Performance art originated in the early 20th century as a radical break from more traditional art, focusing on the body and lived experience rather than static objects. Emerging from movements like ...

Much of Instagram’s video content is organized around transformation—the virtual magic of the before-and-after and clips that show cause and effect. A person makes pasta from scratch in 20 seconds via ...

A museum veteran and a financier are planning Canyon, an organization on the Lower East Side that will focus on video, audio and performance art when it opens next year. By Zachary Small At the foot ...

A timeline of the most pivotal moments in the medium’s history. By Julia Halperin “The term ‘performance art’ is a little overused,” admits the curator Klaus Biesenbach, 59. “It’s a bit like how ...

For the last twenty years, as the founding director and chief curator of Performa, RoseLee Goldberg has asked the art establishment and the art curious to keep performance top of mind and to consider ...