was born in 1940 in the ...

Vito Acconci died last week at the age of 77. He was best known for intense performance-art provocations that skirted interpersonal boundaries: public–private, consensual–nonconsensual, real world–art ...