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 ...

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 — With her billowing costumes, shaved head, dramatic makeup, and pet “art rat” Tatti Wattles on her shoulder, the internationally renowned performance artist Rachel Rosenthal filled up ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Philippe Petit announcing TOWERING!! at Three World Trade Center earlier this month. Photo by Jared Siskin/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images Petit will mark the 50th anniversary of that daring feat, ...

“I'm not trying to make something that the mainstream is comfortable with,” says the playwright of documentary ‘Taylor Mac's 24-Decade History of Popular Music’ HBO Drag performance artist, thespian ...