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, ...

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 ...

Guerrilla Performance by Rob Andrews at English Kills “Maximum Perception: Contemporary Brooklyn Performance” on August 16, 2008 (via flickr.com/hragvartanian) By ...

At around 7 a.m. during his 24-hour performance 'Oysterknife,' Greenberg’s body shut down and he passed out. Miles Greenberg, Admiration Is the Furthest Thing from Understanding (2021) at the Bangkok ...

Performance art has been sellable for decades, but galleries now see new potential in attracting Gen Z collectors. Visitors stand next to an artwork of Félix González-Torres’s 1991 Untitled (Go-Go ...

In 1918, New York City laid claim to 20 Yiddish theaters, with one seating 2,500. Chicago possessed four, Philadelphia three and Baltimore, Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, Los Angeles, Newark and St.

CHENGDU, China — In a series of eight-hour-long actions titled Puzzling Tracks, Zhou Bin placed an ant on a piece of rice paper. The ant was free to move around the paper, but it was penned in by four ...

With support from the Artist-in-Residence Program at the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park in Woodstock, Vt., artists Ellen Smith Ahern and Menghan Wang have collaborated to create ...

S1: Welcome in San Diego. It's Jade Hindman on today's show , a fellowship connecting artist with ancestry. This is KPBS Midday Edition. Connecting our communities through conversation. What does it ...

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 ...