CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Cleveland Museum of Art is making a strong case that its performing arts programming deserves to be considered a destination in its own right. The museum’s 2026-27 Performing ...

Video still from Christophe Chassol’s “BIG SUN” (2014) in ‘EN MAS’: Carnival and Performance Art of the Caribbean’ at the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans (all photos by the author for ...

Steven Durland at the launch of High Performance: A 2-Year Conference (2025–2027) at the 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica on January 31, 2026 (photo Monica Orozco, courtesy Performance Art ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since 2023, Australian architect Bianca Censori has become a global sensation for her body, slaying sheer fits alongside her famous rapper husband. The enigmatic icon has barely spoken out, however.

What if one of the most commanding performance art events of the 21st century had never happened? What if a naysaying curator had quashed a performance that drew some 1,500 people, some of whom spent ...

Activist avant-garde artists have historically ignored national boundaries as well as aesthetic ones, taking regular people to be their audience and any subject or material under the sun to be ...