Artnet

Performance Optimisation: Are Algorithms Changing Performance Art?

You could tell Göksu Kunak’s performance was beginning because blue light started flickering against the faces of a shadowy mass of guests pulling out their phones. Soon after, the Turkish performance ...
Inside Higher Ed

Performance art as therapy, self-expression and a path to empowerment.

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.
The Dartmouth

Local artists create sound-based performance art

With support from the Artist-in-Residence Program at the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park in Woodstock, Vt., artists Ellen Smith Ahern and Menghan Wang have collaborated to create ...
The New York Times

At This Architectural Gem, an Artist Was Present. Horses, Too.

The performance artist Marina Abramovic celebrated the announcement of a new cultural center in a private home designed by the famed Mexican architect Luis Barragán. Marina Abramovic, seated, read ...
Observer

Performance Artist Philippe Petit On Passion, Taking Risks and His Life On the Wire

Philippe Petit announcing TOWERING!! at Three World Trade Center earlier this month. Photo by Jared Siskin/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images Petit will mark the 50th anniversary of that daring feat, ...

Kochi Biennale showstopper Marina Abramović, a pioneer in performance art, brings with her stories of endurance and power of reinvention

In 2010, when visitors entered a large hall at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and encountered Serbian artist Marina ...
CNN

Please touch: An unusual nude performance is restaged decades after artist’s death

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, ...