If you missed the first iteration of Performa, the performance-art biennial, in 2005, it's back, and perhaps weirder than ever. A pretty high bar, since the last go-around featured artist Marina Abramovic's masturbating for hours beneath a false floor in the Guggenheim, the Finnish Screaming Men's Choir behaving as their name suggests, and Francis Alys commissioning a striptease in super slo-mo. Cindy Sherman liked it so much she declared it "the new black." Will you?

The second installment of New York’s performance-art biennial is here— what’s worth trekking out of your way for.

Three megashows to see this week on upper Fifth Avenue.

Two promising contemporary Dutch artists make their local solo debuts, just in time to honor their forebear at the Met.

A portrait gallery of ten of the most promising New York artists to have emerged from the boom.

Duchamp’s “ready made” gets a makeover—twice over.

Sometimes a wreck can be as compelling as a well-kept beauty.

Chelsea can wait: Here’s what not to miss at artHarlem’s third annual Harlem Open Artist Studio Tour on October 6 and 7.

Reinvigorating two of Pop’s best-known motifs.

In Chelsea, things grow darker well before daylight saving time ends.