The event marks one of the most relevant and timely exchanges we’ve seen between the market, the artist, and the public. But you may not have considered the full significance of the act. It also ...

It’s been nearly a year of screen-based art viewing for most of us, but over the summer, some lucky viewers were able to catch a glimpse of in-person performance art during a brief moment of respite ...

Laurel Nakadate, "Lucky Tiger #151" (2009). Chromogenic color print with ink fingerprints. 4 x 6" (10.2 x 15.2 cm) MoMA photography curator Roxana Marcoci knows that we are experiencing a “renaissance ...

On a Saturday afternoon, visitors to the Museum of Contemporary Art in L.A. are waiting up to 45 minutes to see Chinese artist Xu Zhen’s living sculptures in the museum’s north gallery. Under the ...

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

Dubious of performance art? There’s a reason. Dubious of performance art? Break into a cold sweat when you realize it’s about to begin? There’s a reason. Here we present you with a brief history of ...

Thirty eight years ago today, the French high-wire artist, Phillipe Petit, performed what is quite possibly the greatest act of performance art by walking a high-wire between the Twin Towers in New ...

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.

For the last two years, Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors has been immersed in art, exploring the intersection of performance and activism while earning her MFA from USC’s Roski School of ...

What is performance art? It’s not quite the performance of theater, nor even improv. It doesn’t consist of a finished piece that can hang on one’s wall or be propped on a stand. An academic might ...

Dubious of performance art? Break into a cold sweat when you realize it’s about to begin? Dubious of performance art? Break into a cold sweat when you realize it’s about to begin? There’s a reason.