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Performance Art

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A black-and-white performance still shows a seated woman in a slip while another person uses scissors to cut fabric from her clothing.

Yoko Ono Has Outlasted the Scorn, the Caricatures and the Blame

"Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind" at The Broad in L.A. brings together decades of work that predated and anticipated many of the ideas now central to contemporary art.
By Jordan Riefe

Performa’s Broadway Benefit Brought Fresh Magic to an Old Format

Fifty artists gathered at New York's Town Hall theater for one unforgettable vaudeville-inspired evening of live performance art.
By Jasmine Lobe
A close-up shows a woman with smeared red lipstick holding a large patterned snake wrapped tightly around her neck and shoulders, her expression tense and intimate.

Marina Abramovic Brings Psychodrama to Copenhagen’s Cisternerne

We spoke with the artist about her striking overlaps with Maria Callas, how museums must better evolve to meet the needs of the public and her utterly surprising guilty pleasure.
By Sarah Moroz

In a Legacy Obsessed Cultural Landscape, a New Experimental Art Space Is Embracing Ephemerality

By Christa Terry
A middle-aged man with short gray hair stands in front of a white gallery wall covered with framed panels of text and figurative imagery related to Caravaggio and personal narrative.

John Kelly Ponders the Day His Art Nearly Crippled Him

By Fred Voon
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

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

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

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
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