Performance art originated in the early 20th century as a radical break from more traditional art, focusing on the body and lived experience rather than static objects. Emerging from movements like ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

In his new show, the artist, known for pushing the limits of acceptable behavior in his performance art, carefully, even timidly explores what it means to make transgressive art today. By Travis Diehl ...

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 ...

CHENGDU, China — In a series of eight-hour-long actions titled Puzzling Tracks, Zhou Bin placed an ant on a piece of rice paper. The ant was free to move around the paper, but it was penned in by four ...

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 ...