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.

Guerrilla Performance by Rob Andrews at English Kills “Maximum Perception: Contemporary Brooklyn Performance” on August 16, 2008 (via flickr.com/hragvartanian) By ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Robin Rhode, Erwartung. Photo © Paula Court. Courtesy of Performa. Performa is one of those singular New York institutions that accurately define the intersection of ...

A timeline of the most pivotal moments in the medium’s history. By Julia Halperin “The term ‘performance art’ is a little overused,” admits the curator Klaus Biesenbach, 59. “It’s a bit like how ...

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, ...

On your way home from work, you get off the train and there is a giant puppet show featuring a man fighting a puppet hydra in an empty parking lot. Or you meander into Wicker Park, the actual park, ...