The event marks one of the most relevant and timely exchanges we’ve seen between the market, the artist, and the public. But you may not have considered the full significance of the act. It also ...

Across institutions and biennials, project spaces, and even the commercial sector, a turn towards performance is emerging within the contemporary art landscape. Following a slow but steady boil over ...

Laurel Nakadate, "Lucky Tiger #151" (2009). Chromogenic color print with ink fingerprints. 4 x 6" (10.2 x 15.2 cm) MoMA photography curator Roxana Marcoci knows that we are experiencing a “renaissance ...

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.

But there are what he [the artist Terence Koh] calls his “secret performances.” . . . Examples include the time in 2009 when he had the activist and retired actress Bianca Jagger wrap him in bedsheets ...

Man and machine have long shared a complex rapport. Yet, understanding our relation to the world and one another largely depends on an insight into the dynamics between humanity and technology. This ...

All eyes were on Ryan Hawk. The lanky college undergrad asked everyone in the audience of about 40 people scattered around the Bushwick loft to stand and circle him. He began by applying a can of ...

Vito Acconci died last week at the age of 77. He was best known for intense performance-art provocations that skirted interpersonal boundaries: public–private, consensual–nonconsensual, real world–art ...

The Intermedia Art, Writing and Performance (IAWP) unit is an interdisciplinary digital arts and humanities research unit with a practice-based PhD. Faculty investigate past and present forms of ...

On a Saturday afternoon, visitors to the Museum of Contemporary Art in L.A. are waiting up to 45 minutes to see Chinese artist Xu Zhen’s living sculptures in the museum’s north gallery. Under the ...

Dubious of performance art? There’s a reason. Dubious of performance art? Break into a cold sweat when you realize it’s about to begin? There’s a reason. Here we present you with a brief history of ...