The best Abramović publications, from an intimate memoir to a collection of the artist’s aphorisms—selected by the curator ...

Performance art originated in the early 20th century as a radical break from more traditional art, focusing on the body and lived experience rather than static objects. Emerging from movements like ...

You could tell Göksu Kunak’s performance was beginning because blue light started flickering against the faces of a shadowy mass of guests pulling out their phones. Soon after, the Turkish performance ...

From Yoko Ono’s conceptual bodily performances to Natacha Stolz’s SpaghettiOs exhibition that flummoxed the netizens of the early aughts, performance art is equal parts avant-garde, action-oriented, ...

LOS ANGELES — There’s nothing funny about art. Writing art criticism is a serious endeavor. But at some point, the performance of professionalism in the art world just started to feel like one big ...

Let’s say that one definition of performance art is behavior that’s been framed in some way to make us bestow meanings on the behavior. Yeah, I know, that’s a definition so squishy you could use it to ...

William Pope.L performing “Eating the Wall Street Journal” (2000) at The Sculpture Center, New York, 2000. (image courtesy the artist, photo by Lydia Grey) “Be African-American. Be very African ...

She later brings together three themes central to her work and performance art in general in the manifesto, “Performance art is experience – shared time and space and actions between people.” The ...

Performance artist Sara Kraft makes mesmerizing art of big issues. Her latest work, “HyperReal,” which receives its world premiere today through Saturday at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, is an ...

In mid-March 2020, performance artist-playwright Kristina Wong was midway through the second live show of a national tour when all of the students in the college auditorium where she was performing ...