Third Space Art Foundation presents multi-artist program engaging the 1922 exhibition during Biennale preview week ...

The Museum of Contemporary Art has announced its 2026 exhibition schedule, a combination of bold commissions, collaborations and collection-focused presentations that traverse performance, ...

Artistic styles exist only in retrospect. While many of their defining characteristics are formulated in manifestos by pioneering artists, a style can’t be fully understood until it has become a thing ...

This studio course explores interdisciplinary approaches to performance and their application to contemporary puppetry. Using the unique and contemporary language of object, gesture, and story, the ...

Portland Institute for Contemporary Arts’ Time-Based Art Festival grew into more than a local tradition in its 20-plus-year run. It’s an institution for the city’s visual and performance art community ...

Cover -- The Performing Observer -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Original Sources of Publication -- Preface: The Performing ...

Performance art is not for everyone. Even as symbolic movements, seeing the artist’s body intimate acts of self-inflicted violence, humiliation, or sex are always challenging — even for the willing ...

Video still from Christophe Chassol’s “BIG SUN” (2014) in ‘EN MAS’: Carnival and Performance Art of the Caribbean’ at the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans (all photos by the author for ...

Performance art is a time-based art form that can include acting, poetry, music, dance, and painting. In this course, the body will be considered as both subject and material, central to the making ...