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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

My memory finally caught up with the ephemera of a familiar artist when I went to go see Katya Grokhovsky’s show Bodybeautiful at Galerie Protégé. I first saw Grokhovsky perform earlier this year at ...

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 ...

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 ...

Performance artist extraordinaire Kristina Wong is one of six recipients of the Doris Duke Artist Awards, the largest national prize dedicated exclusively to artists in contemporary dance, jazz and ...

Cornered in a part of Downtown Los Angeles swamped in contemporary art museums and performance centers, REDCAT has become a ...

Under the leadership of director Jessica Morgan, New York’s Dia Art Foundation has been steadily broadening its purview beyond the largely white, male creators of the canonical works of Minimalist and ...

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 ...