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, ...

A longtime editor of High Performance magazine in Los Angeles, Durland maintained his own practice while advocating for the ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Let me preface this by saying I absolutely adore Frank Ocean and have “Solo” on as I write this. But, hate and love often fall close to one another, the through line being the passion and deep emotion ...