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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...