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Russian Political Performance Artist Pavlensky Applies For Asylum In France

Russian Political Performance Artist Pavlensky Applies For Asylum In France

by News Desk | Jan 18, 2017 | News

The Russian performance artist Petr or Pyotr Pavlensky best known for nailing his scrotum to Red Square and his partner have fled the country after being accused of “violent actions of a sexual nature” The pair were questioned for seven hours before being...

Pyotr Pavlensky Banned From Competition For Russia’s Top Art Prize

by News Desk | Feb 21, 2016 | News

The Russian performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky best known for nailing his scrotum to Red Square and sewing up his lips, in protest to government censorship, has been banned from the competition for Russia’s top art prize, the ‘Innovatsiya’ (Innovation). This has...

Artist Pyotr Pavlensky Detention Upheld After Rejecting Bail In Moscow

by News Desk | Dec 4, 2015 | News

The detention of the conceptual artist Pyotr Pavlensky, best known for nailing his scrotum to Red Square has been upheld. 31 year old Pavlensky has been charged with vandalism after he set alight  the entrance to Russia’s security service headquarters,(the...

Pussy Riot Protest To Fictional Russian President On House Of Cards

by News Desk | Mar 3, 2015 | News

Members of the Russian art-punk protest group Pussy Riot  Nadezhda “Nadya” Tolokonnikova and Maria “Masha” Alyokhina appeared on Season 3 of House of Cards during a dinner scene at the White House, where they verbally made a stand at a...

Russian Performance Artist Cuts Off Earlobe As Political Protest

by News Desk | Oct 22, 2014 | News

The extreme performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky created a storm in Russia last November by nailing his scrotum to the cobblestones of Moscow’s Red Square, he did this to denounce the political indifference of modern Russian society – the artist is at it...
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