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Performance Art

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Two performers sit on a dark stage illuminated by large glowing red and orange screens, creating an abstract digital environment around them.

How Kay Matschullat’s MAX Is Rewriting the Language of Performance in the Age of Techno Art

In her transdisciplinary Media Art Xploration series, science provides the data that art transforms into sensory and emotional experiences.
By Elisa Carollo
Woman dressed in clown makeup and a cowboy hat hugs a red inflatable sky dancer around her shoulders.

REDCAT’s 22nd NOW Festival Showcased the Breadth of L.A.’s Performance Art Scene

Performance art has a distinct urgency in Los Angeles, a city that is in a perpetual state of rehearsal.
By Mya Ward
A black and white photo of an asian woman sitting in a museum installation

One Fine Show: “Yoko Ono, Music of the Mind” at MCA Chicago

The exhibition makes the case that the artist's influence would have been unavoidable regardless of fame or circumstance.
By Dan Duray
A barefoot woman in a yellow tunic dress sits on her knees before the end of massive train of blue cloth. The cloth is worn by a figure who sits several meters away from her in the background. The woman in yellow bends over the blue cloth as though folding it.

Elia Arce’s ‘No Time to Mourn (An Excerpt)’ Is a Monument to Grief

By Mya Ward
An image shows a group of thirteen women standing barefoot in a field under a cloudy sky, wearing traditional skirts and head coverings while lifting their blouses to expose their chests as one woman kneels in front of them, performing a ritual featured in Balkan Erotic Epic.

Marina Abramovic’s Erotic Epic Spreads Wide (and Displays the Limits of) the Artist’s Psyche

By Adam Robb

Marina Abramović Meets Joseph Beuys: Dialogues of Breath, Gesture and Legacy at Schloss Moyland

By Petra Loho

SCRIBBLE at The Watermill Center: Inside the Hamptons’ Most Surreal Summer Soirée

By Hudson Warm and Christa Terry
Robin Rhode performance-based artwork from 2015, combining drawing and action on a wall.

RoseLee Goldberg On 20 Years of Performa and Why Performance Art Still Matters

By Elisa Carollo
Andrea Fraser, Museum Highlights: A Gallery Talk, 1989 Performance, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, February 5,1,112,18 and 19, 1989

How Andrea Fraser Turned Institutional Critique Into a Lifelong Practice

By Xinyi Ye
A group of performers, dressed in school uniforms and streetwear, pose together on a raised platform, some sitting and some leaning, their detached expressions mirroring the performance’s mood.

Anne Imhof’s ‘DOOM: HOUSE OF HOPE’ Debuts at the Park Avenue Armory to Mixed Reviews

By Christa Terry
Philippe Petit Announces TOWERING!! (50th Anniversary WTC High-Wire Walk)

Performance Artist Philippe Petit On Passion, Taking Risks and His Life On the Wire

By Nadja Sayej
An art installations with dyed silk and other elements

Joan Jonas Brings Her Experimental Video Performance Art to MoMA

By Nadja Sayej
A person wearing a red full-body covering stands in bright blue water

One Fine Show: Anida Yoeu Ali’s Performance Pieces at the Seattle Asian Art Museum

By Dan Duray
A man pours water onto a person wearing a pink top who is trapped in a plastic tube

How Vita Kari Wields Virality as an Artistic Form

By Christa Terry
A musical performance in an intimate space lit by a large globe lamp

Adventures in the Avant-Garde at New York’s The Kitchen

By Payton Selby

Crawling Performance Art Pioneer Pope.L Dies at 68

By Christa Terry
Two women in dresses holding up a shawl to protect themselves from the rain.

A Perfect Storm of Art and Experimentation Descends on the Watermill Center

By Casey Epstein-Gross

Exploring New Sides to Performance Art: “Responding to Site” on Marilyn Arsem

By Elisa Shoenberger

Pussy Riot’s Members Have Been Jailed by the Russian Government for Hooliganism

By Helen Holmes

Artist Danny Cole on Dreams of A Utopia of Creatures and Vandalism

By Laura Pitcher

For the Entrepreneurial Performance Artist Danielle Baskin, the Internet is a Stage

By Amanda Silberling
J'ai Des Sentiments by Kalup Linzy

Kalup Linzy: Identity Politics, COVID-19, and the Future of Performance Art

By Anni Irish

Marina Abramović, Russell Brand to Dispense Wisdom in a Documentary About Anxiety

By Helen Holmes

Marina Abramović Breaks Her Silence on Being Labeled a Satanist

By Helen Holmes
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