The art world is crowded, but some voices rise above. In this series, we spotlight 25 emerging artists who have been defining 2025: painters pushing the canvas forward, sculptors reinventing form, ...

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, ...

Marina and in a performer in a tight spot. (via moma.org) The debate surrounding performance art and the rights of artists has started to grow past the original controversy initiated by Marina ...

Did video kill the performance art star? The New York Times asks this question in a post that claims that the constant spectacle of YouTube and social media have trumped performance art’s shock value.

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 ...

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.

Only a peerless performance artist would, and that is Tehching (Sam) Hsieh. In his first-ever retrospective at Dia:Beacon, “Tehching Hsieh: Lifeworks 1978-1999” (on view through 2027) offers a ...

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 ...

A cemetery can be more than a space to pay homage to our loved ones. It can also be a place where we celebrate our aliveness. New York-based performance artist Eiko Otake asks us to consider our ...