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, ...

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 ...

With his extreme performance art, Tehching Hsieh gave the word endurance new meaning. In retirement, he’s working on cementing his legacy. By Jennie Livingston T’s Art issue looks at the iconoclastic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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In 1974, artist Vincent Trasov ran for mayor of Vancouver under the guise of his performance art persona, Mr. Peanut. Trasov’s character was a symbol of artists and their ambitions, while its name was ...

Florentina Holzinger has become one of Europe’s most talked about performance artists, known for creating productions that challenge audiences both physically and emotionally. The Austrian ...