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, ...

The performance artist was charged with property damage and theft after staging an intervention at the Centre Pompidou-Metz in early May. (photo courtesy Deborah de Robertis) Already a member? Sign in ...

Twice a week this spring, a nude performance artist sits inside a small wooden box in a New York gallery waiting to be touched. Through holes on each side of the box, visitors’ arms reach in and out, ...

New Bedford artist Mason Terra spent 24 hours in a transparent box creating art from prompts submitted by visitors and online participants. The performance explored the intersection of human ...

Two women were arrested by French police on Monday at the Centre Pompidou-Metz after they targeted The Origin of the World (1866) by Gustave Courbet, a provocative painting centered on a nude torso ...

RoseLee Goldberg of New York’s Performa has long encouraged visual artists to take the leap of translating their ideas into real time and space.