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, ...
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 — 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 ...
In 1918, New York City laid claim to 20 Yiddish theaters, with one seating 2,500. Chicago possessed four, Philadelphia three and Baltimore, Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, Los Angeles, Newark and St.
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 ...
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 ...
A longtime editor of High Performance magazine in Los Angeles, Durland maintained his own practice while advocating for the ...
In mid-March 2020, performance artist-playwright Kristina Wong was midway through the second live show of a national tour when all of the students in the college auditorium where she was performing ...
Performance artist Sara Kraft makes mesmerizing art of big issues. Her latest work, “HyperReal,” which receives its world premiere today through Saturday at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, is an ...