Ulay, Daring Performance Artist Who Channeled Postwar Europe’s Anxieties, Is Dead at 76

Ulay, whose boundary-pushing performances tapped into the tensions that pervaded postwar Europe—often through scenarios that seemed as though they could at any moment erupt into violence—has died at 76. He had been diagnosed with lymphatic cancer.
Since the early 1970s, Ulay created performances and photographs that made frequent use of his own body. Having worked collaboratively for more than a decade with Marina Abramović, his former partner and currently the world’s mos