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 ...

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 ...

At Dia Beacon, a retrospective looks at the career of Tehching Hsieh, whose yearlong performance art pieces were some of the most grueling the medium has ever seen. At Dia Beacon, a retrospective ...

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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by This year, Frieze New York will offer three pieces by artists who approach performance “in radically different ways.” By Shivani Vora Listen to the ...

Last weekend a group of people were blindfolded and led through a path littered with obstacles while a narrator offered mysterious commentary like “If you speak plainly, you are punished” and “If you ...

How do performance and installation artists make the transition from the structure of school to the chaos and uncertainty of the real world? [nueBox], a nonprofit arts organization, has some ideas.

Charlotte Street has announced the recipients of the 2026 Visual Artist and Generative Performing Artist Awards, honoring the outstanding achievements of Kansas City area contemporary artists.